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ejected hit my left eyebrow and caused immediately a very 

 severe burning sensation, and though I at once bathed the 

 place in water, the burning sensation did not fully pass off 

 for half an hour. [The defensive secretion of the Anthias 

 is also treated of in Dr. Marshall's memoir : see especially 

 pp. 510, 511. | I may here say that my monkey, when I 

 put down one of the commonest of this type of beetle, showed 

 every sign of fear and actually ran away from it. 



" On Jan. 10 a number of handsome black-and-white bees 

 [Anthophora nubica, Lep.] were seen apparently roosting for 

 the night all together on bare twigs of a large Tamarind 

 tree. I send you a few. I had not met them before. On 

 the same day I first saw the large and curious Lycids, some 

 of which 1 send [Lycus (Chlamydolycus) sp. nr. trabeatus, 

 Guer.; the same as species 5 taken at Itigi, Proc. Ent. Soc. 

 11)17, p. lviii]. The male has enormously expanded elytra. 

 (My monkey won't have anything to do with Lycids ! This 

 will appear later when I send you my account of ' Taste 

 Experiments.') 



ki I think that's all for the present. I am going off to- 

 morrow — perhaps to be permanently there — to Igalula, the 

 nearest station on the railway — about 40 miles E. of Tabora, 

 where there is a recruiting depot for King's African Rifles 

 and porters. I have to examine recruits, but whether I am 

 coming back to Ndala I know not. I am taking the monkey 

 with me, so hope to carry on. I have got records for nearly 

 100 species now. 



•■ Jan. 18, 1917. Igalula. 



" I arrived at Igalula to-day, but as there is not here the 

 recruiting depot which I understood was, I shall presumably 

 have to move further down the line to Itigi — about 150 

 miles E. of Tabora."' 



Capt. Carpenter's observations on a Bembex attacking 

 Hesperid butterflies (Proc. Ent. Soc, 1917, p. xli) were 

 included in this letter. Other specimens also captured on 

 the journey, Jan. 17, from Ndala to Igalula are referred to 

 in the following letter. 



