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NOTE ii, p. 149. Stick-Insects (Phasmidce). These insects are 

 very abundant any time during the day when trees are being felled, 

 numbers being disturbed by the fall of each tall forest tree. C. H . 



NOTE 12, p. 150. Heteropteryx grayi. Usually met with on the 

 ground. The native name is "Senantun." C. H. 



NOTE 13, p. 156 11. Dr. Koningsberger on Colly ris Larvce. Mr. 

 North, who has kindly looked up the reference quoted by the 

 author, finds that it is only the general title of the Bulletins of 

 various Botanic gardens in the Dutch E. Indies, and unless the 

 place is given the reference is useless. It is not Buitenzorg, for there 

 are no papers by Koningsberger in the issue of 1901 or 1910 or any 

 other between these dates. The reference is probably to the 

 following paper : " Koningsberger (J. C.) en Zimmerman (A). De 

 dierlijke Vijanden der Koffie cultur op Java [the animal pests of 

 coffee culture in Java], Part II, Med.'s Landen Plantentuin, Batavia, 

 1901." Part I was published in 1897. E. B. P. 



NOTE 14, p. 173 n. 2. The Light of Lampyridce, etc. When in 

 Jamaica this winter (1915-16) several large fawn-coloured Lampyrids 

 flew to the lamp on the verandah and settled on the wall, where 

 they were attacked by a rather small spider which had its habitation 

 in holes in the wall. I rescued one from a spider, and it recovered, 

 but immediately flew back to the same spot and was attacked again. 

 The Lampyrid kept flashing its light the whole time, but it did not 

 keep off the spider by this defence. Of course the wall was brightly 

 lighted, so possibly the flashlight was not in that case conspicuous 

 enough. But the real use of the light, if not for defence, I do not 

 understand. H. N. R. 



NOTE 15, p. 174. Malacoderm Larvce. Mr. C. J. Gahan informs 

 me that he does not know of any observations similar to that 

 recorded by Mr. E. J. Bles, " but it is known that Lampyrid larvas 

 use the terminal sucker to clean their head and limbs from the 

 slime of the snail after having fed on the latter." It is probable 

 that Mr. Bles's observation points to the use of a secretion which 

 prevents the slime from adhering closely to the larva, thus making 

 its removal easy. E. B. P. 



NOTE 16, p. 181. Laccoptera sp. Dr. D. Sharp fears that there is 

 no means of determining the species, of which the specific name 

 had been left blank in the author's manuscript. It does not appear 

 to be a species mentioned in the papers quoted. E. B. P. 



