01* rai WOTIUJUTK V 





n 



Mi 





fi irt 



wh 



may 



r;-te 

 n i-lilv be penetrated 



>), and it is 

 hereas in 



throughout composed of thin-wallei cell 



a 



case 



of 



female flow 



dtl inner * 



« 



I 



ry 





., lemmlcell have i latively stron 



of the layei 



walls, and there is, m 



y 



add 



> 



the outer 

 a stratum 



ti ae msi>tin 



f ' 



- 



of small cells immediately external to the 



T| ova wex|M 1 from the bod 



the insects and as occurring within the nucell 



i 



I entered 



of reeen 



bodies of tli in* 



CH mm 



ptacl 



conspicuously in characters 



a C 



\ tereas 



vvithi 



•i 



tl 



they are 



laftin con alin 



tli 



pr. plaem concealing the nucleus, mm « ^ 

 it u h In ... to tli- neighbouring ti sues (Plate IV 



As obtained from the 

 less spherical with diameters of between 0-05 and 



18), 



form, contain a dense solid mass of 



which serves to 



net-ts, thev are more or less spneneai wim ui^^v- v * »« W w««u 



Ogpiai n« nurlmis and beautifully reticulate protoplasm (Plate IV 



% 



of elongated oval 



(1 are provided with a 



long pedicel 



5 





17) 



Although no ova can be deposited within the true female flowers, the insects which 



111 I "t» k 



Ml, 



I'll 



I 



I N 



i -n tor f< 



vmingh 



!l 



placo of gall -receptacles do not appear to realise the fact, and 



tni 



the 



rface and attemp 



to effect perforation until they 



& 



l„ nm exhausted ami die, their corpses remaining readily recognisable for a l»nc- 



mil 



> 



peeiall) 



remaining vvell preserved even to the time of maturatio 



time 



of 



tin* i optarles. 



Other insects especially related to the receptaeles of F. Roxburghii 



No other insects, of course, are so essentially related to the receptacles as the species 



The 



il.scrib. I abo o, but there are several others which are closely associated with them. 



first of th . which is probably a species of the Tineina according to Mr. Wood-Mason 



y 



inhabit* the receptacular cavitie during its larval 



stage, feeding on the 



flowers, and ulti- 



mutely eating its \ \ 



out through the 



ostiolum. The affected receptacles never mature, 



bat fall soon after th emergence of the insect, and the number of them which are thus 

 n i ed is \ < aside table, especially in the case of female trees. Three species of ants 





11 V related to the 



ptacles. These are, 1st, a small, brown, hairy species 



whi h Mr. W ad- Mason informs me is probably Pheidole indica, Mayr.; 2nd, (Ecophyll 



'f 



idina, Fabr.; and 



3rd, Sima rufonigra* Jerdon 



y 



The first species utilizes the mature 



re< 



JaJforn 

 iiTii to indicate their pre* 

 to be occupied by a small 



There is no conspicuous perforation or oth 



i 



but 



on opening an 



affected 



ptacle the 



•y 



ternal 

 found 



ny of the mature insects with an abundance of 



3 



ones 



in vuriou rtages of development spread out over the gelatinous surface. On one occasion 



an artect* I re 

 ang were \ 



mature in *ci « 



le after division was kept for some days under observation 

 y soon cai 



^ 



thei 



home. 



The 



ried down out of sight into cavities in the pulp, and the 



e excursions out over the table to pick up any scattered ones and 



Th 



issociation of (Ecophylla smaragdina with the 



ptacles 



be n 

 the appr 



due to the fact that the fig-insect serves as a great source of food-supply. As has 



pointed out, the occurrence of maturation in the gall-receptacles and 



can very frequently be readily detected for some 

 le to the presence of parties of this species of 



exit of the 



fig-insects 



tim 



ant 



re emergence actually 



sets in, d 



atching 



aelt> 



lantly around the 



As it 



appe 



t 



tioles and fiercely 



resenting 



any handl 



g 



of th 



I 



Hnnnisl 



\ 



V 



t( tsion of the thick 



possible that they should be able to appreciate the 



ptacular wall 



quent on the disappear 



of 



