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can be bred out without difficulty. Many of the eggs are parasitised- — 

 and perhajDS it is as well, for there seems to be a superabundance of 

 them and the females must be extremel}^ prolific. The habitat of 

 Bindahara sugriva is South India, Ceylon and Java. It is certainly 

 a purely jungle insect and never occurs anywhere even near the 

 eastern border of the forests of the Western Ghats where the rainfall 

 is probably deficient. It is plentiful on the hills near Karwar in 

 Kanara close to the sea — within a mile or so of the actual sands — and 

 is sure to occur also at Mahablesliwar and all alono- the evero-reen 

 parts of the western ghats up to Matheran. 



{To be continued.) 



