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I've had no luck in getting Harpagomyia bred, except that 

 the Toxorhynchites oviposited in my calabashes." 



The specimens exhibited included 2 $ and 2 $ Toxorhyn- 

 chites brevipalpis, Theo., with their pupa-cases, 3 <J and 3 $ 

 Harpagomyia trichorostris, Theo., one of the males being 

 specially associated with a £ ant — Cremastogaster buchneri, 

 Forel, near the r. aUigatrix, Forel. The two Culicidae had 

 kindly been compared with the types by Dr. G. A. K. Marshall, 

 the ant with specimens named by Forel by Mr. A. H. Hamm. 

 The " ant-flies," also exhibited, had been kindly examined by 

 Capt. J. E. Collin, who found that the " mendicants " were 

 represented by two distinct species of Milichia, while the 

 " proctodeal feeder " was a new species of the genus Rhyn- 

 chopsilopa, Hendel (Ephydridae). The type species was from 

 Formosa. It was of much interest that the males and females 

 of Harpagomyia appear equally to solicit the ants for food. 

 Jacobson mentioned the males and females occurring together 

 in Java, but did not record this fact. 



The nidification of Osmia aurulenta, Panz. : a cor- 

 rection. — Prof. Poulton said that he had recently received a 

 letter from Dr. G. Arnold, in Bulawayo, correcting the state- 

 ment, on p. xxxiii of the Proc. Ent. Soc. for 1916, that he 

 had bred Osmia aurulenta from whelk shells, on the Wallasey 

 sand-hills. The shells were a species of Helix, probably 

 nemoralis. 



Capt. W. A. Lamborns journeys with the East African 

 Veterinary Corps in 1916. — Prof. Poulton said that he felt 

 sure that Capt. Lamborn's letters, written from the localities 

 at which he took the butterflies mentioned in Dr. H. Eltring- 

 ham's paper in our Transactions for last year (p. 322), would 

 be of interest, not only in relation to the insects but also 

 because of the brief descriptions of a part of late German 

 East Africa : — 



" c/o l'< ii rinary l>< partment, 



" Nairobi, British East Africa, 



" 12. 4. 16. 



" I. left Nyasaland in late January and only reached Mom- 

 basa in the last week of March, having had to wait a con- 

 siderable tunc both at Beira and at Chinde for steamers. It 



