1915.] F. H. Gravety: Indian Insects, Myriapods, etc. 495 
Formicidae. 
The habits of a number of different species are referred to by 
Rothney (Tvans. Ent. Soc. London, 1889, pp. 347-374; reprinted 
J.B.N.H S., V, pp. 38-64), Wroughton, (/.B.N.H.S., VII, pp. 13-60 
and 175-202, pl. A-D), and Cunningham (“‘ Plagues and Pleasures’’ , 
Pp. 40-54). 
The care of Lycaenid larvae by ants is described by de 
Niceville (/.B.N.H.S., III, pp. 164-8, pl. 26-7). 
Bingham contributes a note on the habits of Diacamma 
G/B N.S. XII, pp. 756-7). 
Green describes the web-spinning of Oecophylla smaragdina 
(Proc. Ent. Soc. London, 1896, p. ix and J/.B.N.H.S., XIII, p. 181). 
Some earlier papers on this subject, and the fact that Oecophylla 
smaragdina does not spin a cocoon in which to pupate, are noticed 
by Green (Spolia Zeylanica, I, pp. 73-4), and the matter forms the 
subject of notes by Fletcher (Sfolia Zeylanica, V, p. 64), Ridley 
(J. Straits R. Astatic Soc. No. 22, Dec. 1890, pp. 345-7) and Shelford 
(J. Straits R. Astatic Soc. June 1906, pp. 284-5). 
A living chain of Oecophylla smaragdina spanning a gap of 3 
inches is described by Green (Spolia Zeylanica, VII, pp. 53-4). The 
capture of a living butterfly (Catopsilia crocale) by this species is 
recorded by Henry (Sfolia Zeylanica, IX, pp. 142-3). A lengthy 
note on the habits of the same species in the Malay Peninsula will 
be found in Fascicult Malayenses, Zool. III, pp. 27-30. 
A remarkable illustration of the very large quantities of 
grain carried away and stored by ants is given by Fraser 
Wiebe NeS.. XX, pr 877), 
The carrying away of a partially disabled caterpillar by a 
party of ants is described by Sladen (J.B.N.H.S., XXII, p. 649). 
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Passalidae. 
I have already once gathered together as much information 
as I could obtain about the habits of Indian Passalidae (see Mem. 
Ind. Mus., III, pp. 339-340). Since then Mr. T. Bainbrigge Fletcher 
has taken Episphenus neelgherriensis at light in Coorg, and has 
obtained eggs of Macrolinus votundifrons from under a log at 
Peradeniya where they were found ‘‘in a circular chamber partly 
filled with gnawed wood.’’ In view of the suggestion made in 
the ‘‘ Fauna of British India” (l,amellicornia, I, p. 20) that the 
Passalidae are a viviparous family the latter observation is ol 
great interest. It may not be out of place to note here that 
when, during my visit to Berlin in 1913, I called the attention 
of Dr. Ohaus to the suggestion, he immediately refuted it by the 
production of eggs of American species preserved in his fine 
private collection. 
! Concerning stridulation in this Order, with which several of the following 
notes are concerned, see Gahan, Trans. Ent. Soc. London, 1900, pp. 433-452, 
pl. vii; and Arrow, Trans. Ent. Soc., London, 1904, pp. 709-750, pl. Xxxvi. 
