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Show 848 MR. NELSON ANNANDALE ON THE [Dec. 4, this fruit are said to be commonly grown, differing from one another in shape, size, colour, and even smell; and it is often the case that in two villages separated by only a few miles the predominant variety of banana is different. The introduction of a foreign weed such as the " Putri Malu," or Shy Princess (Mimosa pudica), among tbe teeming insect population of a tropical clearing must have some direct effect upon the life therein, and indirectly must influence all the surrounding country. This plant has appeared in the Peninsula since the arrival of the white man, its natural home being South America ; and has succeeded in becoming one of the commonest and most noxious weeds in the country, even in the districts to which the white man himself has not yet penetrated. III. ANOTHER HARPAGID PUPA. Colour.-Head: pink, eyes and mandibles black. Antennae black. Thorax : prothorax, w7hich is broad and slightly flattened, dull pink, striped transversely with dingy white and pale green, and edged with black. (There is no bar on the posterior edge of the prothorax as there was in the other form.) Posterior region of thorax dull pink. Rudimentary wings dingy white, with a pale green band at the base of each. Abdomen: pale pink, ringed with pale green, dingy white, and black. The green and black rings did not completely encircle the body, but were interrupted in the mid-ventral line by a number of prominences, one to each segment, of pale pink. At the extreme point of the abdomen, surrounding the anus, was a black spot, not so large or so prominent as the one on the corresponding position in Hgmenopus bicornis, but still conspicuous. Limbs: all the limbs were ringed with bands of dingy white, pink, and green, which completely surrounded them, including the expansions on the femora of the 2nd and 3rd pairs. The spines on the predatory limbs w7ere some of them green and some black. The black spines predominated towards the distal extremities. This Mantis had none of the flowery sheen of the other, and the lappets on the 2nd and 3rd limbs are small, rounded, and in nowise petal-like. The flowers with which it was found associated were of a deep cream-colour. Their buds and leaves were considerably darker than the green markings on the insect's body. Habits and Attitude.-Unfortunately I was unable to observe this species in a state of nature, but I have no doubt that its habits are very similar to those of the Kanchong. The natural attitude of the two species is precisely the same, and though thev adopt different methods of concealing themselves, they were both found hidden among flowers, presumably for the same purpose- that of obtaining their food. The common possession of a black tip to the abdomen is interesting. A single specimen of the striped Mantis was brought m e on August 19th, by M r. R. H . Yapp, |