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  PEOCEEDINGS 
  OF 
  THE 
  FOURTH 
  ENTOMOLOGICAL 
  MEETING 
  

  

  New 
  South 
  Indian 
  Saw 
  Flies. 
  (Tentliredinidae.) 
  

   Till 
  now 
  the 
  only 
  known 
  saw-fly 
  that 
  has 
  been 
  recorded 
  from 
  South 
  

   India 
  appears 
  to 
  be 
  the 
  mustard 
  saw-fly 
  {AtJialia 
  proxima, 
  Kl.). 
  This 
  

   is 
  certainly 
  not 
  due 
  to 
  the 
  absence 
  of 
  forms 
  but 
  solely 
  because 
  no 
  collec- 
  

   tions 
  were 
  made 
  and 
  worked 
  out 
  till 
  now. 
  The 
  three 
  new 
  species, 
  in- 
  

   cluding 
  one 
  new 
  genus, 
  mentioned 
  below 
  were 
  collected 
  by 
  my 
  colleagues 
  

   and 
  myself 
  chiefly 
  from 
  the 
  Hills 
  of 
  South 
  India. 
  Mr. 
  Rohwer 
  of 
  the 
  

   U. 
  S. 
  A. 
  Bmeau 
  of 
  Entomology 
  was 
  liind 
  enough 
  to 
  name 
  the 
  species 
  

   for 
  us 
  ; 
  no 
  publication 
  of 
  the 
  descriptions 
  has 
  appeared 
  as 
  far 
  as 
  I 
  know. 
  

  

  1. 
  Senoclia 
  diascorew, 
  Roh. 
  (MS) 
  ; 
  Taliparamba 
  and 
  Kollur 
  (Western 
  

  

  Ghats) 
  1,000-2,000 
  feet, 
  found 
  breeding 
  on 
  a 
  species 
  of 
  

   Diascorea 
  (July 
  to 
  October). 
  

  

  2. 
  Senoclia 
  hilamga, 
  Roh. 
  (MS) 
  ; 
  from 
  the 
  Nilgiiis 
  and 
  Kollegal 
  

   (September-October) 
  from 
  1,000-2,000 
  feet 
  elevation. 
  

  

  3. 
  AmonopJiadniis 
  subtnetallicus, 
  Roh. 
  (MS), 
  from 
  the 
  Palni 
  Hills, 
  

   5,000 
  feet 
  (May). 
  

  

  All 
  these 
  are 
  species 
  with 
  a 
  uniform 
  bluish-black 
  colour 
  without 
  

   any 
  yellow 
  or 
  reddish 
  markings. 
  

  

  Poecilogonalos 
  spp. 
  from 
  South 
  India. 
  (Trigonalidse.) 
  

  

  In 
  a 
  consignment 
  of 
  bees 
  which 
  I 
  forwarded 
  to 
  Professor 
  Cockerel! 
  

   a 
  couple 
  of 
  years 
  ago 
  was 
  included 
  a 
  specimen 
  which 
  I 
  took 
  to 
  be 
  a 
  

   bee 
  {Noniada). 
  Professor 
  Cockerell 
  wrote 
  back 
  to 
  me 
  saying 
  that 
  the 
  

   insect 
  was 
  a 
  Trigonalid. 
  He 
  did 
  not 
  send 
  me 
  back 
  the 
  specimen 
  nor' 
  

   did 
  he 
  publish 
  anything 
  regarding 
  the 
  same 
  among 
  our 
  novelties 
  among 
  

   bees 
  which 
  he 
  published 
  in 
  the 
  Annals 
  and 
  Magazine 
  of 
  Natural 
  History 
  

   during 
  1919. 
  Meanwhile 
  I 
  looked 
  for 
  more 
  of 
  these 
  insects 
  in 
  our 
  collec- 
  

   tion 
  and 
  succeeded 
  in 
  finding 
  another 
  Trigonalid. 
  I 
  had 
  thus 
  two 
  speci- 
  

   mens, 
  one 
  being 
  the 
  duplicate 
  of 
  the 
  insect 
  I 
  sent 
  to 
  Professor 
  Cockerell, 
  

   and 
  another 
  one, 
  both 
  apparently 
  different 
  species. 
  Finding 
  these 
  

   very 
  interesting 
  I 
  referred 
  to 
  literature 
  and 
  found 
  that 
  from 
  India, 
  so 
  

   far 
  as 
  I 
  was 
  able 
  to 
  make 
  out, 
  only 
  one 
  species 
  had 
  been 
  described 
  and 
  

   that 
  was 
  Poecilogonalos 
  liarmandi. 
  Under 
  the 
  circumstances 
  I 
  made 
  

   bold 
  to 
  describe 
  these 
  two 
  insects 
  as 
  tw^o 
  new 
  species 
  and 
  these 
  descrip- 
  

   tions 
  were 
  published 
  in 
  the 
  Records 
  of 
  the 
  Indian 
  Museum, 
  XVI, 
  pp.71-74 
  

   (1919) 
  under 
  the 
  following 
  names 
  : 
  — 
  

  

  1. 
  Poecilogonalos 
  fulvoscutellata, 
  from 
  the 
  Palni 
  Hills 
  (May). 
  

  

  2, 
  P. 
  Tcerala, 
  from 
  Malabar 
  (October). 
  

  

  I 
  now 
  find 
  that 
  Professor 
  Cockerell 
  has 
  very 
  recently 
  published 
  

   a 
  description 
  of 
  the 
  insect 
  I 
  sent 
  him, 
  in 
  the 
  Proceedings 
  of 
  the 
  Ento- 
  

  

  