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greenish-brown colour, with a few hairs scattered over the back, and 
a fringe of bristles running along the side and round the front, 
where the second segment conceals the head. With this fringe I 
saw them shovel a quantity of the white stuff on to their backs and 
clothe their nakedness after I had denuded them. Watching them 
with a lens, I soon saw that they were feeding among the “ mealy 
bugs.” They would pass over the larger individuals and bury their 
heads in the downy covering of a little one, and though I could not 
say I actually saw that they devoured it, I was quite satisfied that this 
was what they did. So I secured a number and put them into a pill- 
box, with a supply of their prey, and in a few days the prey had 
disappeared and the larvee had become pupe. In a fortnight (exactly 
twice the time required by the smaller Lycenide generally) fine 
specimens of Syalgis epius emerged. I was very much surprised at 
my discovery, for I did not then know that any butterfly larvee were 
carnivorous, except when they indulged in cannibalism and ate each 
other, as Lycenide often do. I wrote at once to Mr. de Nicéville, who 
replied, drawing my attention to the passage in his book and saying 
he was glad 1 had confirmed Mr. Green’s observations, I mention 
all this to show that my observations were not biassed by any previous 
notion of what my eyes ought to see. Afterwards Mr. de Nicéville 
sent me a paper, published in ‘‘ Psyche,’ on Spalgis s-segnata, an 
African species of the same genus, the larvee of which are also carnivo- 
rous. The most remarkable thing in this paper was a figure of the 
pupa, which, when magnified, exhibits a resemblance to the face of an 
ape, or chimpansee, so striking and so detailed that it is more than 
ludicrous, and deserves to be called mysterious. Unfortunately, when 
I found my specimens, I was travelling in haste through a very wild 
part of the country, so I put away the pup without examining them 
closely, and I never saw another until last month (September), when Mr. 
J. Davidson, 1.C.8., found two in Karwar. On examining them with 
a lens, what was my astonishment to find a face totally different from 
that presented by the African species, but even more life-like and 
expressive. ars were wanting, but every other feature was there. 
The abdominal portion of the pupa formed the forehead, two gleaming 
black spots, exactly in the right place, made a most malignant pair of 
eyes, the arched thorax was the nose, the effect of which was height- 
ened by its being almost black at the muzzle, and the head, with its 
attachment to the thorax, formed the chin and lips. No description 
can convey any idea of the way in which the contour, features, and 
