Kiueri>"iu<>- flics in the field were often ohserved in tlie 

 l,,i]^ — ., siniile :inr, :il this time, heini;' :il)le to hold a fly, and 

 rlie cane is alwavs swarniini!; with them. 



The larvae of the flies only escape heeause the parasitized 

 JHirci-s \)\\\ix the channels Ix^hind them and hnild ant-])r(K)f co- 

 coons, foi' the ants (piickly destroy both <irnl)s and mag'i'ots 

 \vheii ex])osed. 



1013. Ehrhorii, E. M. — Ants. Report of the Division 

 of Entomoloo-y for the biennial period endin<i' Decemher .'51st, 

 11)14. Hawaii Bd. Aoric. and Forestry, p. i:;i»-ll<>. 



The anthor reports PheidoJe nicgacepltala as i>ivino- nineh 

 ti'onble to householders, attacking foods, but states that this 

 species is more of a garden pest. He says that they fre- 

 ([nently loosen the soil around young plants, causing them to 

 fall over, and that they are more troublesome in dry situa- 

 tions. 



Control measures include placing the legs of tables, etc., 

 in dishes of water, or tying bands soaked in ant-poison about 

 the legs, and the destruction of the nests. Since this species 

 nests in the soil, outside of the building, they are easily killed 

 by the use of gasoline or carbon bisulphide. 



1915. Girault, A. A. — Pheidole rnegacephala Fab. dying 

 from cold in Xortli Queensland. Ent. Xews, XXVI, oVrl. 



This interesting note follows: 



"Toward the last week of July, 191:^, all over the Goondi, 

 Darradgee and Mundoo cane plantations near Innisfail, I saw 

 little heaps of dead ants, each heap containing several hun- 

 dred specimens of the workers and soldiers. They were rather 

 connnon and I was considerably puzzled to account for them 

 until chancing to hear from a farmer that young sugar cane 

 had lieen slightly damaged by recent frosts; the ants doubtless 

 had suffered from the same cause, the more clearly indicated 

 because the species a])pears to be an equatorial one or one of 

 the uplands or of sitnations not exposed to cold spells in the 

 tropical sense, Xests adjoining the heaps of dead contained 

 living individuals acting as usual. Later, on August 8, at 

 Xelson, Xorth Queensland, I found the same species, dead in 

 similar heaps; if along a road, these heaps all seemed to be 



