4e JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATUllAL tilSWHY SOCIETY, 1892. 



lias a life-like notice of it in " Tribes on my Frontier," My expe- 

 rience is that this species has no very fixed habitation. Wherever 

 dead leaves and rubbish have lodged in the fork of a tree a com- 

 munity of longicornis will almost certainly be found; I have also 

 found it under stones, in cavities, &c., &c., and everywhere it was 

 ready to move ofi'to a new site, bag and baggage (orj to speak more 

 correctly, 'larvss and pupse' ) on the smallest provocation. I have 

 seen a whole community start off thusj deserting the nest, on the 

 approach of an army of JEnictuS) news of which had no doubt been 

 brought in by scouts. At Sholapore, I found it specially affecting, 

 as a nesting place, crevices in the masonry plinths of bungalows ; 

 in such positions the entrance to the nest was always strewn with 

 spoils of Oamponotus i whether these represented dead carcases 

 brought home for food, or whether Gamponotus had been attacked 

 and killed, I could never discover. As E. H. A. states, tongicornis 

 is certainly largely carniverous, at any rate, when sharing a bun- 

 galow with humans \ but she also undoubtedly goes in for dairy 

 produce when available. Mr. de Niceville records her as attending 

 larvae of Catochrysops pandava (Hors.) She is too nervous and 

 flighty, however, to make a good dairy farmer, and to me has always 

 represented the " gipsy type " in the ant world* 



43. P. clandestina (Mayr)» 

 Poena Districts 



Coonoor, Madras ., E. W. Daly» 



Ceylon Major Yerbury<. 



Calcutta; Colombo G» A» J» Rothney* 



I found several nests, all under stones, each containing an apte- 

 rous $ ; the communities were all small ones* Clandestina is much 

 stouter and less active in her movements than her cousin longicornis. 

 Mr. de Niceville records this species as tending larvae of Polyom- 

 matus hmticus (Lin*). 



Note. — I have taken two other species in the Poena Districts 

 and have received several more, viz. : — 



(1) Mt. Abu F. Gleadow. 



(2) Burma E. Y. Watson. 



(3) Ceylon Major Yerbury, 



(4) Ceylon Major Yerbury. 



