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result was the same. After the second burying, the wasp was captured as she 

 emerged, and put in a cage with a live cricket. Next morning both were dead 

 but the cricket had a small white egg stuck between the base of its legs. Even 

 in a cage she had been true to her instincts and stung the cricket, afterwards 

 laying her egg as she had done with the crickets she caught the day before 

 under natural circumstances. The cricket proved to be Brachytrupes Achatinus 

 (Stoll.), the common big ground cricket. The grub of the Chlorion presumedly 

 feeds on the paralysed cricket which keeps alive and fresh till wanted. 



H. MAXWELL LEFROY. 

 Surat, 21 st December 1903. 



No. XXV— ABNORMAL GROWTH OF TREES. 



In two cases I have come across I have noted a very abnormal growth in tree 

 trunk?. In both cases the trees are worshipped by the local Uriyas. 



1. Terminalia tomentosa. — -A large tree near Chirikipadasasanum in the 

 Atagoda Zemindari of the Ganjam District. 



Girth 1 foot above ground ... 13 feet. 



Girth 9 feet above ground ... 17 feet, 



Largast diameter at 9 feet ... 8 feet. 



Smallest diameter at 9 feet ... 1 foot. 



2. Anogeissus acuminata. — In Tilsingi village, Gumsur Taluq, Ganjam. 



A very old tree, buttressed all round ; the main trunk broken short at a height 

 of 12 feet, with three large side branches, the whole presenting the shape of a 

 gourd. 



Girth at 2 feet above ground ... 39 feet. 

 Diameters at right angles ... 12 feet 4 inches and 12 feet. 

 The abnormal thickness is mainly due to five large buttresses which are 

 from 3 to 6 feet high and stand out from l£ to 3 feet away from the main trunk. 

 The girth measurement was taken round the buttresses from apex to apex 

 and not following the sinuosities. 



C. E. C. FISCHER, 



Dy. Conservator, I, F. S. 

 Chatrapur, Gunjam Dist., Madras Presy., 

 January 1904. 



No. XXVI.— SOME NOTES ON HARRIER HAWKS IN UVA, CEYLON. 



One evening, just when the building of the Boer Camp at Diyatalawa was 

 being commenced, a friend and I were trying the swamps in the vicinity for 

 snipe. 



It was getting dusk and we were surprised to see a much larger number of 

 Harrier Hawks (0. cineraceus and C. macrurus) than we had ever observed in 

 company before settling on the low hills surrounding a swamp. They came in 

 from all sides as the light waned, until there were quite forty. We shot seven 



