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  flying 
  frooly 
  hy 
  day 
  and 
  I 
  tlnco 
  (.iincs 
  ,savv 
  hinls 
  vvi(.li 
  fidslily 
  

   cau^lii 
  spc.ciinons. 
  Tlie 
  culprits 
  were; 
  J'loccii.s 
  reichciiowi 
  

   (Kisclicr), 
  Ijdiiiiis 
  hunieralis 
  (Staiiloy), 
  and 
  Pjiciioiioius 
  har- 
  

   hiiliis 
  (Ddsf.). 
  Ah 
  rc-^iirds 
  iJic 
  lawl. 
  niinicd 
  iJic 
  niolJi 
  was 
  still 
  

   liviiifi; 
  when 
  1 
  first 
  saw 
  it, 
  iuid 
  I 
  watclicd 
  tlu; 
  bird 
  struf^<i;ling 
  

   with 
  it 
  until 
  it 
  Hucccechul 
  in 
  getting 
  rid 
  of 
  the; 
  wings 
  and 
  Hew 
  

   nil' 
  with 
  tlui 
  remains 
  (1 
  S(!cured 
  the, 
  wings 
  for 
  you). 
  This 
  

   observai.ion 
  sihmus 
  to 
  me 
  of 
  some 
  int(!rest, 
  as 
  it 
  shows 
  what 
  a 
  

   powerful 
  ins(ict 
  eaii 
  ))e 
  taekUHJ 
  by 
  a 
  conijtaratively 
  weak 
  bird 
  

   like 
  a 
  bidbid 
  [I'tjcnovohis), 
  and 
  offcctually 
  disposes 
  of 
  the 
  

   .•iiigg(!stion 
  that 
  Danaines 
  and 
  oven 
  Aeracmies 
  arc 
  neglected 
  

   biicause 
  tlu^y 
  arc 
  too 
  large 
  to 
  \n\ 
  majiag(i(l." 
  

  

  KUR'I,'IIKK 
  NOTKS 
  BV 
  W. 
  A. 
  LaMHOKN 
  on 
  'I'lIK 
  MAUITS 
  OK 
  

  

  TUK 
  Ki.Y 
  Hi<;n(!ALIA. 
  i'rof. 
  i'cjULToN 
  said 
  that 
  he 
  had 
  re- 
  

   ijoivcd 
  the 
  following 
  observations, 
  togcither 
  with 
  the 
  numbered 
  

   Kpeeiniens, 
  now 
  (ixhibited 
  to 
  the 
  meeting, 
  from 
  his 
  friend 
  

   Mr. 
  Lajnborn. 
  lie 
  had 
  been 
  kindly 
  helped 
  in 
  the 
  determina- 
  

   tion 
  of 
  tlie 
  flies 
  by 
  Major 
  K. 
  E. 
  Austen, 
  and 
  the 
  ants 
  by 
  Mr. 
  

   W. 
  C. 
  Crawley. 
  TIk^ 
  (ividence 
  sccimcd 
  to 
  prove 
  clearly 
  that 
  

   Bemjalia 
  seeks 
  prey 
  already 
  bitten 
  by 
  ants 
  because 
  it 
  is 
  unable 
  

   to 
  perforate 
  the 
  surface 
  of 
  any 
  but 
  very 
  thin-skinned 
  insects 
  

   such 
  as 
  female 
  Termites, 
  the 
  larva 
  of 
  Sphex 
  or 
  the 
  pupa 
  and 
  

   freshly 
  ennirged 
  imago 
  of 
  the 
  ants 
  themselves, 
  in 
  the 
  succeed- 
  

   ing 
  communication 
  Dr. 
  ii. 
  D. 
  Jl. 
  Ca.r])enter 
  showed, 
  as 
  Dr. 
  

   (laillard 
  had 
  also 
  observed 
  in 
  1908, 
  that 
  the 
  African 
  Bengalia 
  

   r((seinbles 
  the 
  allied 
  Oriental 
  Ochroviyia 
  in 
  its 
  attacks 
  on 
  

   Termites. 
  Jlcferences 
  to 
  earlier 
  observations 
  on 
  both 
  these 
  

   genera 
  of 
  Diptera 
  will 
  be 
  found 
  in 
  J'roc. 
  Ent, 
  Soc, 
  1913, 
  

   ])p. 
  cxxviii-cxxix. 
  To 
  these 
  must 
  now 
  bo 
  added 
  " 
  The 
  

   Mouth-Paiis 
  of 
  Ochromyia 
  jejuna, 
  a 
  Predaceous 
  Muscid," 
  

   with 
  i>l. 
  XLVllI, 
  by 
  Capt. 
  E. 
  W. 
  Cragg, 
  M.D., 
  I.M.S., 
  in 
  

   ind. 
  .b)urn. 
  Med. 
  Kes., 
  vol. 
  v, 
  1917-lH, 
  ]>. 
  5IG. 
  The 
  paper 
  

   C()n(,ains 
  a 
  (hitailod 
  description 
  of 
  tJie 
  mouth-parts 
  and 
  their 
  

   probable 
  us(\ 
  idthough 
  \\w. 
  author 
  omits 
  to 
  notice 
  Mr. 
  E. 
  E. 
  

   dreen's 
  much 
  (^arli(^r 
  investiigat.ion 
  of 
  the 
  tongue 
  of 
  the 
  Ceylon 
  

   8peci(%s 
  of 
  Ochroiiii/id, 
  (l*roc. 
  Kut. 
  Soc, 
  1908, 
  pp. 
  xxvi, 
  xxvii). 
  

   Capt. 
  Cragg 
  (plot.(^s 
  Mr. 
  IJowlett.'s 
  observations 
  on 
  (). 
  jejuna, 
  at 
  

   J*usa, 
  wlun-e 
  the 
  Jlicis 
  were 
  not 
  S(!en 
  attacking 
  Termites 
  but 
  

   oft.en 
  robbinj' 
  various 
  kinds 
  of 
  ants 
  of 
  their 
  larvae. 
  Mr, 
  

  

  