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Dr. G. D. H. Carpenter’s Experiments on 
known to the Baganda as “ E’jansi”—(see 18)— 
procryptic, brown with yellow marks, and in flight 
showing purple wings. This specimen was a 9 about 
4 inches long. M. seized this, with the greatest 
eagerness, by the body, biting off the head. The 
insect kicked so strongly with its spiny hind legs that 
M. was considerably inconvenienced by them and 
with a little noise of protest bit the hind legs off, 
eating the muscular femora, and discarding the spiny 
tibiae, with the exception of which the whole of this 
large insect was eaten. This species formed one of 
the staple articles of food in later experiments. 
Obs. 34. Sp. 24.—Tenebrionid, Physophrynus, 
an undescribed new species: large, rotund, black 
beetle, much like 13 in habits and general appearance, 
but considerably larger. M. was not much interested 
in this; it lay on the ground with legs held stiffly. 
He looked hard at it, licked it, gave it a gentle bite 
which made no impression owing to the hardness of 
the integuments, and then put it down with an air 
of having had quite enough of it, and rubbed it on 
the ground. I induced him to try again; he gave it 
some more gentle bites which made no impression on 
it, and pulled its head off, but would not eat any of 
the viscera that came out. 
Obs. 35. Sp. 25.—Carabid, Polyhirma, a species not 
in the British Museum : a member of a synaposematic 
group of ground-beetles characterised by black colour 
with a pair of dull white markings on the elytra, and 
sometimes an anterior, median, longitudinal, white line 
along the elytral suture. This specimen was one of 
the smaller and more delicate members of the group. 
M. would not touch it, and merely rubbed his hands 
on the ground. 
Obs. 36. Sp. 26.—Curculionid: a ground-weevil, 
earthy brown in colour, with hard and rugose elytra, 
of slow movement. At rest quite procryptic. This 
was eaten with relish and without hesitation. 
Obs. 37. Sp. 27.—Elaterid: a medium-sized, 
“ordinary looking,’ brown species of “ click beetle.” 
This was also eaten with relish, 
Obs, 38. Sp. 28.—Hemipteron : a solidly built, rose- 
pink, wingless bug found freely exposed on a dead 
tree. I quite expected that M. would have nothing 
