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species in India which couple before completing the matamorphosis and 

 passing through the last moult. The other species associated with this be- 

 lief is the Rice Grasshopper [Hieroglyphus banian, Fabr.) which has short- 

 winged mature forms, which look like nymphs but are really mature ; these of 

 coarse couple and lay eggs while appearing to be nymphs. 



(/.)— New Rhynchota. 

 Large numbers of new Rhynchota are still being described by 

 Mr. Distant, the last series being in the Annales de la Societe' de Belgique, 

 where thirty species are added to the Indian fauna. The most interesting 

 are the three species of Salda and two of Aradus ; these obscure families are 

 little collected or known in India, and there are probably many species to be 

 found in the moist hill tracts of India. S<ilda pmana Dist, described from 

 specimens that were mutilated by the Post Office in transit to England, was 

 found at Lebong on the boulders in the river over which the water pours 

 producing a thick growth on the sheltered underside of green moss, in which 

 lives a very peculiar fauna. The collector in the hills will find extremely 

 interesting material in such localities. The appendix volume of the Rhynchota 

 in which all the new species will be described, wUl be awaited with interest, and 

 it is to be hoped that all who have collections of Rhynchota will have them 

 examined, and the new species sent to Mr, Distant for inclusion in this 

 volume. 



{g). — Where Cicindela Breeds. 

 Cicindelid beetles are common insects of the plains, occurring abundantly 

 in crops, waste lands, and especially on flooded lands at the close of the rains. 

 While larvse which corresponded with C'ldude'a larvae, in Europe have been 

 found in wet sand near rivers, they have been so rarely found that they 

 could not represent the common species -p hich occur in abundance. Recently 

 such larvae have been found in greater abundance and under circumstances 

 that point to their being the common species so abundant in the plains. The 

 larvas were found in land which had been slightly waterlogged and so was 

 well compacted and solid after the rains closed; each larva lives in a vertical 

 tunnel, as is well-known, the tunnel ending at the surface in a round hole ; when 

 one looks at the soil in which such larvae are living, one sees a small hole ; 

 watching it and then looking away at others, the original hole disappears and 

 cannot be seen ; Cicindela larva has come up, and its flat darx head has filled 

 up the top level with the soil ; if one moves, down goes the Cicindela, and the 

 hole is at once obvious. Such holes are common in wet lands in October, and the 

 tunnels extend down about five inches into the soil ; the Cicindtla larva grips 

 anything that runs over by its recurved mandibles, which project over the 

 head; it then goes down with the victim, feeds on it, and placing the empty 

 skin on the flat head ascends to the surface and jerks the remains away 

 clear of the opening of the tunnel. 



