1028 Mil, A. LOVERIDQE : NOTES ON 



another ant of the same species attached to its antennte by the 

 jaws of tlie dead head. Presumably the wearer of this ornament 

 had bitten his comrade in half during some argument. (Moro- 

 , goro, 30. vi. 17.) . 



COLEOPTEEA. 

 The actual specimen referred to was only received for No. G5. 



62. CiciNDiiLA niiiiVicoLLis Wied. A number of these beetles 

 were collected on sandy ground and paths by the liver-bank ; they 

 harmonized so well with the ground that they were very 

 difficult to see. They were also extremely active, taking to wing 

 on the slightest provocation. (Morogoro, 14. xii, 16.) 



63. A tiger-beetle apparently of the same species, flying in front 

 of i\]0, kept settling motionless on the path. I, thinking it was a 

 tsetse, wondered what it was doing there, seeing we were in a 

 cultivated area of some extent, so jumped oft* my cycle and then 

 saw that it was a beetle, I stalked it, and shot it with a garter! 

 (Kilosa, l.vii. 21.) 



64. Anthia striatopunctata Guer., J. This large Carabid 

 was seen running across the arc of light in front of my tent 

 about dusk. In attempting to pick it up, I thrice felt a coolness 

 upon my hand — the fine spraying of a licjuid. Just then my boy 

 arrived with a killing-bottle, and as he knelt to seize the beetle, 

 it discharged this secretion full in his eyes, which were at least 

 eighteen inches away, I believe. The pain caused was agonizing, 

 and though bathed immediately, his eyes became very bloodshot 

 and swollen, and so remained for three days, when the discomfort 

 of the protruding eyes had practically subsided, tliough they 

 were not normal for some time afterwards. The odour Avas 

 very powerful, flying to the eyes like formalin *. The beetle 

 is quite common in the district. (Izikisia, Tabora Dist., 

 15.xi. 21.) 



65. PoPiLLiA LIGTJLATA Ohs., J (Rutelidse), Among a series of 

 these beetles collected by Salimu during the past week was a 

 Rutelid whose right meso-leg was missing — had never grown. On 

 the opposite side the middle leg had three feet Avith one base — 

 that is to say, the beetle had five legs on the one side and only 

 two on the other. (Uluguru Mtns., 1. iii. 1921.) 



66. Mylabuis oculata var. tricolou Gerst. (Mylabrida^: ITete- 

 romera). In my note on the ovipositing of this beeble which was 

 kindly communicated by Prof. Poulton, he drew attention to the 

 typescript being indistinct as regai'ds the fraction of an inch 

 expressing the length of the eggs (Proc. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1921, 

 p. xcii). This should read one-eighth of an inch, and not one-third. 



