﻿PilOCEEDINGS 
  OF 
  THE 
  FOURTTI 
  ENTOMOLOGICAL 
  IFEETIKU 
  331 
  

  

  known 
  to 
  me. 
  After 
  much 
  looking 
  around 
  I 
  retreated 
  a 
  few 
  paces 
  that 
  

   I 
  had 
  advanced 
  during 
  the 
  [continuance 
  of 
  the] 
  sound 
  and 
  then 
  I 
  heard 
  

   this 
  noise 
  again. 
  Then 
  I 
  most 
  carefully 
  paid 
  every 
  attention 
  and 
  saw 
  

   this 
  kind 
  of 
  White 
  Ant 
  under 
  my 
  feet 
  and 
  when 
  I 
  repeatedly 
  interrupted 
  

   their 
  line 
  in 
  various 
  ways, 
  I 
  observed 
  that, 
  in 
  cases 
  w^here 
  they 
  were 
  

   disturbed, 
  they 
  raised 
  up 
  their 
  bodies 
  a 
  little, 
  and 
  with 
  a 
  vibratory 
  

   movement 
  thereof 
  (" 
  mit 
  einer 
  Federkraft 
  damit 
  ") 
  struck 
  downwards 
  

   again 
  wnth 
  their 
  horny 
  mandibles 
  on 
  the 
  dry 
  leaves. 
  By 
  this 
  means 
  was 
  

   occasioned 
  this 
  rain 
  of 
  blows 
  of 
  the 
  large 
  continuous 
  crowd. 
  Precisely 
  

   this, 
  upon 
  my 
  narrative, 
  has 
  an 
  English 
  Captain, 
  Herr 
  Cotgrave, 
  of 
  the 
  

   Tanjore 
  Garrison, 
  quite 
  recently 
  put 
  to 
  the 
  test 
  also 
  in 
  a 
  jungly 
  place. 
  

   Meseems 
  that 
  these 
  insects 
  ought 
  to 
  be 
  named 
  Convulsionarii 
  .'\ 
  

  

  I 
  now 
  close 
  my 
  review 
  of 
  these 
  insects 
  with 
  a 
  third 
  and 
  undoubtedly 
  

   distinct 
  species 
  which 
  I 
  have 
  only 
  come 
  across 
  in 
  desert 
  places 
  (" 
  Wueste- 
  

   neyen 
  ") 
  in 
  two 
  localities 
  widely 
  separated 
  from 
  one 
  another. 
  Firstly, 
  

   I 
  found 
  them 
  on 
  the 
  summit 
  (" 
  Rucken 
  ") 
  of 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  so-called 
  Pallia- 
  

   catti 
  Mountains, 
  J 
  called 
  Nagori, 
  at 
  the 
  foot 
  of 
  a 
  rock-fissure 
  [from 
  which 
  

   was] 
  projecting 
  a 
  small 
  portion 
  of 
  the 
  nest 
  of 
  which, 
  as 
  well 
  as 
  of 
  the 
  

   insects, 
  it 
  was 
  only 
  possible 
  for 
  me 
  to 
  collect 
  a 
  small 
  sample. 
  The 
  rock 
  

   was 
  moderately 
  overgrown 
  with 
  Byssus 
  antiquitatis. 
  And 
  even 
  the 
  

   little 
  I 
  had 
  obtained 
  I 
  lost 
  in 
  going 
  down 
  from 
  this 
  very 
  high 
  mountain, 
  

   as 
  I 
  found 
  myself 
  between 
  two 
  and 
  three 
  o'clock 
  in 
  the 
  afternoon 
  in 
  

   thick 
  undergrowth 
  where 
  there 
  was 
  no 
  breath 
  of 
  wind 
  and 
  the 
  tempera- 
  

   ture 
  nearly 
  34 
  degree-; 
  above 
  zero 
  on 
  the 
  Reaumur 
  scale 
  [108'5 
  

   Fahrenheit], 
  whence 
  I 
  fell 
  down 
  exhausted 
  with 
  the 
  usual 
  consequences 
  

   (" 
  und 
  die 
  Folgen 
  davon 
  hatte, 
  die 
  dabey 
  gewohnlich 
  sind,"). 
  Under 
  

   more 
  fortunate 
  circumstances 
  I 
  found 
  them 
  * 
  for 
  the 
  second 
  time 
  in 
  

  

  Ceylon, 
  where 
  I 
  [? 
  omission 
  in 
  text] 
  through 
  the 
  so 
  exceedingly 
  

  

  kind 
  assistance 
  of 
  Commander 
  Christian 
  Rose, 
  who, 
  besides 
  being 
  him- 
  

   self 
  a 
  scholar, 
  is 
  at 
  the 
  same 
  time 
  also 
  a 
  great 
  promoter 
  of 
  the 
  aims 
  

   tending 
  thereto 
  and 
  has 
  shown 
  himself 
  such 
  especially 
  towards 
  me. 
  To 
  

  

  f 
  Termes 
  convulsionarius, 
  Koenig. 
  This 
  species 
  is 
  not 
  shown 
  in 
  the 
  Plate 
  which 
  

   accompanied 
  Kcenig's 
  paper 
  but 
  his 
  description 
  of 
  the 
  size, 
  colour, 
  and 
  especially 
  the 
  

   habits 
  of 
  his 
  sjiecies 
  can 
  leave 
  no 
  doubt 
  as 
  to 
  its 
  correct 
  identification 
  in 
  the 
  mind 
  of 
  

   anyone 
  who 
  has 
  encountered 
  the 
  wonderful 
  processions 
  of 
  this 
  Termite. 
  A 
  full 
  

   description 
  of 
  its 
  bionomics 
  and 
  structure 
  is 
  reserved 
  for 
  another 
  occasion 
  and 
  it 
  will 
  

   suffice 
  to 
  note 
  here 
  that 
  this 
  is 
  the 
  same 
  species 
  which 
  was 
  redescribed 
  by 
  Desneux, 
  more 
  

   than 
  a 
  hundred 
  years 
  later, 
  under 
  the 
  name 
  of 
  Termes 
  estherce 
  (Ann. 
  ISoc, 
  Ent., 
  Beige 
  

   1907, 
  p, 
  390). 
  T. 
  B. 
  F. 
  

  

  % 
  The 
  Nagori 
  Hills, 
  some 
  40 
  miles 
  North-West 
  of 
  Madras 
  City, 
  are 
  perhaps 
  referred 
  

   to. 
  See 
  page 
  315. 
  

  

  * 
  The 
  species 
  found 
  in 
  Ceylon, 
  Eutermes 
  monoceros, 
  was 
  undoubtedly 
  distinct 
  from 
  

   that 
  found 
  by 
  Koenig 
  in 
  the 
  Palliacatti 
  Hills, 
  as 
  E. 
  monoceros 
  is 
  not 
  known 
  to 
  occur 
  in 
  

   India, 
  E. 
  monoceros, 
  Koenig, 
  is 
  shown 
  in 
  Plate 
  LI 
  I, 
  figures 
  10, 
  11 
  (Soldier), 
  and 
  these 
  

   figures 
  must 
  have 
  been 
  drawn 
  from 
  Sinhalese 
  specimens, 
  as 
  Kcenig 
  evidently 
  implies 
  in 
  

   the 
  t€xt 
  that 
  he 
  lost 
  the 
  specimens 
  collected 
  in 
  the 
  " 
  so-called 
  Palliacatti 
  Mountains." 
  

   T. 
  B. 
  F. 
  

  

  