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Four held two earwigs (in three instances both insects were in the 

 same partition). 



One held an earwig in one partition, and a ladybird beetle and a dip- 

 terous larva in another partition. 



Three held similar dipterous larvee. 



One held a small spider and two small flies. 



Five held rove-beetles of two species, one of which proved to he new. 



Eight held small chrysomelid beetles. 



One held a chrysomelid and a carab beetle, a weevil and a small grey 

 spider. 



Two held small moths. 



One held a small moth, a mosquito, and a homopterous insect. 



Thus almost fifty per cent, of the seed- cases contained one or more 

 earwigs, and some of these, as well as others of the insects, were hereto- 

 fore unknown species. The conditions at the time of collecting these 

 were as follow. At this season, mid-April snow covered the ground deeply 

 and remained unmelted for three days. The preceding week had been 

 warm and clear, and insects were abundant, and all those now iound in 

 the seed-cases were alive, although too numbed to fly or to do more than 

 move their legs weakly. In no instances, were more than half the seeds 

 remaining in the cases, and where the stems were thin and more pliant, 

 almost all the seeds had been thrown out during the winter. The lily 

 clumps were large and a dozen or more stems sprang from a circular mass 

 of dead, prostate, whitened leaves, the whole forming a mat about a yard 

 in diameter. At this season new leaves were sj^routing, and before 

 covered by the snow, showed as straight, vertical, green shoots several 

 inches in height. 



Text identifications. 



Himalaya Raven, Corvus corax iibetanum, Hodgs. 



Earwigs, Homotagesfece (Bormans). Forficula ■planticollis, Kirby. 



Ladybird Beetles, Coccinella 1 -punctata, Liun. 



Two small flies, An undescribed Criorhina and a number 



of the Ccrdyluridce. 

 Rove Beetle, Osonius belbei, Beurh. 

 Chrysomelid Beetles, Trichotheca Jiirta, Baly. 

 Carab Beetle, Opisthius indicus, Chaiidoir. 

 Weevil, Tanymecus sp. 

 Moth, A noctuid. 

 Homopteron, of the family Jas-sidce.^' 



Baghownie Fty., Laherii Sarai, CHAS. M. INGLIS, m.b.o.u. 



13th July 1919. 



No. XIV.— THE BLACK-BREASTED KALIJ PHEASANT {GENN^DS 

 HORSFIELDI KORSFIELDI) EAST OF THE IRRAWADDY. 



Through the kindness of Mr. B. B. Ormaston I have received a fine 

 specimen of this pheasant obtained S. E. of Myitkynia on the East bank 

 of the Irrawaddy and at an elevation of 3,000 ft. in January 1916. 

 Although Mr. Stuart Baker gives Myitkynia as one of the localities in 

 which this species (type specimens of G. batenani) has been got, yet being 

 on the eastern border of this bird's habitat 1 consider it interesting enough 

 to record. I may mention that the central rectrices are slightly 

 vermiculated near their bases though the bird is fully adult. 



Baghownie Fty., Laheria Sarai, CHAS. M. INGLIS, m.b.o.u. 



lUh March 1919. 



