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MlUSEUM NOTES 
their fullest development in the tropics, and, from a 
scientific point of view, are among the most interesting 
as well as one of the largest of the groups of lower 
plants. 
Insects and Their Enemies. 
The following incidents are taken from notes made 
during the last three years in Sarawak. 
(i) Insect Enemies. 
June 8th, 1910. Dayak collector reported having 
taken two beetles together in his net at one sweep; 
they were Stigmatium granulosum, Westwood (Fam. 
Cleridae) and a small Longicorn, Demonax ventralis, 
Gahan, or sp. nr. He stated that he saw the Clerid 
on a log and on catching it in his net, found the 
Longicorn in the mouth of the Clerid, still alive and 
kicking, but that the head dropped off as he boxed 
them. They were both brought to me in one pill-box 
and next day I went to identify them, but found that 
the Longicorn had been still further dismembered and 
eaten, so that identification of that specimen was not 
quite certain. 
January 25th, 1911. A large Dipteron, Laphria 
horrida , Walker, was brought in by a native collector 
together with its prey (dead) a Eucnemid beetle ( Galba 
sp. near wallacei, Perroud). 
{[[) Reptile Enemies. 
July 7th, 1910. Stomach of a lizard, Mabnia rudis, 
Blgr., contained a large hairy spider, the head of an 
Anthribid beetle ( Xenocerus) ? sp., a small cockroach and 
a large Hymenopteron. 
November, 1911. A Danaine butterfly Danais 
aspasia, Fab., noticed on w r all of house with wings 
spread out attached to spider’s web; untouched for 
about three weeks, although lizards are frequently 
running over that wall after moths and other insects. 
(iii) Bird Enemies. 
November 30th, 1911. Stomach of the Dusky 
Broad-bill, Corydon snmatranus, Raffles, contained a large 
green* Phasmid, armed with spiny thorax ( Aruanoidea 
* Green in life, faded to dark grey-brown on examination. 
