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Mr. W, A. Lamborn also sent a diagram and the photograph, 



taken March 28, reproduced below. 



Mr. Lamborn remarked in the accompanying letter : — 



" You will see that the fungus growth is quite a big thing, 



far larger than any sooty moulds, with which I have been 



Fungi growing on carton shelters built over Coccids by Cremastogaster 

 ants. The dark marks are the openings into the shelters. Photographed, 

 about natural size, March 28, 1914, by W. A. Lamborn, at Moor 

 Plantation, near Ibadan, S. Nigeria. 



familiar in connection with Coccids, etc., for a very long time. 

 I will collect a good number of the ants and examine the 

 interior of nests, as far as possible, as you suggest. The 

 fungus springs, as you will see, from the shelters, and has no 

 direct communication with the Coccids or their secretions," 



