LUMINOUS SOUTH AFRICAN FULGORID INSECT. 289 



flies (D'urbania spp.) afforded the rare occurrence, in the larval 

 stage, of being parasitical. (Notes wanting.) 



With approach of cold weather all signs of the Fulgorid para- 

 sites disappeared, their purpose in life seemingly unfinished, 

 and, as usual, the busy little red ant and others could each day 

 be noticed persevering in their labours of removing the awkward 

 pieces of the legacy left them. 



Once more, as it were, we see one of the many instances 

 where Nature seems not to interfere in the struggle for existence. 



1. Epipyrops fulvipunctata. 4. Pupa of same. 

 guttata, Walk. 



2 and 3. Rhinortha 



We cannot understand her motives in choosing for the perpetua- 

 tion of some species, in the way these pages have shown. What 

 better example can we have for the " Survival of the Fittest," 

 quite of an unorthodox kind ? We have been afforded an oppor- 

 tunity of studying a phenomenon perhaps with an individuality 

 of its own. 

 Natal : Durban. 



ADDENDA BY W. L. DISTANT. 



Genus Epipyrops. 

 Epipyrops, Westw., Proc. and Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1876, 

 pp. xxiv. and 522 ; Hmpsn. Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. xx. 

 p. 109 (1910). 



