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forwarded to Mr. Buckland by Mr. Larymore of the Central Jail 

 at Midnapur. Mr. Larymore had procured them from the neigh- 

 bouring country district, where Santal women and children had 

 hunted them out and brought them in, hanging on branches or 

 twigs of a bush, somewhat like a wild plum-tree. They are also 

 said to be found upon rose-bushes, and in connexion with this it 



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lus gongyloides, female. 



was observed that, in Midnapur, they were known as rose-leaf 

 Insects, from the circumstance that when the Insect is more 

 developed and furnished with wings, the foliaceous appendages 

 are said greatly to increase in size, and exactly to resemble rose- 

 leaves. Dr. Anderson, however, was disposed to think that more 

 than one species might probably occur in the Midnapur district, 

 and that these Insects with the larger foliaceous expansions might 

 be distinct from the species now before the Society. 



