The Zoologist— July, 1866. 283 



adZt^TT'^ TT"^ '^"' '"^ °'''''"''"' ''^^' * <=o'"-"»nicalion had been 

 addres ed to h,m by the Secretary of the Admiralty, with reference to the depredations 

 commuted at James Town by the white an.s. See ' Proceedings' 1863 p 0!™ 



h^' tt; • Tr ^"' ''' '"^ ^^""^> ^^^^-^ "^^^ subsequently adS;et?to 

 h.m vanous practical suggestions, the" whole of which were incorporated in a letter 



wh,c on the 2nd February, 1864,.he had forwarded for the inform' tion of the Lol 

 Commissioners of the Admiralty. 



ng y abundant, and as the natives appeared to be quite indiflferent to the slings of 

 th e :n,ects, they dug up the nests and consumed the honey with perfect impunity 

 .n the plains the nests were usually found in those of the whL ants! which had p e-' 



ously been ravaged by the anteater, in the hills, in holes and caverns. He had 



Zr ::s !irh ft '"' """ °' ''- ^'^^^'-^ ^^ ^^^^ -« -- °f -- ^-^'^ 



thrL oJ f ' ; I' ""''"'^ '^'' ^" '^' ^^^""^ '^b"- »-°^-°«'l the nests 



threw off swarms, and want of room could not be the cause in those cases. 



V n ed the . ""''r"° ' ^'""^ '''"'' '^''^^^^ ^'^^ -"Pty --, usually ^re" 



^l2^i:Z.^ '''' '''-'''■''' ''- --'^' '^--'--^ ^'^ ^--sed 

 Mn Layard said that both this and Nutfs system had been tried by himself and 

 Mr^^Codess. the most experienced bee-master at the Cape, and had 'failed M. 

 Corless had lately constructed a hive in sections, so that each comb could be r mo!ed 

 and examined with the bees f„ situ; they hoped on his return to be able to se tie 



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Papers read. 

 at Byl^slvat^''"" ^" '^'"^°' <=°'"'»"°icated a paper entitled « Notes of collecting 



desc'tionTo'f3Ts"°''^T' 'T'' " ^^^ ^^^'^^ Ichneumonid.," containing 

 aescripuous ol 39 species of Gravenhorst's genus Tryphon. 



iVfw /'ar^ of ' Transactions.' 



cu W bv^ Dr w',r"'' ':'•;• ^^^ '' *=°"^"'""^ ^^« ^"^^ ^-^^ - «" Ailanthi. 



i)..cr,>;o« 0/ zr./,-:r lamellata.-As I have never found a detailed description of 

 h. animal in print, I here give the characteristics of a specimen which Za "e a 

 ew days ago at Scarborough :-Body rather short, tapering behind, nearly w te 



bac, dotted with slate-gray, specks denser at the sides, and so forming fwo con' 

 picuous but undefined gray lines reaching to the has; of the tentacles. Upp"; 



te tacles long but tumid, slightly constricted near the middle, bluish gray, darkes? 



be '! ,,^""",^.^"'^t^ '^^'^ g-^ '--fifths of the upper ones in length ; sjace 



be ween them white. Foot whi.e, slender, obtusely pointed behind. The reaZe 



contractions took place on alternate sides of the foot. The effect on the shell I very 



