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had expressed his fears that “the thin black crust” of the nest would suffer 
in transit. A large number of the Termites from this nest were exhibited, 
consisting of two apterous forms, but mostly “soldiers.” The nest now 
exhibited was said to be a small specimen of its kind, as they were very 
frequently found of from six to eight feet in circumference. The other nest 
was of the general Termite nature, being of hard clay and showing the usual 
irregular chambers, but these particular ground-nests were stated to be very 
rarely, if ever, of large size. 
Mr. F. P. Pascoe remarked that many years ago he had found a similar 
tree-nest in a forest in the Organ Mountains in Brazil, but did not at the 
time examine it; he learnt, however, that it was known there as the 
“negro-head,” a name very suggestive of its appearance. The year before 
last he had met with a somewhat similar nest near Para, but larger and of 
a lighter colour. They were both attached to trees, five or six feet from 
the ground, not to branches. The Para nest was very friable, and on 
breaking into it scores of the “ rostrate” workers rushed out (some of which, 
with portions of their nest, were exhibited). These workers have a very 
large head conically produced to a sharp point in front, the mouth under- 
neath; and they are without eyes. 
Mr. M‘Lachlan regretted that no winged Termes had been exhibited or 
procured, since without the winged insects it was almost impossible to 
determine the species with certainty. The specimens obtained from the 
tree-nest, exhibited by Miss Ormerod, represented two forms of workers, 
viz., the ordinary condition and a form occurring in many species of 
Termitide, known as nasute or horned workers (“ Arbeiter nasuti”). It 
was a small species, and evidently allied to that exhibited by Mr. Pascoe, 
which was probably Termes opacus, Hagen. In Hagen’s “ Monographie der 
Termiten” (Linnea Kntomologica, vol. x.), much information was given 
in a collective form on the habits of these insects; further interesting 
observations are to be found in Dr. Fritz Miiller’s paper “ Beitraége zur 
Kenntniss der Termiten,’ published in the ‘Jenaische Zeitschrift fiir 
Medicin und Naturwissenschaft,’ vol. vii., and in notes by Mr. H. G. 
Hubbard “ On the Tree-nests of Termites in Jamaica” that appeared in the 
‘ Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History,’ vol. xix. 
Mr. 'l’. R. Billups exhibited a specimen of the rare [chneumon erythreus, 
Gr., taken at Headley Lane, Surrey, in March last, remarking that the 
British Museum collection contained but two examples of this species. Also 
a specimen of Lasiosomus enervis, H.-Sch.,—a rare British Hemipteron,— 
which he captured at Weybridge on the 9th March last. 
The Secretary announced the death of Herr J. H. C. Kawall, at the age 
of eighty-two, on the 29th January last, at Pussen, near Windau (Kurland, 
Russia), of which village he had been pastor fifty-one years. Kawall was a 
general entomologist, but especially studied the Hymenoptera. 
