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On August 3 last Prof. Poulton was collecting Thrips with 

 Mr. H. M. Giles, at Mundaring Weir, in the Darling Kange, 

 near Perth, W.A. While shaking the flowers of a Wattle over 

 a sheet of cardboard, there fell a Lycaenid larva which bore 

 the most remarkable resemblance to the yellow flufiy balLs 

 of the inflorescence. The likeness, mainly due to the long 

 yellow hairs with which the larva was clothed, was increased 

 by its attitude, the body being rather strongly curved. Mr. 

 G. A. Waterhouse, to whom he had described the caterpillar, 

 had told him that no such Lycaenid larva was known in 

 Australia. The Acacia was a small tree, one of a series 

 evidently artificially planted by the roadside. The name, 

 given by Mr. Giles, had been confirmed by Dr. Otto Stapf, 

 F.R.S., so far as it was possible to determine the species from 

 the dried flowers alone. A. baileyana was only known wild 

 in a limited area of New South Wales, but the Mundaring 

 plant was not wild. The larva pixpated without any supply 

 of food beyond the quickly drying blossoms enclosed with it, 

 and the imago emerged August 30, on the P. and 0. steamer 

 ' Malwa,' ofi Albany, W.A. 



Dr. G. D. H. Caepenter's observations on Dorylus 



NIGRICANS, IlLIG., IN DaMBA AND BUGALLA ISLANDS.— Prof. 



Poulton read the following record of observations from the 

 same letter as that quoted in the succeeding note on A. egialea. 

 Dr. Carpenter's fu.rther conclusions as to the habits of the 

 Driver ants of these islands in the N.W. of the Victoria 

 Nyanza had been published in Proc. Ent. Soc, Lond., 1913, 

 cxxviii. 



■' I have got some notes for you on Dorylus, which I think 

 may be of interest to the Entomological Society. I send them 

 because I have recently been interested in reading Lambom's 

 and Farquharson's notes [Proc. Ent. Soc, Lond., 1913, 

 cxxiii-cxxviii ; 1914, v-viii]. Of com-se I constantly meet 

 them out hunting, and sometimes get them all over me ! As 

 a general rule, in the forest, one can hear them before seeing 

 them. They run up branches and tall stems, and then when 

 they get to the top either fall or drop ofi on to the leaves below, 

 and the pattering noise thus made (like that of tiny raindrops) 

 is very distinctive, and often gives one warning. Thev cer- 



