MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 1005 



ifi always traceable to violence of some sort or other ; for I have never 

 oome across any dead wild animals beyond the one mentioned in my first 

 letter (and even that one may have been killed by a snake) that has not been 

 killed by a tiger or met with a violent death of some sort or other. One does 

 read of animals retiring to some secluded spot to die in, but what secluded 

 spots are there that antelope (the animals that swarm in such numbers on the 

 hot plains of India) can retire to ? My question " Has any one ever come 

 across vultures feeding on a dead wild animal ?" of course, alludes to animals 

 that have died a natural death. 



W. G. BETHAM, i.f.s. 



FramptoN-on-Severn, Glodcestershire, 

 ^ih August, 1909. 



No. XXXI.— ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES, 

 (a) — The International Congress. 



An International Congress of Entomology is to be held in 1910 at Brussels, 

 a little time before the International Congress of Zoology to be held at Graz, 

 This Congress will be the first for Entomology as a separate subject, and 

 resolutions made by the Congress will then be put before the Zoological 

 Congress. 



An Indian Sub-committee has been formed of which the Honorary 

 Secretary of this Society is a member ; printed information will be sent out to 

 all who are interested; the Sub-committee are especially anxious to find a 

 delegate to represent India at the Congress , and hope to hear of some 

 member of the Society who is keen on Entomology and who will be in Europe 

 at that time and willing to attend the Congress, which meets from August 1st to 

 6th. The Subcommittee also wishes to obtain papers to be read at the Congress 

 and will be very glad to hear from members who will submit papers on any 

 branch of Entomology. The Congress is meant to discusss all aspects of 

 entomology, the applied as well as the technical, and it is hoped that such 

 important questions as insects and disease, insects in relation to man and 

 agiiculture will be a feature of the Congress. Papers may be sent to the 

 Honorary Secretary, or to the Chairman of the Indian Sub-committee, the 

 Imperial Entomologist at Pusa. 



{b) — The Indian Nemopterid and its Food. 



In " Indian Insect Life" (p. KJO) some notes were given upon the egg and larva 

 of the common hemopterid {Croce fVpennis WeaUl) ; since that time, these 

 larvae have continued to flourish in captivity, and it has been found that their 

 food is the egg and immature stages of the common fish insect {Acrolelsa 

 eollaris, Fabr.) which is so abundant in houses ; to feed the former, the fish 

 insect is being bred also. The larva of Croce has not as yet developed the long 

 neck, characteristic of the larva figured in text-books : its development is 



