502 Records of the Indian Museum. [VoL. XI, 
note by Gravely (Rec. Ind. Mus., VII, pp. 207-9). In both places 
the habits of the littoral Cicindela birvamosa are mentioned, An 
earlier communication with regard to this species was made by 
Fletcher (Spolia Zeylanica, V, pp. 62-3), who has recently pub- 
lished a note on tiger-beetles from Coorg (J.B.N.H.S., XXIII, 
. 379). 
4 eae breeding places of common Indian Cicindelidae have been 
discussed by Lefroy (/.B.N.H.S., XIX, pp. 1008-9). and the life- 
history and habits of Collyris emarginata in the Sunda Islands by 
Koningsberger (Med. ‘Slands Plant,, XLIV, p. 113, fig. 59) and 
Shelford (J. Straits R. A. S., June 1906, pp. 283-4). 
Carabidae. 
Calosoma orientale is recorded as an enemy of locusts by 
Cotes (J .6.N.H.S., Viz pi 476): 
Paussidae. 
Some Indian representatives of this family form the subject of 
a paper by Boyes, in which some account of their habits is given 
(J ASB... XL, pp. 42737. 35pie); 
Malacodermidae. 
The flashing in unison of swarms of fire-flies is discussed by 
Cameron, Clark, Fry and others (Proc. Ent. Soc. London, 1865, 
pp. 94-5 and Io1-2, the former reprinted in J/.A.S.B., XXXIV [II], 
pp. 190-2); Theobald (J.A.S.B., XXXV [II], pp. 73-4; reprinted 
Proc. Ent. Soc. London, 1866, pp. xxvii-xxviii); Fedden (Proc. 
A.S.B., 1866, p. 19); Severn (Nature, XXIV, p. 165); Annandale 
(Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1900, pp. 864-5); and Cunningham 
(‘‘ Plagues and Pleasures’’, pp. 129-130). I have only once seen 
an example of this phenomenon. I was walking after sunset near 
Dhammathat on the Gyaing River above Moulmein when I 
noticed that all the fire-flies of the neighbourhood seemed to have 
congregated round an isolated tree, and were flashing in unison 
with wonderful effect. 
Aquatic fire-fly larvae are described by Annandale (Proc. 
Zool. Soc. London, 1900, pp. 862-4, and J.A.S.B. [n.s.], II, 
pp. 106-7). 
Green notices the luminosity of Harmatelia bilinea and Dtop- 
toma adamst (Trans. Ent. Soc. London, 1912, pp. 717-719, and 
Spolia Zeylanica, VII, pp. 212-4, I pl.). 
A glowworm with nine pairs of lights has been recorded from 
Ceylon by ‘‘M’’ (see Proc. Ent. Soc. London, 1865, p. 10f).! 
The large yellow-edged black larvae of Lamprophorus tenebro- 
sus are luminous, but do not shine as brilliantly as do the mature 
females, which are uniformly yellowish in colour. The female may 
1 See also Rutherford, Spolia Zeylanica, X, pp. 72-74 (Dioptoma adamsz). 
