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ruined a house so completely that the foundation had to be 

 dug up, and I there saw the winged males (Dorylus) issuing 

 out of the same holes as the workers. I afterwards saw them 

 twice again ; the last time in a green house of the Botanical 

 Garden at Saharunpore, N.W. Pro v. They were issuing 

 every u)orning and evening in great numbers from a hole in 

 the flooring (lime), and several winged individuals were with 

 them, and these entered houses at night: this was in Febru- 

 ary. Dr. Jameson laughed me to scorn when I talked of 

 digging up the flooring of his pet green-house, but if 1 ever 

 get an opportunity of another nest in a get-at-able situation, 

 I will try and get at the mystery of the female. Surely, how- 

 ever, some of the winged individuals must be females; if not, 

 then the only other conclusion is that the female always re- 

 mains apterous, and is impregnated in the nest; or, if winged, 

 that she is kept a forcible prisoner till her wings drop off. I 

 would have written long ago, but was separated from the 

 bottle containing the workers." 



Mr. F. Smith thought there was now little doubt that 

 Typhlopone was the worker of Dorylus, as had been suggested 

 years ago by Shuckard. The female, however, was still un- 

 known. 



The Rev. Hamlet Clark exhibited an interesting collection 

 of Phytophaga received by him from Dr. Du Boulay, who 

 captured them in the district of Champion Bay, West Au- 

 stralia. Among the many novelties was a very abnormal 

 form of Eumolpidae, unique in structure not only among 

 Eumolpidae but throughout the Coleoptera : the male leaps 

 vigorously and quickly when captured, and it is the only spe- 

 cies of Eumolpidte that is known to be saltatorial ; but the 

 peculiarity of the insect is, that it is not the posterior but the 

 medial femora which give this power of leaping : the poste- 

 rior femora are of ordinary form, or perhaps somewhat attenu- 

 ate ; the medial, however, are very robust, incrassated, 

 sufficiently elongate and with strong and curved tibiae. Mr. 

 Clark remarked that it might be a question whether the in- 

 sect properly belonged to the Eumolpidae or to some other 

 group : he slated that it had been carefully examined not 

 only by himself but by Mr. Baly, and that there seemed to 

 be no doubt on the subject. He proposed to create a new 



