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Europe it would be the larch) ; here they lay eggs from which arise the 

 wingless parthenogenetic females which either lay eggs upon the stems 

 and brauches of the new or secondary plant in the autumn or hibernate 

 on it through the winter and lay eggs in April. These eggs are invari- 

 ably laid within white cottony masses which render their presence upon 

 the trees easily perceivable. These eggs hatch out in the beginning of 

 May, and the young, crimson-coloured larvae crawl up on to the newly-de- 

 voloped spring needles of the tree and suck out their juices. Part of these 

 become nymphs and go on to the winged condition, and then about the 

 middle of July fly back to the Spruce, whilst the rest remain wingless and 

 lay eggs that give rise to yet another wingless generation ; in fact, it may 

 be said that a second pair of parallel series is formed upon the Silver fir, 

 of which one is wingless and exclusively parthenogentic and continues 

 to live for an indefinite period upon the tree, whilst the other becomes 

 winged and returns to the Spruce. I have not as yet traced the further 

 life-history of these winged individuals beyond ascertaining the fact that 

 they really do return to that tree. It is probable, however, that they at 

 once lay eggs, which give rise to a sexual generation. These latter lay 

 upon the Spruce the eg^ which gives rise to the wingless parthenogene- 

 tic 9 which starts the life-cycle by laying the eggs from which hatch out 

 the young larvae whose action produces the galls or pseudo-cones. 



It is considered probable that it will be held that the discovery and 

 working out of the life-histories of this insect and that of the Thanasimus 

 sp. (the Clerid predaceous upon bark-beetles) whose habits were discuss- 

 ed in a paper read at the last Meeting, are amongst the most important, 

 as they are scientifically as well as economically amongst the most inter- 

 esting of the entomological investigations made in this country. 



4. Notes on the Hindus in the Nuskhi Tahsil of the Chagai Agency in 

 Baluchistan. — By EL. Rai Sahib Diwan Jamiat Rai, Special Assistant to the 

 Superintendent, Imperial Gazetteer^ Baluchistan. Communicated by the 

 Anthropological Secretary. 



(Abstract.) 



These notes are the outcome of enquiries made from some of the 

 principal Hindu shop-keepers of Nuskhi. There are in all about thirty 

 families, old inhabitants, some of whom have been in the Tahsil for five 

 generations. They are all Arora Hindus, and the majority of them 

 came from Kachi and Shikarpur. They all know Brahui, and most of 

 the men speak Baluchi also, but in their homes they speak the Jatki 

 dialect. There are also about twenty families in Shorawak, in Afghan 

 territory. They have not very clear ideas about their religion. The 



