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Ebpoet of the Entomological Section. By Harold H. King (contimied) 



Animals Injurious to Farm and Garden Crops — Dura >Stem-borer — Black or Greasy 

 Cutworm — Asal Fly — Cotton Stem-borer — Melon-Weevil — !Meloii Stem-borer — ^lelon 

 Leaf Beetle — Diamond-back Moth — Cabbage Bug — Kigla Gall Weevil — Fig Stem- 

 l>oring Beetle — White Ants — Black Garden Ant. 



Plant Diseases Ordinance — Explanatory Note — Contents — Definitions — Articles 

 Exempted — Detailed Explanations of Contents. 



A Xew Genus and Two New Species of Culii.'im.k from the Sudan. By 



F. V. Theobald 151 



Genus, Diciroini/la : Diceromyid ri/ncnnii, n. sp. — C'ti/cr .mdiiiteiisif:, n. s]i. 



The Finches and Weaver Birds of the Sudan, BEiN(i Notes on the Group containinc 



THE Birds Injurious to Grain Crops. By A. L. Butler 157 



Introduction — Utility of Birds as Insect Killers. 



Part I., The Families, Sub-Families and Genera— Family I., Frinyii/kke: Sub- 

 families, Eiiiherizimt ; Friiu/illhut — Family II., Fluceidit : Sub-families, Viduiiuf ; 

 Estrildinui ; Ploceimt. 



Part II., Notes on the Species — Family, Fi-ingillidw — Sub-family, Endierizime : Genera, 

 Emheriza ; Fringillaria — Sub-family, FrinijUlhio' : Genera, Eri/fhrospiza ; tSerhms ; 

 Poliosjnza ; Passer; Petronia — Family, Ploceidte — Sub-family, Viduiiue : Genera, 

 Hjipochera ; Vidua; Coliuspasser ; Urobrachya ; Pyrumelana ; Quelea — Sub-family, 

 Estrildimt : Genera, Amadina ; Philetairus : Uroloncha ; Ortijijospiza ; Spermestes ; 

 Uraeginthus : Esfrilda ; Lagonosticta ; Pytelia — Sub-family, Ploceimt : Genera, 

 SjieriHospizu ; tiporopipes ; Amhlyosjyiza ; Dinemellia ; Textor ; Ploceijiasser ; Aiiaj)/ectes ; 

 M(diiid)us ; Hyphanturyus ; Sitagra ; HypJiantoi-nis ; Xanthophilus. 



Additional Note on a Species of Lark, Mdanocoryphu liimaculaia. 



Scorpions and Allied Annulated Spiders of the Ancslo-Egyptian Sudan. By 



Professor F. Werner 179 



Characteristics of Scorpions — Habits — Poison — Distriljution — Scijrjiions Found in Deposits 

 of the Silurian Period — Virulence of Poison — Symptoms of Poisoning — Twn ilain Divisions 

 of Sudanese Scorpions. 



Descriptions of Genera — Buthus : B. amoreuxi ; B. (jiu'tKjucstriatus : B. occitaiiiis : 11. 

 acuteairinntus : B. lepitochelys ; B. minaj: — Parabuthus : P. hvnteri — Nanobutlms : 

 X. audersoni — Pandinus : P. pallidus ; P. exitiaiis ; P. imperator — List of Sudanese 

 Scorpions. 



Characteristics of Pediiialjii — Comparison with Scorpions — Descriptions of Geiuis Ddinun : 

 D. variegatus. 



Characteristics of Solifugai — Distribution — Habits — Main Divisions of Species — Descriptions 

 of Genera — (ialeodes : G. arahs — Paragaleodes : P. scalai-is — Othoes : 0. floweri — 

 Rhagodes : Rk. melanocepihalus — Solpuga : ti. deutatidens, S. acliweinfurthi — Diesia : 

 D. ilin-nhergi — Gluvidjisis ; G. ru/escens. 



Notes on 'i'wd Specimens of Spitting-Snakes from Southern Rhodesia. By Henry 



Curtis 105 



Eti'ect of Ejected Fluid — Spitting Cobra — Xain tiigrimllis — Venom — Reproductions of and 

 Extracts from some Recent Literature. 



A Note on the Sudan Spitting-Snake. By Sih T. R. Phaser 201 



Herpetomonas aspongopi. By W. il. Aders -'ol' 



Hyiier-jiarasitisni — Melon Bug — Alimentary Tract — Method of Examination — Structure and 

 Life-cycle of the Parasite — Resting Stage — Process of Division — Concluding Remarks. 



