‘IgQI5.] F.H. Gravety: Indian Insects, Myriapods, etc. 503 
sometimes be found at dusk in vegetation by the road-side at 
Peradeniya, sitting curled up on the ground with the tail erected 
so as to expose her light to the best advantage. Males fly up 
with a loud buzzing sound, but without lights, and drop close to 
her. They then become faintly luminous and run round about her. 
When copulation takes place the female uncurls, and her lights 
die down till they give only a faint ventral glow. If the pair be 
separated the female lights up again at once. Males are often 
attracted to lights in houses, when they emit a steady bluish glow 
from the posterior part of the abdomen (see also Green, Trans. 
Ent. Soc. London, 1912, p. 719). 
Cleridae. 
The habits and life-history of a Clerid near Thanasimus 
migricollis, which is predaceous on Scolytidae, is described by 
Stebbing (J.4.S.B., LX XII [II], pp. 104-110).! 
Anthicidae. 
Ant-mimicry by a Formicomus is the subject of a note by 
mictcher (f.B:. N.S. XXII, p.-415). 
Meloidae. 
Blistering powers are recorded in Cantharis rouxt by Coleman 
(J.B.N.H.S., XX, pp. 1168-9). 
Green notices that Cissites debeyi lays its eggs in masses inside 
the galleries made by the Carpenter Bees with which the species 
is associated (Ent. Mo. Mag.([2], XIII, pp. 232-3).” 
Cerambicidae. 
Saunders states that adults of Batocera rubus feed on the 
round buds, but not on the leaves, of the Pipal tree (Trans. Ent. 
Soc., I, 1836, pp. 60-61). The development and habits of several 
Longicorns which bore in Ficus elastica aredescribed by Dammer- 
man (Med. Afd.v. Plantenz., No. 7, Batavia, 1913, 43 pp., 3 pl.). 
Larvae of Stromatium barbatum attack furniture in Calcutta. 
Xystocera globosa was present in large numbers in a tree which 
died recently on the Calcutta Maidan. All stages of Logaeus 
subopacus were found ina rotten log at Kavalai, ca. 2000 ft., in 
the Western Ghats in Cochin on Sept. 26, 1914. Similar larvae 
were abundant in rotten wood both there and at the base of the 
Ghats at about the same time of year, but later stages were only 
found in the one instance. 
1 Since named 7. himalayensis, Stebbing. See /ndian Forest /nsects, Lon- 
don, 1914, p. 186. 
2 See also E. Bugnion ‘‘Le Cissites testaceus, Fabr. des Indes et de Ceylan, 
Métamorphoses—A ppareil Génital’’, Bull. Soc. Ent. Egypte, 1909 (Cairo, 1910), 
pp- 182-200, pl. i-itl. 
