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NOTES. 



1. Tipulidce from Ceylon. — In the "Annals and Magazine of 

 Natural History " for July,* Mr, F. W. Edwards has a small paper on 

 the above group. The insects described in this paper belong to the 

 three following collections : — 



(1) Mr. E. E. Green's collection made between 1888 and 1897. 



(2) Lieut.-Col. J. W. Yerbury's collection made in 1890-92. 



(3) Mr. T. Bainbrigge Fletcher's collection made in 1907-8. , 

 Sixteen species are described, of which eight are new : — 



Thrypticomyia saltens, Dol. Madulsima. 



Thrypticomyia longivena, sp. n. Dondra. 



Geranomyia fletcheri, sp. n. Madulsima. 



Libnotes poeciloptera, O.-S. Pundalu-oya. 



Teucholahis cyanea, sp. n. Madulsima, Bentota. 



Styringomyia ceylonica, sp. n. Weligama. 



Trentepohlia trentepohlii, Wied. Galle, Weligama, Tamblegam. 



Trentepoklia pennipes, O.-S. Trincomalee, Pundalu-oya. 



Conosia irrorata, Wied. Dondra, Galle, Bentota. 



Eriocera crystalloptera, O.-S. Madulsima, Pundalu-oya, Haputale. 



Eriocera humberti, O.-S. Pundalu-oya. 



Eriocera ctenophoroides , sp. n. Kandy, Kottawa, Pelmadulla. 



Eriocera alhonotata, Lw. Kandy, Passara, Pelmadulla, Trmco- 



malee, Pundalu-oya, Diyatalawa. 

 Eriocera scutellata, sp. n. Pundalu-oya. 

 Eriocera tuber culif era, sp. n. Pundalu-oya. 

 Eriocera fusca, sp. n. Pundalu-oya. 



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2. Note on the Arboreal Habits of the Kabaragoya (" Varanus 

 salvator ") and the Talagoya (" V. bengalensis'^ ). — In Spolia Zeylanica, 

 Vol. VI., Part XXI., March, 1909, p. 49, Dr. Willey has a note 

 to the effect that " old talagoyas (F. bengalensis) and young kabara- 

 goyas ( V. salvator) ascend trees only under exceptional cu-cumstances.'* 

 In the Notes of Vol. VI., Part XXIIL, December, 1909, p. 131, 

 Mr. E. E. Green records a case where a fairly large specimen of F. 

 salvator was seen to run up a jak tree, and was captured at a height of 

 20 feet from the ground. This might also appear to be a case of 

 exceptional circumstances. But a visit to Bentota lagoon by two 

 friends and myself on July 2, 1911, appears to show that the full- 

 grown kabaragoya is in the habit of basking on the branches of trees 



* F. W. Edwards : •• On some Tipulidce {Limoniince) from Ceylon in the 

 British Museum Collection, with Descriptions of Eight New Species," — ^Ann. 

 Mag. Nat. Hist, (8)^ Vol, VIII., No, 43, July, 1911, pp. 58-67 



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