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MYRIAPODA and ARACHNIDA. 
Family SCOLOPENDRIDAE. 
Cormocephalus dentipes, Poc. 
A specimen of this scarce species, which is only known from 
Bengal,! was taken at an altitude of about 4,300 feet under a 
stone. The only other specimen in our collection is from 
Calcutta. 
Family GALEODIDAE. 
Galeodes orientalis, Stoliczka. 
Pocock, Fauna Brit. Ind.—Arachnida, p. 138, fig. 48. 
A single specimen was taken under a stone at an altitude of 
between 4,000 and 4,500 feet. This species is perhaps the most 
widely distributed of the North Indian Solifugae. It was 
originally described from Central Bengal and Delhi and specimens 
in the collection of the Indian Museum prove that its range 
extends all over the drier parts of northern India from Cutch 
to the W. Himalayas and to Assam. A subspecies (vufulus, Poc.), 
distinguished chiefly by its darker coloration, occurs in Bombay. 
G. orientalis is common in a house situated near Giridih some miles 
from the base of Parésnath. 
Several spiders and millipedes were also collected but have 
not yet been identified. 
INSECTS. 
ORTHOPTERA. 
Small Acridiids, mantises and cockroaches are common on 
Parésnath, but the only Orthopteron identified with certainty is 
the large and powerful grasshopper Mecopoda elongata (inne); a 
species found throughout the Oriental region and also in Japan and 
Australia. In India it is common among brushwood on hillsides 
whereon the jungle is dense. The elytra of the two forms, a green 
form and brown one, closely resemble leaves in different stages of 
decay. Both were found in April on Parésnath. 
HYMENOPTERA. 
Only the Aculeate specimens in the collection have as yet 
been examined. Of these Mr. C. A. Paiva has identified those 
that represent species described in the late Col. Bingham’s 
volumes in the ‘‘ Fauna,’’ but there are also a considerable 
number which represent forms not described in these volumes and 
probably new to science. ‘The following have been identified :— 
1 Gravely, Rec. Ind. Mus., V, Pp. 171. 
