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PROCEEDINGS OF THE THIRD ENTOMOLOGICAL MEETING 



in the Spanish journal Trab. Del Museo Nac. de Cienc. Nat. (Ser. 

 Zoologica, Num. 16) (1914). These three species are PhyVocoreia rama- 

 krishnai and Bennia burri from the Western Ghats. South Kanara, and 

 Mastacides nilgirisicus from the Niigiris. 



Extremeiy little is known of the bionomics of these extraordinary 

 creatures. I found them in damp localities on hill-sides and on low- 

 growing brushes. Their peculiar slow and sudden movements often 

 reminded me of the chameleon. I have not seen any of these in flight, 

 but they hop about very effectively. Some of them have very good 

 protective colouration — green, brown or speckled to suit the sur- 

 roundings. I believe they are plant feeders, since I found one or two 

 species feeding on Terminalia leaves. 



Though these do not appear to be of any economic importance so 

 far noted, this is a group of insects worth studying, as almost nothing 

 is on record regarding the life-historv or habits of these insects. 



Mr. Ramakrishna 

 Ayyar. 



Mr. F/etcher, 



Mr. Ramakrishna 



Ayyar. 



Mr. Fletcher. 



I have here [exhibifed] some specunens of Eumastacinse. 



Incidentally I would plead for a catalogue of our own as the figures 

 of this group in the Fauna volume are not reliable on account of their 

 being ascribed to the wi'ong species 



We have very few specimens of these grasshoppers in the Pusa 

 collection. I got a few when I was in Burma and Ramachandra Rao 

 has collected a few during the com-se of his Lantana deputation. 



The description of these species was published in a Si^anish journal. 

 It took me three years to get it translated. . 



You say that almost all the species recorded from India are from 

 the Hills of Burma, Kashmir and Southern India. I do not know 

 about Kashmir-, but my Burmese specimens were taken at a compara- 

 tively low elevation on the railway-line between Maymyo and Lashio, 

 and I note that two of your species were taken at Taliparamba and 

 Tamarasseri, neither of which are at any height above sea-level. When 

 I was in Ceylon I remember finding one sj^ecies at Trincomali alsa and 

 that is at sea-level. 



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-SUGGESTIONS REGARDING PUBLICATION OF COMMUNI- 

 CATIONS ON ENTOMOLOGICAL SUBJECTS. 



By C. C. GiioSH, B.A., Assislavl. to (he Iinperird Eiiloinologist. 

 It is intended in this paper to deal with a few points regarding the 

 existing facilities for publication of communications on entomological 



