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So far back as June, 1898, you published in NATURE a short article from my pen dealing with “Horn-feeding Larvæ”; it opened up the question as to whether the larvæ of the insect Tinea vastella, Zell. = gigantella, Stn. = lucidella, WKr., fed on the horns of living animals. I mentioned at the time that Dr. Fitzgibbon, in 1856, brought home from the Gambia two pairs of horns, one belonging to Kolus ellipsiprymnus and the other to Oreas canna, which he had purchased from the natives; the horns were perforated by grubs enclosed in cases which projected abundantly from the surface of the horns, the blood at the base of the horns not having thoroughly dried up on them when brought to market.
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MCCORQUODALE, W. Horn-feeding Larvræ. Nature 64, 446 (1901). https://doi.org/10.1038/064446a0
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