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Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [March, 1910. 



Parnara and Papilio were also seen on yellow Cotton 

 flowers between Nandurbar and Taloda in West Khandesh on 

 September 29th, 1909 : but flower- visiting insects, except the 

 injurious beetle, — Glycyphana versicolor, Fabr. ; — were there ex- 

 ceedingly rare. 



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Elceodendron glaucum, Pers. 



The yellow-green somewhat massed flowers have a large 

 disc, bearing a considerable amount of honey. 

 They open widely, facing upwards or horizon- 

 tally. At first they are male, the stamens 

 standing up as in the upper figure : then they 

 become female, the filaments, having bent as 

 in BhamnuSj and the style elongated. The 

 lower figure represents the flower in the second 



stage. 



A few hours of leisure spent at Wasali, 

 Buldana district, on September 23rd, while 

 waiting for the carts that were bringing my 

 camp-furniture, enabled me to collect the fol- 

 lowing visitors at honey on the flowers. 



Fig. 1. — Upper 

 flower, early or 

 male state ; lower 

 flower, later or fe- 

 male state, x 2. 



DIPTERA. — Syrphidae. Eristalis arvorum, F. d and $ 

 plentiful. Megaspis crassus, F. 9 . Syrphus sp. Muscidae. 

 Lucilia dux, Erichs., plentiful. Musca sp. near M. domestica, 

 L. Tachi^idae. 1 sp. 



Hardwickia binata, Roxb. 



Hardwickia binata is an anemophilous Leguminosa, with 

 the light foliage and flexible branchlets of a birch tree. On 

 these thin flexible branchlets are produced in September the 

 panicles of yellow green flowers. Apparently the flowers open 



chiefly at 



night. 



As the sepals part, the stigma is thrust out 



by the straightening of curves in the style : it straightens slowly, 



means 



lateral position. After the stigma has thus been removed to a 

 position and is no longer under the flower, the anthers emerge 

 and dehisce. 



Fig. 2. 



•On the left younger stages — ovary and style and stigma : 

 pening and wide open flower, x 2. 



