220 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
Mr. F. P. Pascoe remarked that many years ago he had found a similar 
tree-nest in a forest in the Organ Mountains in Brazil, but did not at the 
time examine it; he learnt, however, that it was known there as the 
“ negro-head,” a name very suggestive of its appearance. The year before 
last he had met with a somewhat similar nest near Para, but larger and of 
a lighter colour. They were both attached to trees, five or six feet from 
the ground, not to branches. The Para nest was. very friable, and on 
breaking into it scores of the “ rostrate” workers rushed out (some of which, 
with portions of their nest, were exhibited). These workers have a very 
large head conically produced to a sharp point in front, the mouth under- 
neath; and they are without eyes. 
Mr. M‘Lachlan regretted that no winged Termes had been exhibited or 
procured, since without the winged insects it was almost impossible to 
determine the species with certainty. The specimens obtained from the 
tree-nest, exhibited by Miss Ormerod, represented two forms of workers, 
viz., the ordinary condition and a form occurring in many species of 
Termitide, known as nasute or horned workers (‘ Arbeiter nasuti”). It 
was a small species, and evidently allied to that exhibited by Mr. Pascoe, 
which was probably Termes opacus, Hagen. In Hagen’s ‘‘ Monographie der 
Termiten” (Linnea Entomologica, vol. x.), much information was given 
in a collective form on the habits of these insects; further interesting 
observations are to be found in Dr. Fritz Miiller’s paper “ Beitrage zur 
Kenntniss der Termiten,” published in the ‘Jenaische Zeitschrift fir 
Medicin und Naturwissenschaft,’ vol. vii., and in notes by Mr. H. G. 
Hubbard “ On the Tree-nests of Termites in Jamaica” that appeared in the 
‘ Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History,’ vol. xix. 
Mr. T. R. Billups exhibited a specimen of the rare Ichneumon erythreus, 
Gr., taken at Headley Lane, Surrey, in March last, remarking that the 
British Museum collection contained but two examples of this species. Also 
a specimen of Lasiosomus enervis, H.-Sch.,—a rare British Hemipteron,— 
which he captured at Weybridge on the 9th March last. 
The Secretary announced the death of Herr J. H. C. Kawall, at the age 
of eighty-two, on the 29th January last, at Pussen, near Windau (Kurland, 
Rassia), of which village he had been pastor fifty-one years. Kawall was a 
general entomologist, but especially studied the Hymenoptera. 
Mr. R. M‘Lachlan read the “ Description of a new species of Corduliina 
(Gomphomaeromia fallax) from Ecuador.” 
Mr. J. B. Bridgman communicated a paper entitled ‘‘ Some additions to 
Mr. Marshall's Catalogue of British Ichnewnonide,” in which upwards of 
sixty species were introduced as new to the British fauna, thirteen being 
described as new to science. Mr. Billups and Mr. Fitch exhibited most of 
the specimens referred to.—E. A. Fire, Secretary. 
