FIELD NATURAMSTS' CLUB. 127 



REPORT OF CLUB MEETINGS. 



5th October, 1894. 



PRESENT : Sir John Goldney, V.P., in the Chair. Messrs. J. 

 Et. Llanos, II. Caracciolo, T. W. Carr, John Hoadley, Thos. 

 I. Potter, J. T. Rousseau, Syl. Devenish, John Thomson and 

 F. W. Urich, Hon. Secretary. 



Mr. V. de L elected a Town Member of 



the Club. — Mr. tTrich read a □ the fungus-growing 



of Trinidad. to were Atta 



i„ Atta ) octospinosa, Reich, 



Atta (Trachymyrm Forel, Apterostigma urichii, 



\igma mayri, Forel and Sericomyr, is, Mayr. 



The habits of these and the construction of 



their nests described. Reference was also made to the means 

 employed for destroyin, md their natural enemies were 



enumerated. Artifi copical slides of the fungus 



and the ants themselves were exhibited in connection with this 

 r. — Mr. Russell Mui -narks about his method 



of dealing with the ! Mr. Potter mentioned how he 



yed aests of A. octosjrinosa in o 

 Murray a] ationed how nests of could 



1 with just a pine tic put into a small hole 



made at 1 bo Mr. Murray wood lice 



ghoulish in their hal members of the nest who 



devoured ' i by the rest of the 



inhabitant e arsenic would pass through the 



■ [jopulation be poisoned in succession. — 



Mr. < • Antichi'i 'cea of which lie 



\ fruit, but the cuj 



. bout the In' approached them they 



op to the earth and disappeared in such a 



he wasalmosi led to believe that they had 



'dropped purposely into holes in the ground situated immediately 



underneat] Be also exhibited a fine 



trum and several o 

 of Chiro] I Hemiderma • 



Icina, 

 . and l'h; ■ sp.) from the 



iwed 3 specimens of 

 with 

 A curiou i in i larly 



- 

 protul 



l > iew by the same member. The 



