NOTHS ON SOME BEES AND WASPS FROM BURMA, 187 
Common, May to October. 
Cerceris instablis, Smith. 
Common, May to October. I have found it solitary buzzing 
about flowers. 
Eumenes esurtens, Fabricius. 
Eumenes flavo~picta, Blanchard. 
Humenes petiolata, Fabricius. 
All these are common about flowers from May to October. The 
last-mentioned builds a nest very like that of Pelopeus, only storing 
it with caterpillars instead of spiders. One nest I broke open con- 
tained the larva of some species of Tortrix. 
Rhynchium brunneum, Fabricius. 
Very common. Very frequently chooses its nest-holes in the 
wood-work of houses, and stores it like Humenes with caterpillars. 
Rhynchium metallicum, de Saussure. 
Common, June to October. 
Polistes hebroeus, Fabricius. 
Polistes stigma, Fabricius. an 
Both these are common, making their nests in June about the 
eaves of houses. 
Vespa magnifica, Smith. 
Karen Hills, 8,000 feet. Pegu Yoma, 1,000 feet. A huge hornet 
making its nest in hollow trees. The Burmans and Karens hold it 
in great fear. In investigating a nest: too closely I was once stung 
by three of these insects in the face. The pain was something 
dreadful; my whole face and head swoll up, nausea and violent 
retching followed, and it was not till twenty-four hours afterwards 
that the inflammation began to subside. For two months after I 
was stung I felt the effects, in a numbed feeling on the forehead 
and cheek, where the stings had entered. 
Stilbum splendidum, Fabricius. 
A beautiful but common and widely-spread insect, found also in 
Europe and Africa. It lays its eggs in the cells of Pelopeus. 
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ON THE CULTIVATION OF FERNS FROM SPORES. 
By M. H. Sraruine. 
(Read at the Society’s Meeting on 2nd July, 1888.) 
Tar paper this evening will be a practical description of the difi- 
culties which attend, and the best way of growing ferns from spores, 
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