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in the Spanish journal Trah. Del Museo Nac. de Cienc. Nat. (Ser. 

 Zoologica, Num. 16) (1914). These three species are Phyllocoreia rama- 

 krishnai and Bennia burri from the Western Ghats, South Kanara, and 

 Mastacides nilgirisicus from the Nilgiris. 



Extremely little is known of the bionomics of these extraordinary 

 creatures. I found them in damp localities on hill-sides and on low- 

 growing brushes. Their peculiar slow and sudden movements often 

 reminded me of the chameleon. I have not seen any of these in flight, 

 but they hop about very effectively. Some of them have very good 

 protective colouration — green, brown or speckled to suit the sur- 

 roundings. I believe they are plant feeders, since I found one or two 

 species feeding on Terminalia leaves. 



Though these do not appear to be of any economic importance so 

 far noted, this is a group of insects worth studying, as almost nothing 

 is on record regarding the life-history or habits of these insects. 



I have here [exhibited] some specimens of Eumastacinse. 



Incidentally I would plead for a catalogue of our own as the figures 

 of this group in the Fauna volume are not reliable on account of their 

 being ascribed to the wrong species. 



We have very few specimens of these grasshoppers in the Pusa 

 collection. I got a few when I was in Burma and Ramachandra Rao 

 has collected a few during the course of his Lantana deputation. 



The description of these species was published in a Spanish journal. 

 It took me three years to get it translated. 



You say that almost aU the species recorded from India are from 

 the Hills of Burma, Kashmir and Southern India. I do not know 

 about Kashmir, but my Biu-mese specimens were taken at a compara- 

 tively low elevation on the railway-line between Maymyo and Lashio, 

 and I note that two of your species were taken at Taliparamba and 

 Tamarasseri, neither of which are at any height above sea-level. When 

 I was in Ceylon I remember finding one species at Trincomali also and 

 that is at sea-level. 



8.5.— SUGGESTIONS REGARDING PUBLICATION QF COMMUNI- 

 CATIONS ON ENTOMOLOGICAL SUBJECTS. 



Bij C. C. Ghosh, B.A., Assistant to the Imperial Entomologist. 

 It is intended in this paper to deal with a few points regarding the 

 existing facilities for publication of communications on entomological 



