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great flights. The large black Anthia se.vguttata, with six large 

 cream yellow spots on the elytra shown in Fig. 128, is common 

 throughout India. I found it feeding upon the caterpillars of the 

 hawk moth Psendosphinx discistriga in Berar in July 1901. These 

 larvae were defoliating teak trees in the Melghat forest. Fig. 131 

 shows Pheroysophus marginalis, inhabiting the neighbourhood of 

 Calcutta, which has the elytra widened apically, the head and 

 thorax with yellow blotches on them and each elytra with two 

 yellow patches on them, the largest behind. A closely allied 

 species with a red head and thorax and dark blue-black elytra 

 with 3 yellow blotches on each, the basal small, median ones 

 large and rounded and apical ones transverse, is common in 

 the N. W. Himalayas and in the Terai region at the foot of 

 the mountains. 



Catascopus whithilli, shown in Fig. 132, is a Carabid beetle fairly 



common in Sikkim. 



I have also taken it in 



Assam. The head and 



thorax are shining 



green, the latter hav- 

 ing a V-shaped depres- 

 sion situated centrally ; 



the elytra are purple 



black and channelled. 



Fig. 133 depicts a 



common black ground 



beetle of Bengal named 



Trigonotoma viridi- 



collis. This insect has a 



metallic green thorax. 

 The most curious insects of the group are, however, the 3 known 

 species of the genus Mormolyce which as Fig. 134 shows have some 

 resemblance to the remarkable leaf-insect (PhyUium set/the) shown 

 in Fig. 14 of these papers. The Mormolyce have an extraordinary 

 shape for Carabtdce ; the sides of the elytra form large crinkled ex- 

 pansions and the head is unusually elongate. These insects live 



Fla. 132.— Catascopus 

 whithilli (Sikkim and 

 Assam). 



Fig. 133.— Common 

 black ground beetle 

 {Trigonotoma viridi- 

 oollis) (Maldab.) 



