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THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



THE LARVA OF LIPHYRA BRASSOLIS, Westw. 

 By T. a. Chapman, M.D. 



It is necessary to note that an error has occurred in this 

 matter in my short paper in the last volume of the ' Entomo- 

 logist' (vol. XXXV. p. 225). Mr. Dod writes to the Editor that 

 the larva described as the young larva of L. hrassolis belongs to 

 another species, and is not that of hrassolis at all. It matters 

 little to explain how Mr. Dod came to enclose this larva with the 

 L. hrassolis without knowing he had done so ; how Mr. South 

 took it to be the young larva of L. hrassolis, and handed it to me 

 with the definite statement it was so ; or how I detected nothing 

 incongruous in the information. What this larva really is, Mr. 

 Dod does not inform us as yet, beyond that it is that of a moth, 

 and lives with ants. 



The larva has a facies that would agree well enough with 

 Lyc<2na, more so, indeed, than the full-grown larva of L. hrassolis 

 has. It has "macro" prolegs, and is therefore a butterfly, a 

 *' macro " or a relative of the Limacodid-Zygsena group ; that it 

 is the latter seems most probable. ■ 



The curious prolegs of the large larva of L. hrassolis are, of 

 course, as described, and all that requires altering in what I 

 have said about them that is erroneous, is in seeing their 

 immediate evolution from the form in this moth larva ; this may 

 be their evolution, or it may be something very different. It 

 remains true, however, that they present a pseudo-micro form 

 developed from a fully evolved macro-proleg. 



For the rest, it will be better to await further facts and 

 materials before saying more, except that I have kept silence 

 for some time, intending to say nothing till these arrived, but 

 have finally concluded that this note is perhaps desirable. 



Betula, Eeigate : January 2nd, 1903. 



ON THE BUTTERFLIES COLLECTED IN EQUATORIAL 

 AFRICA BY CAPTAIN CLEMENT SYKES. 



By Emily Mary Sharpe. I ^ O ^ 0^ 

 (Continued from p. 8.) 



Family Papilionid^s:. 



165. Papilio phorcas, Cram. — a, <? . March from Usoga to 

 Nandi ; April, 1900. 



166. P. MEROPB, Cram. — a, $ . March from Usoga to Nandi ; 

 April, 1900. 



167. P. P0LICENE8, Cram.— a, h. March from Usoga to Nandi; 

 April, 1900. 



