42 Records of-the Indian Museum. [ MOT, pVsEe 
ACALYPTERATA, subfamily SEPSINAE. 
6. Sepsis cyntpsea (Linn.). 
A pair were taken on Parésnath in April at an altitude of 
4,350 feet. This common Palaearctic species occurs all along 
the Himalayas and is also found in the hills of Assam, but does 
not occur in the plains except just at the base of the Himalayas. 
Numerous other Diptera were taken but have not yet been 
identified. 
COLEOPTERA. 
Although a considerable collection of beetles was made on 
Parésnath, it has been only possible to get a few species identified 
as yet. The most striking form was Thysta wallichii, Hope, a 
large Longicorn rendered conspicuous by its barred elytra and 
tufted antennae. This species was common at an altitude of 
4,400 feet on the hill and was often observed on the wing. It is 
equally abundant at about the same altitude in the E. Himalayas, 
and its range extends eastwards through Assam and Upper Burma 
into China. Other conspicuous forms were the Cetoniinae Clin- 
testa klugit (Hope) and C. hearsiana, Westw., which were found 
together in very large numbers, devouring the flowers of certain 
shrubs that grew near the top of the hill. C. klugii appears to be 
restricted to western and central India, while C. hearsiana has not 
been recorded from any other definite locality but Parésnath. 
RHYNCHOTA. 
The commoner and more conspicuous species of the Het- 
eroptera from our Parésnath collection have been identified by 
Mr. C. Paiva, while Mr. W. IL. Distant has recently described a 
number of new species. Only the larger Homoptera have yet 
been named, with the exception of one or two common Jassidae, 
but a large number of species will, I hope, be dealt with in the 
appendix to Mr. Distant’s account of the Rhynchota in the 
Fauna of British India. Of those that have been identified the 
most interesting from a geographical point of view are two species 
of Cicada, both diurnal in habit and each common on the occasion 
of one visit, viz., Haphsa nicomache (Walk.), which was abundant 
in April, and a new species of Terpnosia,! which replaced it in 
May. ‘The range of H. nicomache, so far as it is known, extends 
(apart from Parésnath) from Mussoorie in the W. Himalayas 
through Sikhim into Assam. 
The Heteroptera of Parésnath appear to fall for the most 
part into one of two categories—either they are common and 
widely distributed species or else they have not yet been found 
except on the hill. This, however, is the case as regards most 
newly explored localities in India, and it would appear to be a 
fact that species of this suborder are as a rule either very widely 
distributed or else quite local in their distribution. The number 
1 T. genkinst, Dist., Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 1912. 
