MYRMECOPHILOUS LYC^NID CHRYSALIS. 77 



ippiue pupffi with C. quadrisectus would therefore have become a very 

 interesting but doubtful case had I not received the aforementioned 

 material from Mr. T. E. Bell, of Karwar, India. The pupae of A. amantes 

 i-epresent, so to speak, the missing link between those lycsenid pup^ 

 which are simply permitted to remain, or are more or less accidentally 

 found, in ant nests and those which we may legitimately assign as dwell- 

 ing in ant colonies. 



It would be very interesting to search further for the reciprocal relation- 

 ship of the sj^mbionts on the spot, chieily to find out if the butterflies 

 when emerging are not possibly in need of assistance from the ants, as 

 well as to verify the secretion by actual observation. In this wise it 

 would be easier to understand the s}'mbiotic relationship than if the reten- 

 tion of the honeydew glands were credited merely to their use in repaying 

 the ants for the protection afforded the pupae. For the latter reason 

 no secretory organs such as are demonstrable in many examples, would 

 be needed. As Thomann has demonstrated, the pupse of palearctic 

 Lycsenida; do not need the help of the ants. This I have been able also 

 to verify on a number of species. 



