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Dr. T. A. Chapman on the 



tions is that the passages I have quoted above from my 

 previous paper on the species, are quite correct, if, by 

 " hatching," one means the emergence of the young larvae 

 from the pupa-case and cocoon of their mother. But as 

 the true meaning of the word is emergence from the egg 

 they are all wrong. Hinc illie lachrymx, though I rejoice 

 more over the correction than I weep over the error. 

 The actual facts are that in all the species the newly - 



Fig. 1. 



hatched larvae are very similar; in all, their first pious 

 duty is to eat the remains of their mother. 



Having done this, H. pcnella and H. canalensis perforate 

 the maternal pupa-case with various openings and make 

 their escape. An examination of the empty pupa-case 

 they have left shows it quite clean and containing only a 

 very few threads of silk entangling a small but varying 

 number of small greyish pellets, which I take to be urates 

 or some similar effete product of the dead mother. In 

 H. paradoim, for some reason, the procedure is different, 

 probably because the mother is much larger than in the 



