MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 587 



Kawkareilc, Jtme llih. — A bundle of bamboos, collected as specimens, stands 

 in the corner of the centre room of the Forest bungalow, A leaf-cutter 

 bee {Megachile dlsjuncta, Fabr.) has been industriously carrying in, for 

 the last tTvo hours, little circular pieces culled from ihe leaves ot' a rose 

 bush in the garden. Of course she is constructing a nest in the hollow end 

 of one of the bamboos aforesaid. I watched her as she flew in with her 

 load CO the corner and saw her disappear down the lioUow end of one of 

 the outermost bamboos in the bundle. When she flew out again, 1 

 approached to see whether I could examine the nest. As I neared the 

 corner I noticed another bee (Parevaspis ahdominalis, Smith) walking up the 

 identical b:imboo in which the Megachile had her nest. It scrambled up 

 the bamboo, looked in at the hollow and disappeared. Expecting ructions 

 yihen the Megachile returned, I watched M.x%. Parevaspis remained out of 

 sight for some time, then put her great broad head out, gave a \> ok round 

 and again retreated. Presently, the Megachile returned carrying building 

 material as before, and alighted on the very edge of the hollow in the Lamboo 

 preparatory to descending inside. The hollow was small, just big enough 

 perhaps to let an insect slip through, about twice the Megachihs's size, but 

 not auftic'ently large for the Parevaspis to get past the Megachile, because of 

 the former's huge head. As I said the Megachile halted on the edge of the 

 hollow in the bamboo. Suddenly the bit of leaf she was carrying was 

 knocked out of her hold, and she herself pushed off the edge of the bamloo. 

 It was Mrs. Parevaspis, of course, who had rushed up and thrust her great 

 head out of the hollow. And there she stayed on the defensive with her jaws 

 widely expanded und threatened. Poor Megachile, she seemed greatly taken 

 aback, buzzed around angrily, but could not make up her mind to attack and 

 dispossess the intruder of her nest. For about an hour aflPairs remained in 

 this condition, then I was obliged to go out on work, and when I returned in 

 the afternoon the Megachile had peaceful possession of her nest again, but 

 what became of the Parevaspis or how she was ejected I have no idea. Next 

 day the Megachile had finished her nest and I took the bamboo as it stood. 

 I kept it for over six months, but nothing hatched out, and when I opened 

 the hollow, I found ants had got at the nest and entirely destroyed it. 



C. T. BINGHAM, Colonel, 



Conservator of Forests, 



Camp Maymyo, Upper Burma, 'Mth May, 1899. 



No. XX,— JUNGLE NOTES. 



Chital. -On the 24th of March last I had just beaten out and killed a tiger 

 when a spotted stag with fairly good antlers came galloping along the bank 

 of a nullah I shot the atiimal as it was descending the bank, and it dropped 

 dead into a pool of water. I was then surprised to find that both the horns 

 had fallen off, and were lying beside the dead stag. This would not have 



