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contained Psocidae (species undetermined) which were thriving 

 on bran on which fungi were growing {Trichothecium and 

 Penicillium). A few of the Psocidae were introduced into 

 the tube last September, and now, after about nine months, 

 during which time the tube has not been opened, there were 

 large numbers of all stages in very healthy condition. 



Bee and plant fertilisation. — The Rev. F. D. Morice 

 exhibited a $ of the solitary bee Andrena lahialis taken near 

 Woking on May 19, 1915, having attached to the disc of its 

 clypeus a vegetable substance apparently a pollinium of 

 some orchid. 



Noteworthy Ants. — Mr. Donisthorpe exhibited speci- 

 mens of Anochetus cameroni, Forel, a new species taken by 

 Dr. Cameron at San Roque, December, 1914, and Cremasfo- 

 gaster inflata, F. Smith,, taken by Mr. Bryant at Sarawak, 

 December, 1913. The latter species has the thorax distended, 

 which acts as a reservoir for honey, in the same way as the 

 distended gasters of the true " Honey Ants." 



Further observations on African insects by Dr. 

 G. D. H. Carpenter. — Prof. Poulton said that he had re- 

 ceived another consignment of insects and further letters 

 from Dr. Carpenter, who still remained in the same locality, 

 viz. Kakindu, about 30 miles west of the Victoria Nyanza, 

 1° 10' South lat. and 31° 30' East long. Writing March 22, 

 1915, Dr. Carpenter had added the following information to 

 the notes read to the Society on May 5 last : — 



" By the way, in my ' Wagtail observations ' I forgot to 

 mention that though Acraeines were not at the pool drinking, 

 Tirumala mercedonia [Karsch] was there, and at one time I 

 saw a wagtail sitting on a large stone on which half-a-dozen 

 mercedonia were also sitting, within a few inches of it, but 

 taking not the least notice of them (even less than it did of 

 the numerous ' whites'), although it would eagerly seize any 

 of the numerous Atella which it could get, when they settled 

 there." 



The following captures were exhibited to the meeting : — 



1. Nineteen males of Papilio ridleyanus, Ward. — Dr. 

 Carpenter, in his letter published in Proc. Ent. Soc. 1915, 

 p. Ixiv, had called attention to the frequent occurrence of 



