( *c ) 



doubt a member of the Macroscelididae and most probably 

 an Elephantulus, but the genera are very closely allied. 



" Aug. 9, 1917. 

 " Now about ants. I was talking about Megaponera to a 

 ('..M.S. missionary from Toro, and he said in that part of 

 Uganda they are well known for their Ternhtivorous (!) 

 habits. But he added this curious tale. There is another, 

 ' small, red,' ant which the natives call ' Nabi,' and they say 

 it comes into a house and eats all the Termites, but doesn't 

 go away until it has ' sown, its mushrooms.' I asked the 

 missionary what he meant by that, and he said that the 

 departure of this ant is followed by a crop of tiny fungi in 

 the Termite runs. I can only explain it by some fungus 

 which the Termites keep under restraint, flourishing rampantly 

 in their absence. For the natives did not say that the ' Nabi ' 

 comes back to eat its mushrooms ! ! " 



Having thus, as far as possible, filled up the gap in the 

 series of letters published in Proc. Ent. Soc, 1916, the corre- 

 spondence is continued in order of date — with here and there 

 a passage inserted, for the sake of convenience, out of its 

 chronological position. The last letter published in 1916 

 (p. cxxviii) is dated Oct. 5 of that year; the present series 

 begins only a month later. 



These letters, like the earlier ones, include many observa- 

 tions and descriptions that are not Entomological, but throw 

 Light »m the interesting and little-known country in which 

 the Entomological work was done and the unique conditions 

 which now prevail. 



Many of Capt. Carpenter's observations on mimicry are on 

 the lines of Dr. Marshall's work published in our Transactions 

 for 1902, but the species are nearly always different, and in 

 such a difficull and controversial subject the independent 

 testimony of another observer, who from the force of cir- 

 cumstance was unable to study the work of his predecessors, 

 is of great value. Furthermore (apt. Carpenter has done Ear 

 more than confirm; lie has added new conclusions of much 

 interest. 



In the variety of inquiries involved in the study of ('apt. 



