396 Mr. C. O. Oh. eee Five Years’ Observations 
probable that it was in the carton mass. It 7s a pity that 
the nest was smashed, but the only consolation is that 
had it not been smashed I shouldn’t have found them. 
Any future ant-hill smashing that I do will be done most 
cautiously. Since then I have probed about half a dozen 
similar ones, but only to find, besides the Termites, colonies 
of Odontomachus haematodes. But, after all, one can hardly 
expect such finds every day of the week, and I had to wait 
a long time for Teratoneura ! 
When the ants carried off the pupae and larvae I carefully 
broke off bits of the carton to see what they had done with 
them all. I had “allowed” them about half a dozen 
pupae. I found them all carefully massed together round 
a dried-out bit of Termite “ bread.” This led me at first 
to suggest that as the food of the larva, but on thinking it 
over | rather doubt it. I am more inclined to think, 
after looking at the extremely small heads of the larvae, 
that they are fed by the ants, unless the entire absence of 
ant larvae be accounted for by the Lycaenids having 
devoured their ova. That also I doubt. The larvae with 
glands, as far as I have seen, and I think Lamborn’s results 
show the same, are generally phytophagous, anthophagous 
or suck sugary secretions. Camponotus maculatus I do not 
think is ever carnivorous, but haunts flowers in search of 
nectaries, leaf-glands and such-like, and has a_ perfectly 
distressing ‘“‘scent”’ for one’s sugar stores. It is quite 
likely that they innocently feed the Lycaenids by the 
ordinary process of regurgitation, and the Lycaenid perhaps 
does redeem itself from the slur of parasitism by a little 
return through the medium of the Guenée gland. An 
examination of the contents of the alimentary canal might 
throw some light on the subject (see p. 492). 
Agege. 
Sept. 17, 1917.—Seven emerged to-day or rather eight, 
the eighth being malformed. I have been most unlucky 
with malformations, having now about half a dozen. 
Several more pupae have simply blackened and perished, 
but till now I have fourteen practically perfect specimens, 
and I may with luck finish up with two dozen. It is very 
sad to lose so many, but I’m afraid it couldn’t be helped. 
Anyhow, I don’t suppose, since Lamborn’s wonderful 
Euliphyra case [Trans. Ent. Soc., 1913, p. 450], so many 
butterflies have been bred out of a nest of ants. And of 
