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Fulgora candelaria does not seem to be a very common species as a Mr. Fletcher, 

 ride. I have not come across it myself in India although I found it in 

 Hongkong twenty years ago. Did you observe any sjiecial function of „ . • ^ 

 the cephalic prolongation '. Ayyar. 



No. 



Fulgorids are known to transmit fungal or bacterial diseases to jihinls. Mr. Beeson. 

 Work is being done in the sandalwood areas on tlie sjiike disease of 

 sandal in this coimection. 



Another point of interest about these Fulgorid bugs is their supposed Mr. Fletcher, 

 Iiuninosity. Fulgora candelaria was so called because it was supposed 

 to be luminous. I think it was Madame Merian in Siu'inam about two 

 hundred years ago who recorded that some of these bugs were found 

 to be luminous when the box containing them was opened in the dark, 

 but since then no authentic corroboration of this statement seems to 

 have been obtained. I made inquiries at Hongkong but was unable 

 to obtain any confirmation of this supposed luminosity. The luminosity, 

 if it does really occm-, may be the result of Ijacterial disease and not 

 to the action of photogenic organs. 



84.— EUMASTACIN.E FROM S(JUTM INDIA. 



B>/ T. V. RAMAKRI.SHNA Ayyar, B.A., F.E.S., F.Z.S.. AditKj GovemmeM 

 Enlomologifit Madras. 



{I'late 17.J.) 



In exhibiting herewith some sjjccimens of these curious insects 

 collected from South India I would add a few remarks. 



The group Euniastacina' is, as most of you know, a sub-famil}' of 

 the well-known Ortho25terous family Acridiidse. The insects included 

 in this sub-family are all very curious and abnormal in structure as 

 compared with other grasshoppers {.wc figure). 



The striking features of these insects are the extreme shortness of 

 the antennae, the curious posture and structure of the wings (some are 

 apterous) and the peculiar leafiike projected formation of the prothorax 

 in some forms. Almost all of them are comparatively small in size, 

 ranging from half an inch to not more than a couple of inches in length. 

 .Almost all the Indian species recorded are from tlie Hills of Burma, 

 Kashmir and South India. 



Mr. Kirby in his Fauna Volume on Acrid iidcc has described all the 

 forms known up to 1914. Since then Candido Bolivar has described 

 three new South Indian forms, from some material we sent from Madras, 



