38 Dr. G. D. H. Carpenter’s Eaperiments on 
with tint of green on thorax, a young specimen. It is 
by no means conspicuously coloured, but is of apose- 
matic habit. An allied larger species (Hnyaliopsis), 
much darker in colouring, is much disliked by the 
natives of Uganda, who say its bite makes sores. As 
a matter of fact, it readily exudes a yellowish acrid 
fluid. 
I showed the Gymnoproctus to M. on my hand, but 
he would have nothing to do with it. 
Series Au. Obs. 363. Jan. 21. 
Obs. 363. Sp. 177.—Before M. had had anything to 
eat in the early morning I offered this Carabid, a 
species of Tefflus, a large dull-black ground-beetle. 
M. merely danced round it and would not touch it 
except to paw at it. 
Series Av. Obs. 364-369. Jan. 21.—I took M. out 
hunting in the afternoon. 
Obs. 364. Sp. 22.—Acridiid, Dictyophorus productus, 
Bol.: having eaten a lot of grass M. picked up this 
immature medium-sized grasshopper, almost wingless, 
with only rudiments of elytra, light yellow with longi- 
tudinal black stripes, typically aposematic, of very 
sluggish habits. He put it down undamaged. 
Obs. 368. Sp. 179.—Scoliid, Elis donaldsoni Fox : 
to my great astonishment M., in front of a flowering 
bush, reached out and seized this Fossorial wasp, 
dull black with tip of abdomen dull red. M. ate it 
quickly. 
Series Aw. Obs. 370-386. Jan. 21. 
Obs. 384. Sp. 185. Lymantrid: the pupa of a very 
abundant white moth. It is shiny and bright yellow 
and clearly visible in the flimsiest of cocoons. The 
eyes and spiracles are shining black and very con- 
spicuous; the sparse hairs rather long. I offered the 
cocoon to M., who ran away with it to examine it 
further. But it dropped as he went along (N.B.: 
desirable food would not be allowed to drop), and 
instead of picking it up, M. rubbed it very vigorously 
on the ground, as if it might bite or sting, and ate it 
very doubtfully. 
Series Ax. Obs. 387-405. Jan. 23.—At 9 a.m., M. having 
had no insect food, but some banana— 
Obs. 394. Sp. 153. Cetonid, Leucocelis haemor- 
rhoidalis : M. smelt this beetle, put it down with an 
