igi5.] F.H. Gravety: Indian Insects, Myriapods, etc. 509 
Asilidae. 
Notes on the food of Asilidae are contributed by Bell 
Gb Hess = XVII =p, S07) and Annandale (Mem. A.S.B., I, 
p. 213) Notes on their oviposition are contributed by Kershaw 
WisBeN 12157, el ppsO10-3. pl. A-B) and Sen (JB. N.H.S:, XXI, 
pp. 695-7, 1 fig.). 
Phoridae, 
A piochaeta ferruginea, a fly capable of reproducing and de- 
veloping in the alimentary canal of living human beings, is the 
subject of two papers by Brunetti (/ec. Ind. Mus., VII, pp. 83-86 
and 515-6). 
Muscidae (s. /az.). 
Limosina equitans, Collins (Ent. Mo. Mag., 1910, pp. 275-279), 
was described from specimens found by Fletcher on a living 
Coprid beetle. See also Green (Solita Zeylanica, 1V, p. 183, and 
RPE. 107),./ 
Howlett describes the attraction of citronella oil for male 
specimens of two species of Dacus (Trans. Ent. Soc. London, 1912, 
pp. 412-418, p). xxxix-xl). 
A species of Anthomyia! is recorded by Cotes as parasitic 
on the eggs of locusts (Proc. A.S.B., June 3, 1891, p. 94; and 
Jeb NA S2 VA ps 4x6), 
Attacks of numbers of Ochromyia jejuna on a swarm of winged 
termites are noticed by Nangle (J.B.N.H.S., XVI, p. 747),’ Green 
(Spolia Zeylanica, III, p. 220 and IV, pp. 183-4) and Poulton 
(LT. Ent. Soc. London, 1906, pp. 394-6). The observation that this 
fly has been seen taking away grains of sugar from large ants 
suggests that it may have been this insect which I several times 
saw taking the food of big ants in Cochin. On one occasion I saw 
a specimen flying about with a piece of food attached to its 
proboscis and a big ant attached to the other side of the piece of 
food. 
Interesting observations on the feeding habits of certain 
blood-sucking Muscidae are recorded by Patton and Cragg (Ind, 
Journ. Med. Res., 1, pp. 11-25). 
HEMIPTERA. 
Pentatomidae, 
The reaction of a Loris to Aspongopus singhalanus suggest 
that the taste of this bug, though at first startlingly pungent, is 
distinctly agreeable. The odour of the bug, though also pungent, 
! Anthomyia peshawarensis (Bigot nom. nud.), Cotes, /nd. Mus. Notes, 11, 
pp. 34-5—notes and figures but no description. 
* Concerning the identity of the fly mentioned in this note see Spolia Zeyla- 
nica, IV, p. 184. 
