I  small  mollusc  (non  det.). 
I  purple  berry  of  the  noxious  Lantana. 
3  hard  brown  seeds  (non  det.). 
I  Texas-fever  tick  (M.  annulatus  australis), 
a  partly  eng-orged  female. 
Locality. — Stony  Hill  and  Constant  Spring,  St.  Andrew,  January 
14,  1909. 
No.  2.  Contents  :  Large  fragments  of  the  common  ‘  Green  stink- 
bug’  {Loxa  -flavicollis,  Drury),  m  both 
immature  and  adult  stages,  the  stomach 
being  well  filled  with  the  remains  of  this 
insect. 
No.  3.  Contents  •  2  almost  perfect  examples  of  the  ‘  Green 
stmk-bug  ’  (Z.  flavicollis)  and  many  frag¬ 
ments  of  others,  the  stomach  being  about 
half  filled  with  the  remains  of  this  insect. 
1  beetle  resembling  a  small  Harpalus. 
2  small  grey  weevils  and  a  number  of  frag¬ 
ments  of  another  Rhyncophorous  beetle  of  a 
dark  brown  colour. 
I  spider. 
I  Texas-fever  tick  {M.  annulatus  australis), 
a  partly  engorged  female. 
These  records  give  us  in  a  small  degree  the  nature  of  the  dietary 
of  this  interesting  biid ;  and  it  is  clearly  evident  that  it  is  practically 
an  omnivorous  feeder.  The  finding  of  ticks  is  of  economic  value ; 
while  the  discovery  of  the  green  '  stmk-bug  ’  {Loxa  flavicollis)  is  of 
great  bionomic  interest.  This  bug,  whose  odour  is  horribly  offensive, 
does  not  possess  any  warning  coloration ;  but  being  of  a  uniformly 
green  colour  is  highly  protected  and  difficult  to  discover  when  resting 
among  the  leafy  branches  of  a  tree  or  shrub.  It  is  common,  but  not 
apparently  abundant ;  though  it  is  not  infrequently  attracted  at  night 
by  artificial  light.  The  amount  of  odoriferous  matter  contained  in 
the  stomachs  of  the  birds  found  to  contain  the  remains  of  this  bug 
was  so  offensive  as  to  render  the  operation  of  dissection  positively 
unbearable,  and  the  foetid  odour  was  with  difficulty  removed  from 
