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densely hairy than in the fully developed larva, owing apparently to the somewhat 

 contracted nature of the integument. This applies also to the pores in the two 

 stages respectively. 



Jamaica: on Pimento (Pimenta officinalis, Lindl.), 191G ; "attended by the 

 so-called ' stinking-ant, ' Cremastogaster sp., and to be found under the loose bark ; 

 not of great importance." (A. H. Ritchie). 



This may possibly prove to be Townsend's Llaveia primitiva, the slight differences 

 being possibly due to the age of the individuals. Probably the normal number of 

 antennal segments will prove to be ten. More material is needed, 



Monophlebus ?hirtus, Brain. 



Brain* in his brief description of Monophlebus hirtus states that " the dermis is 

 closely crowded with slightly clubbed glandular hairs and occasional long hairs, 

 the latter fitting into thickened sockets,'*' these characters being the salient features 

 of the species. In the only specimen I have before me, the derm, more especially 

 at the margin, is crowded with stout, blunt, curved spines (fig. 1, b), which, though 



Fig 1. Monophlebus ? hirtus, Brain, 9 ; 

 marginal spines and hairs. 



slightly narrowed proximally, can scarcely be said to be club-shaped. Before my 

 example was passed through the various reagents and mounted in Canada balsam, 

 the margin wasseen to be broadly set with long and very stiff hairs (fig. 1, a) ; but 

 these were so easily^deciduous and brittle that the majority of them broke away in 

 the preparation. Length, 7*2 mm. 

 Nyasaland : Mt. Mlanje, 1913 (S. A. Neave). 



* Trans. E. Soc. S. Africa, v, p. 165 (1915). 



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