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Mr. G. J. Arrow on a 



larvse being in considerable numbers in company with those 

 of a weevil, Diaprepes. 



Amongst a quantity of the two larvfe brouglit back in 

 spirit by Mr. Marshall I found one of the Lamellicorn to the 

 thorax of which was firmly attached externally a tiny grub, 

 apparently that of a llymenopterous parasite, in the manner 

 described by Fabre as characteristic of the Scoliidse. This is 



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Phijtahis smithi {a, male, enlarged), with liiiid leg of male (b) and 

 female (c) and the larva («?), magnitied 3 diameters. 



the family of Solitary Wasps of which Lamellicorn larva-> are 

 the special pre}', the female wasp depositing an egg upon the 

 victim after paralyzing it with her sting, and her otfspring 

 burying its head in the motionless body and gradually 

 reducing it to an empty skin, beside which it forms its own 

 cocoon. Mr. Marshall happens to have seen a female Scolia 

 (S. {Dielt's) dorsafa, F.) examining the ground in a cane- 

 field in Barbados, and in all probability this species syste- 

 matically preys upon the P/iJ/(alitSj and it is due to it that no 

 great damage has been done by the latter, althongli sugar is 



