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by Mr. Bates are particularly valuable and interesting. Of Pseudo- 

 myrma oculata he says: — " Its colonies I have hitherto found only in 

 the tumuli of different species of Termes : in some instances I found 

 them in spacious elliptical chambers, in the outer walls of the Ter- 

 mitaria ; one colony to each chamber ; the chambers wide apart and 

 having no connection with each other; the number of individuals 

 few in each colony ; the pupae are not enclosed in cocoons. In some 

 instances I have found them with their larva [larvae] and pupae 

 within the same chambers as the Termes, in different parts of the 

 Termitarium ; the workers are sometimes found in numbers coursing 

 rapidly over trees and herbage. Another species [of Pseudomyrma] 

 constructs its Formicarium in the pith tube of dried tw r igs ; the 

 colonies are not numerous." 



Part V. contains 48 pp. of 'Transactions,' 16 pp. of ' Proceedings, 7 

 and five plates, and is charged 5s. 



The papers, in addition to the conclusion of Mr. Smith's Descrip- 

 tions of Brazilian ants, are — 



' Monograph of the Australian species of Chrysomela, Phyllocharis 

 and allied Genera.' By J. S. Baly, Esq. 



'Observations on the Honey Bee, in continuation of the Prize 

 Essay of the Entomological Society for the year 1852.' By J. G. 

 Desborough, Esq. 



1 Descriptions of some New Species of Lucanidae.' By J. O. West- 

 wood, F.L.S., &c. 



Continuing our extracts from Mr. Bates' ' Observations on the 

 Brazilian Formicidae,' that indefatigable traveller observes of Eciton 

 legionis, a new species : — " I have only found it in open, sandy and 

 grassy campos ; it shows the same irritability and hurried movement 

 as the other species ; is very quick to break line and to attack 

 furiously any intruding obstacle. In a procession which I observed 

 there were no individuals with the largely developed mandibles, as in 

 other species. The locality in which I observed it being an open 

 district, it afforded me an opportunity of observing some parts of its 

 habits, and the business which occupies its immense processions ; 

 the columns of the other species I have always observed marching in 

 the dense thorny thickets of the forest, so that the same facilities for 

 observation do not offer themselves, and no human endurance can 

 sustain the overwhelming attacks, the cruel sting and bite of these 

 formidable insects. In this smaller species, although they climb by 

 hundreds over one's person, in the same sudden way, the sting is not 

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