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  TROGEEDINGS 
  OF 
  THE 
  FOURTH 
  ENTOMOLOGICAL 
  MEETING 
  

  

  mentiou 
  but 
  one 
  instance, 
  I 
  was 
  accompanied 
  free 
  of 
  charge 
  to 
  the 
  jungle 
  

   where 
  the 
  Dutch 
  Company 
  has 
  their 
  large 
  wood-cutting 
  place 
  

   (" 
  Holzhauerey 
  ") 
  [i.e., 
  place 
  in 
  the 
  forest 
  where 
  trees 
  are 
  felled.]. 
  There 
  

   I 
  found, 
  amongst 
  a 
  number 
  of 
  undetermined 
  things 
  in 
  Natural 
  History, 
  

   these 
  insects 
  also, 
  in 
  several 
  nests 
  in 
  hollow 
  trees, 
  most 
  of 
  which 
  were 
  of 
  

   very 
  tall 
  growth 
  (" 
  hochstammigt 
  ") 
  and 
  not 
  so 
  easy 
  to 
  reach. 
  The 
  

   most 
  conveniently 
  situated 
  [for 
  taking 
  down] 
  and 
  largest 
  nest 
  amongst 
  

   these 
  was 
  hanging 
  forward, 
  on 
  a 
  large 
  bough 
  of 
  a 
  very 
  thick 
  tree, 
  

   which 
  is 
  called 
  " 
  Kotu-Moil-Elou 
  " 
  in 
  the 
  Hortus 
  Malabaricus, 
  Part 
  

   V, 
  page 
  3, 
  Table 
  2, 
  and 
  is 
  a 
  new 
  species 
  of 
  Vitex,'' 
  Linn. 
  This 
  

   bough, 
  which 
  was 
  as 
  stout 
  as 
  a 
  man, 
  I 
  had 
  cut 
  of! 
  two 
  ells 
  lower 
  

   down, 
  close 
  to 
  the 
  trunk 
  itself, 
  with 
  the 
  object 
  of 
  finding 
  perhaps, 
  

   the 
  queen 
  of 
  the 
  nest 
  ; 
  but 
  my 
  plan 
  did 
  not 
  succeed. 
  I 
  found 
  

   only 
  that 
  in 
  this 
  space 
  the 
  galleries 
  of 
  these 
  insects 
  were 
  flatter 
  and 
  

   their 
  divisions 
  leaf-like, 
  and 
  these 
  were 
  stuck 
  together 
  out 
  of 
  

   small, 
  longitudinal, 
  smooth, 
  inwardly 
  and 
  outwardly 
  coal-black 
  particles, 
  

   among 
  which 
  a 
  little 
  sand 
  and 
  earthy 
  matter 
  was 
  mixed. 
  When 
  thrown 
  

   into 
  a 
  charcoal-fire, 
  a 
  fragment 
  of 
  this 
  nest 
  exudes 
  before 
  burning 
  a 
  

   black-brown 
  oily 
  moisture. 
  The 
  smell 
  of 
  the 
  burning 
  is 
  vegetable, 
  the 
  

   ash 
  white, 
  and 
  the 
  specimen 
  crumbles 
  away 
  of 
  itself. 
  On 
  pulverising 
  

   these 
  crumbled 
  ashes, 
  one 
  then 
  finds 
  the 
  little 
  earthy 
  material 
  [which 
  the 
  

   fragment 
  of 
  the 
  nest 
  originally 
  contained]. 
  A 
  specimen 
  of 
  the 
  nest 
  

   placed 
  in 
  spirits 
  of 
  wine 
  imparts 
  to 
  it 
  a 
  greenish 
  colour 
  and 
  a 
  mossy 
  

   odour 
  : 
  but 
  it 
  does 
  nof 
  thereby 
  become 
  more 
  fragile. 
  Still, 
  I 
  think 
  that 
  

   the 
  black 
  colour 
  of 
  these 
  nests 
  is 
  mostly 
  caused 
  by 
  the 
  insect 
  ; 
  although 
  

   at 
  the 
  very 
  beginning 
  I 
  supposed 
  that 
  they 
  had 
  their 
  colour 
  from 
  the 
  

   Byssus 
  antiquitatis 
  ; 
  but 
  here 
  in 
  these 
  forests 
  I 
  looked 
  around 
  for 
  that 
  

   and 
  noted 
  down 
  all 
  the 
  mosses 
  growing 
  on 
  the 
  trees 
  here. 
  Very 
  rarely 
  

   I 
  found 
  Lichen 
  scriptus, 
  sanguinanus,fuscO'ater, 
  and 
  others, 
  from 
  which 
  

   the 
  black 
  colour 
  might 
  be 
  expected. 
  More 
  commonly, 
  I 
  found 
  white- 
  

   grey 
  lichens 
  and 
  red-coloured 
  ones, 
  but 
  Byssus 
  antiquitatis 
  was 
  not 
  to 
  be 
  

   seen 
  at 
  all. 
  

  

  Concerning 
  the 
  insects 
  themselves, 
  it 
  is 
  not 
  their 
  peculiar 
  blackness 
  

   and 
  differently 
  constructed 
  nests 
  which 
  I 
  have 
  taken 
  as 
  the 
  distinguishing 
  

   characteristics 
  of 
  a 
  distinct 
  species 
  ; 
  but 
  their 
  differently 
  shaped 
  mandi- 
  

   bles, 
  their 
  spherical 
  necks 
  f 
  (" 
  geballeter 
  Nacken 
  "), 
  and 
  the 
  obliquely 
  

   depressed, 
  pointed, 
  moderately 
  large 
  horn 
  on 
  the 
  forehead 
  of 
  the 
  soldiers 
  ; 
  

   and 
  this 
  will 
  be 
  sufficient 
  to 
  distinguish 
  them 
  from 
  the 
  others. 
  From 
  

   this 
  point 
  of 
  view 
  I 
  have 
  taken 
  them 
  for 
  a 
  new 
  species 
  of 
  horned 
  White 
  

  

  * 
  Vitcx 
  pubcscons, 
  Valil. 
  

  

  jTho 
  word 
  "neck" 
  liere 
  evidently 
  roferts 
  to 
  the 
  posterior 
  ])ortion 
  of 
  the 
  licad 
  itself 
  

   and 
  not 
  to 
  the 
  junction 
  bolwoen 
  head 
  and 
  thorax. 
  Sej 
  Plato 
  Lll, 
  figures 
  10 
  and 
  U. 
  

  

  