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Exhibitions. 
HapLorHorax BurcHELLII.—Mr. H. F. Bartuett exhibited 
a specimen of the Carabid beetle Haplothorax burchelli 
found under a stone on the lower part of Flagstaff Hill, 
St. Helena, on March 25, 1913. <A party of three were looking 
for this insect on Deadwood Plain and Flagstaff Hill, given 
by Wollaston as its habitat, but though a large number of 
remains were found, the ¢ exhibited was the only one seen 
alive in a hunt of about an hour. 
Prof. Poutton observed that the type specimen in the 
Hope Department was also in good condition—though W. J. 
Burchell’s St. Helena collection from which it had come had 
perished—since Mr. Hope had (fortunately) forgotten to send 
it back. 
LaRvAL AND ImaGInaAL EMBIIDAE FROM TUNISIA AND 
Atgrria.—Mr. P. A. Buxton exhibited specimens (sp. as yet 
undetermined) from various localities in Tunis and Algeria and 
from the coast to south of the Atlas Mountains. They were 
never common, and always found as larvae in small com- 
munities (rarely singly, and once a score together) under stones 
and fallen leaves of prickly pear—never under bark; all the 
individuals of a community faced in the same direction and 
retreated or advanced down their tubes with equal ease 
backwards or forwards. The exhibited larvae (two) came 
from Hammam Meskoutine, Constantine, E. Algeria (30 
March, 1913). Their food was doubtful. The insects (origin- 
ally six) had lived in the same tube from March to September. 
No cast skins were found nor dead individuals, which must 
therefore have been eaten. They refused to touch a fly, alive 
or dead, also a blade of grass. They made a large chamber in 
a piece of cork in their tube, with three small entrances to it, 
but the nutritive value of cork cannot be high. The insects 
spun silken tubes in all directions in their home, commencing 
by a straight tube three inches long, which was spun by six 
Embiids in ten hours. In nature the tubes branch dichoto- 
mously, and are flattened in cross section. The chamber in 
the cork was not silk lined. The insects were very shy and 
skototropic, and very sensitive to vibration. They were 
