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head — at the junction of head and neck — and tired, whereupon the unfortu- 

 nate animal just rolled over into the water, without a struggle, stone dead. 

 She was a fine beast, not very large, but in the pink of condition, and had been 

 the murderer, I fear, of many wild cattle calves. The spot selected by this 

 beast for her larder was most ingeniously thought out, as it was sufficiently 

 high to prevent any animals, such, as jackals, hyaenas, etc., from touching 

 it, and was most carefully concealed below the thick foliage of the tree, so 

 that vultures or other carrion birds should not detect or tamper with it in 

 any way during her absence. The temperature, moreover, at that point was, 

 I fancy, the lowest to be found in the neighbourhood, as, owing to the 

 transpiration of moisture from the leaves and exposure at such a height to the 

 hot wind then prevailing, a uniform and cool temperature was kept up by 

 evaporation, which helped to preserve her meal from too early decomposition 

 possibly, as even a panther, I fancy, has sufficiently good taste to prefer, when 

 possible, fresh rather than decomposed matter for its meals. I fancy many 

 such instances of sagacity in wild animals could be obtained, if sportsmen laid 

 themselves out to observe life in jungles, as I have, when opportunity 

 afforded. In order to do so effectually, an extremely interesting and enter- 

 taining method of seeing such sights is to erect a machan at a carefuJt-y 

 selected and much-haunted drinking spot. I am, however, far from advoca- 

 ting such means as sportsmanlike in the pursuit of game, for methods of 

 shooting animals over water are truly oriental in their origin, and, as such, 

 should never be resorted to by us, but for the observance of interesting 

 phenomena in connection with animal life in jungles they are unequalled. 

 H. E. DRAKE-BROCKMAN, F.Z.S., Major, I.M.S. 

 Bangalore, January, 1907. 



No. XVII— ON A NEW SPECIES OF FULGORID FROM 

 DARJEELING-. 



Order — Rhynchota. Sub-order — Homoptera. Purohita arundinacea, Dist. 



I have to record the occurrence in Darjeeling of a new species of 



Fulgorid of the genus Purohita (sub-family Delphacince), specimens of which 



were sent me by Dr. Harold H. Mann in September 1906, collected from 



Bamboos at an elevation of 3,100 feet, and which, through the kindness of 



Mr. W. L. Distant, has been named Purohita arundinacea. A description of 



the insect will appear in the Supplement to Vol. IV. on Rhynchota by Distant 



in the Fauna of British India Series. 



CHAS. B. AUTRAM, 



Entomologist, Indian Tea Association. 

 htli February, 1907. 



No. XVIII. -CANTECONA FURCELLATA, WOLFF. 



Order — Hemiptera. Family — Pentatomidce. Sub-family — Asopina. 

 This Pentatomid Bug has previously been recorded as attacking the larva of 

 Hyblceapuera, a Noctiud moth, and the silkworms of the Tusser moth, feeding 



