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I had noticed a fairly large Lycaenid flymg around, it 
suddenly entered my mind for no considered reason, I 
must confess, that they were Lycaenids. It was simply an 
inspiration. Almost simultaneously I saw the agitated 
Camponotus endeavouring to carry them to safety, and 
further I saw a newly emerged Lycaenid appear from, 
well nowhere, but I felt sure 1t was one of them. I saw 
another and I think a third as I hastened off to get tins, 
and warned off all labourers from the scene on pain of 
execution. I didn’t get any of the butterflies and not a 
few of the pupae were badly damaged, but, with the 
exception of perhaps half a dozen or more that were hope- 
lessly smashed, I took them all in and afterwards found I 
had brought in forty-one in all! I’m certain there weren't 
less than fifty pupae im that nest. I could do nothing to 
restore it and could only search the ruins cautiously for 
survivors of the wreck. I had great difficulty in separating 
the ants from the pupae. ‘Two I discovered really by means 
of the ants. I saw two worker Camponotus trying to 
penetrate into the loose earth. There was no visible 
opening, but I thought there might be one beneath, and 
cautiously cleared away the particles of soil. About half 
an inch below I came on the two pupae. The ants rushed 
at them and proceeded to extricate them. I appropriated 
the lot. But I must go back a bit. The Termitary was 
of the carton type, part of it old and abandoned, and I am 
pretty certain had become secondarily tenanted by the 
Camponotus, though I couldn’t definitely find the centre of 
the nest. There were neither larvae nor pupae of the 
Camponotus, only workers and the huge soldiers. But I 
abstracted a large mass of the carton nest and on it put a 
few pupae. Ants already occupied the carton material. 
The pupae were immediately seized and carried out of 
sight into the mass. I searched most carefully for Lycaenid 
larvae and found two, in loose soil. These also were 
eagerly carried inside the carton mass. The larvae were 
apparently replete and resting, prior to pupation. I could 
detect no glands nor tubercles, though, now they are in 
spirit, there is evident a slightly pigmented prominence 
in the region of the Guenée gland. The larvae are, to say 
the least of it, very grub-like, which is accentuated by their 
meagre pigmentation. The only colour was a faint pink, 
so faint as to be almost white. Where they may have been 
located in the original nest I cannot say. I think it most 
