94 DE. J. shoett's account oir a heeonrx 



beneath thinly clothed with cinereous pile or short pubescence ; the 

 wings subhyaline, the nervui'es black; the posterior tibiae broadly 

 expanded towards their apex, and fringed outwardly with black 

 pubescence. Abdomen conical, and thinly clothed beneath with 

 cinereous pubescence. 

 Hab. New Guinea. 



3. Trigona atricornis. T. melleo-flava ; flagello, tibiis tarsisque 

 interraediis et posticis nigris. 



Worker. Length 2 lines. Honey-yellow, smooth and shining; the 

 inner edge of the mandibles rufo-piceous ; the flagellum black, slightly 

 fulvous beneath. Thorax : a glassy-smooth and shining pale space 

 enclosed by a suture ; the wings hyaline and iridescent, the nervures 

 dark fusco-ferruginous ; the intermediate and posterior tarsi, the pos- 

 terior tibiae outside, except at their base, and a line on the posterior 

 femora above black. The two apical segments of the abdomen 

 thinly covered with white downy pile ; beneath, the segments fringed 

 with pale hairs. 



Hab. New Guinea. 



DESCEIPTION OF PLATE IV. 



3 a. Head of ditto. 



Account of a Heronry, and Breeding-place of other "Water-birds^ 

 in Southern India. By John Shobtt, M.D., P.L.S. 



[Eead Nov. 3, 1864.] 



In the Madras district, about fifty miles from Madras and twelve 

 miles from Chingleput in a south-easterly direction, is a small vil- 

 lage called VadenThaugul, which means literally " Hunter's Eest," 

 from vaden, "hunter," and tliaugul, "rest." To the south of the 

 village lies one of those small tanks called Thaugid by the Tamil 

 ryots, implying a water-rest or temporary reservoir, from which 



