igoy.] 



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from the plains. Those recorded by Mr. Gahan are from Nepal, 

 Bhutan and Sikkim. Similarly Lophosternus falco, Thoms., which 

 I obtained in the Purneah District in May 1906, has been recorded 

 only from Darjiling. 



A single specimen of Prionus elliotti, Gahan, was obtained by 

 Mr. E. Vredenburg of the Geological Survey of India in the Nushki 

 District, Baluchistan, in May. The specimen recorded by Mr. 

 Gahan is from Baluchistan, near Quetta (C. Elliott). 



Three specimens of Molesthes holoscricea, Fabr., were obtained 

 by the Museum Collector in Calcutta in January 1907. Mr. Gahan 

 records the species from North-West India, Bombay, the Nilgiris, 

 Ceylon, Assam, Tenasserim, the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, 

 Siam, and the Malay Peninsula. It apparently is a very widely 

 distributed species. 



Molesthes sarta, Solsky, has hitherto been recorded from 

 Quetta {E. P. Stebbing), Turkestan and Western Tibet. The Indian 

 Museum possesses one specimen collected by Mr. E. Vredenburg 

 in the Nushki District, Baluchistan. In the Annual Report of the 

 Board of Scientific Advice for India for the year 1905-06, p. 108, 

 there is a short account, by Mr. E. P. Stebbing, of the damage 

 done by the larvae of this beetle to the trees forming the avenues in 

 Quetta, where it is doubtless exceedingly common. Mr. Stebbing 

 gives an interesting life-history of this beetle in his pamphlet en- 

 titled the ''Quetta Borer." He also records it from Chagai, Chaman 

 and Seistan. 



One specimen of Rosalia lateritia, Hope, was presented to the 

 Indian Museum by Mr. L. L. Fermor of the Geological Survey, who 

 obtained it in Kumaon in October, 1906. There was only one 

 other specimen in the Museum Collection, from Kulu. Mr. Gahan 

 records it from the Himalayas, Travancore, Burma, Indo-China. 



Another Cerambycid Beetle, Nothopeus hemiptera, Oliv., is 

 worthy of note, not only on account of its distribution, but also on 



Nothopeus hemiptera and Salius madraspatanus. 



account of its close resemblance to certain other insects. It 

 resembles the common Pompilid Hymenopteron Salius madras- 



