MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 879 



for the male is well-known. But has a similar crime ever been recorded 

 of the mantis family ? Some years ago in the Empress Gardens at Poona 

 I found a mating pair of a large green species and the female was quietly 

 dining off her lord and master ! This may seem incredible, but is neverthe- 

 less absolute fact. Could the suffrage have been in question ? 



A. H. MOSSE, Capt., i.a., 

 Dwarka, -ith November 1910. Assistant Resident, Okhamandal. 



No. XXXVII.— A NEW INDIAN GRASS-HOPPER INJURIOUS TO 

 AGRICULTURE [COLEMANIA SPHENAHIOIDES, Bol.). 



In October 1909 specimens of a grass-hopper were sent to the Entomolo- 

 gical Laboratory in Bangalore from Davanagere in the northern part of 

 Mysore with the statement that they had been noticed for the first time 

 and that they were doing some damage to crops, chiefly to cholam 

 {Andropogon sorghum). Later in the same season specimens of the same 

 form were collected at Honnali about 30 miles west of Davanagere where 

 the damage to cholam had in cases been very severe. 



This grass-hopper was identified provisionally as a species of Orthacris 

 and specimens of it were sent to Prof. Ignacio Bolivar of Madrid, the lead- 

 ing authority on the sub-family Pyrgomorpliinoi- to which this genus 

 belongs. Professor Bolivar informed me that the grass-hopper was not an 

 Orthacris but belonged to a new genus. In the mean time a note by 

 Mr. Maxwell Lefroy on the same grass-hopper appeared in this Journal, 

 No. 4, Vol. XIX, (1910), page 1007, in which he proposes for it the name 

 " Deccan grass-hopper " on account of its distribution. He also notes its 

 growing importance as a pest and identifies it as an Orthacris, probably a 

 new species. 



Prof. Bolivar has now published the descriptions of the new genus and 

 species in the Boletin de la Real Sociedad Espanola de Historia natural, 

 July 1910 (page 319) under the title " Nuevo Locustido de la India, Per- 

 judicial a la Agricultura {Colemania sphenarioides, Bol.)." As it seems 

 probable that this Spanish journal is inaccessible to most of those interested 

 in Entomology in India and as this insect is likely to prove of increasing 

 importance from a practical standpoint, I have thought it advisable, with 

 Prof. Bolivar's permission, to communicate his descriptions to this Journal. 

 I retain the descriptions in their original latin form. As the rest of 

 Prof. Bolivar's paper is written in Spanish and is largely based upon the 

 notes sent by me I have translated those parts of it which are of particular 

 interest. 



" Colemania, gen. nov. 



Corpus elongatum, subcylindricum, in tf valde fusiforme, medio fornica- 

 tum. Caput conicum. Eastigium elongatum superne carinula media 

 distincta, horizontaliter productum, antice obtuse rotundatum, oculo 



