10;]6 jrn. A. LOVERiDGE : notes on 



was submitted to Mi-. Tarns who found that it contained a 

 parasitic pupa which Dr. Waterston identifies as a species of 

 Brachymeria {= Ghalcis auct.). An anterior prominence on the 

 moth pupa resembles that found in the Notodontid genus 

 Thaumetopcea, known to have processional larva). The species 

 may have been T. apologetica Strnnd, I'rom Enst Africn, or 

 »»n allied form. 



ORTHOPTERA. 



The specimens referred to were received for Nos. 83, 85, 80, 

 89, 91, 92, 93, 94 «, 95, and 98. 



81. OuTiioPTERA have many enemies. In the stomach of a 

 Mungoose (Mungos rmmgo colonus) shot to-day were cockrojiclies, 

 locusts, grasshoppers, and a number of other insects, (Morogoro, 

 ll.xi. 17.) 



A Kestrel's {Cerchneis tinnunculus) stomach contents showed 

 it to have been feeding chiefly on locusts. (Morogoro, 4.xii. 17.) 



A Cattle Egret {liuhulcus ibis) had a great number of grass- 

 hoppers in its stomach. (Morogoro, 14. xii. 17.) 



Gryllimm. 



82. RiiACiiVTUYi'ES MEMHUANACEUS Dm. My first ac(|naintance 

 with this huge cricket was at Morogoro, where an oilicer of the 

 Flying Corps brought me a specimen 2| inches long and | l>road 

 at the widest part; he ratheruptly compared its song to the hum 

 of a gnome engine. (Morogoro, 3. v. 17.) 



One of these crickets was shrilling away beneath a shrub two 

 nights ago : my boy located it, but it dived down its hole ; he 

 made a big excavation, but missed it ; last night presumably the 

 same cricket was under the next bush twenty feet away. To- 

 night it was at the back of the house a hundred feet from its last 

 location. I went to see it, and found it was just beginning a 

 burrow into which it dived, but was easily dug out. It had a 

 single egg in the oviduct, not round but slightly pointed at each 

 end. (Kilosa, 12.iv.22.) 



Again, to-night I found a cricket shrilling outside its burrow, 

 and was able to appi'oach within a foot of it with an acetylene 

 lamp, and stand some time before it made off. It also was a 

 female with an egg ready for oviposition. Within a few inches 

 of it was a gecko (Hemidactylus squamulatus) perfectly motion- 

 less as if dazed by, or enjoying, the noise. (Kilosa, 13. iv. 22.) 



Each morning one sees little heaps of excavated sand about the 

 camp, and near them are tracks, not unlike those of a i-at at fii-st 

 glance, which show the extent of the insect's nocturnal peregrina- 

 tions. At dawn, and for about an hour afterwards, it is not 

 uncommon to find stragglers still above ground. If dugout they 

 are usually nob more than a foot below the surface. Lately I 

 have been feeding the small Mungoose {Helogale ivori) upon 



