Dr. Steinmann Henrik szerk.: Rovartani Közlemények (Folia Entomologica Hungarica 18/1-17. Budapest, 1965)
S. ENDRŐDY-YOUNGA, entomologist , research worker of the Hungarian Natural History Museum. The aim of the expedition was twofold. The main project was the collecting of a suitable soil zoological material, fundamental for a study of the composition of the soil faunas of various primary savannas, forests, agricultural and degraded soils, as well as the changes in their constituting elements as affected by cultivation. The second target was the general zoological collecting of invertebrate animals, for furthering our informations concerning the faunistics of Brazzaville-Congo. The area of activity was confined to the southern part of Brazzaville-Congo. Its centre was the ORSTOM Institute in Brazzaville, from where 4 longer and several smaller trips were made in the vicinity of the Capital. The collecting areas were the following: 1. Méya, an indigeneous settlement near Kindamba, W-NW of Brazzaville (S 3°50'19"- E 14°30'08" ; 360 a.s.l.; 29 Oct. 1963 - 14 Nov. 1963). About 2 km from the settlement, there extends the great Bangou forest, partly primordial partly recent ; otherwise the village is surrounded by the almost continuous secondary savanna of the southern part of the country. The stumpy, shrubby area of the savanna is mottled by the galery forests of the deep river valleys. The small Louolo river, its valley covered by a fine galery forest at the height of Méya, flows 'II of the village, in a southern direction. The limestone underlying the sandy surface of the area crops up in smaller to larger boulders. The limestone formations (pits, caves) are rather young, as witnessed by the weak dripstones and the predictable absence of any typically macrocavernicolous speciality in the faunas of the caves. Of the numerous caves in the area, the expedition made faun istic surveys in merely two: the Méya cave in the immediate vicinity of the settlement (S 3°50*19'' - E 14 o 30*09") was studied in details, whereas the two other •
