494 Records of the Indian Museum. [Vora 
July, when travelling by train, a specimen of Vespa cincta flew 
into the carriage carrying a Polistes hebraeus which it had cap- 
tured. V. cincta and various other large Vespa spp. are deter- 
mined captors of honey-bees as these enter or leave the hive.’’ 
The capture of a small Pyralid moth by Vespa cincta is 
recorded by Green (Spolia Zeylanica, II, p.197). 
Apidae. 
In addition to the notes just referred to recording battles 
between wasps and bees, the following references to bees may be 
given. 
Douglas contributes information about the hive-bees indige- 
nous to India and the introduction of the Italian bee (/J.A.S.B., 
LV [II], pp. 83-96). 
Storey records the poisonous action of the nectar of Lapindus 
emarginatus on bees (J.B.N.H.S., V, p. 423). 
Eardley-Wilmot refers to an instance of a man who, having 
disturbed a bees’ nest, was attacked by its inhabitants, and later 
in the day was singled out from his companions for attack by bees 
from other nests which he chanced to approach (J.B.N.H.S., XI, 
PP. 741-2). 
Bingham describes the habits of Megachile disjuncta and its 
parasite Paravaspis abdominalis (J.B.N.H.S., XII, p. 587). 
Several parasites from the nests of Xylocopa tenuiscapa have 
been recorded by Green (Ent. Mo. Mag. [2], XIII, pp. 232-3). In 
an article in Spolita Zeylanica (I, pp. 117-9) on the mites which 
inhabit the remarkable abdominal pouch of this species, references 
to two other papers dealing with these mites are given. These 
are Perkins, Ent. Mo. Mag.,[2], X, pp. 37-9; and Oudemans, Zool. 
Anz., XXVII, pp. 137-9. The latter contains further references. 
A note on the effects of the sting of Xylocopa tenuiscapa is 
contributed by Green (Spolia Zeylanica, VI, p. 134). 
Notes on the habits of Afts dorsata are contributed by Willey 
(Spolia Zeylanica, V1, p. 181, I pl.). 
The characteristic odour of leaf-cutting bees is described by 
Green (Spolia Zeylanica, VII, p. 55). 
Castets contributes an article entitled ‘‘Les Abeilles du sud 
de l’Inde’’ to the Revue des Questions Scientifiques (Brussels, Oct. 
1893). He deals with the habits of the three Indian species of 
A pis and of Mellipona iridipennis. An abstract of this article will 
be found in the Tropical Agriculturalist (XXX, 1908, pp. 48-54). 
The peculiar way in which a bee ‘‘ painted in alternate bands 
of shining black and the brightest, purest cobalt ’’—doubtless an 
Anthophora—collects poilen, and its way of resting for the night, 
are described by Cunningham (‘‘ Plagues and Pleasures”’, pp. 37-8). 
The burrows of Anthophora (or Podalivius) pulcherrima are 
described by Annandale (Rec. Ind. Mus., II1, p. 294, I text-fig.), 
who notes that they open in a direction which prevents rain from 
entering them to any great extent. 
