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a specimen of some species of Typhlops from beneath some rubbish in my 
garden, 
Frogs and Toads I have not attempted to identify, and the same may 
be said as regards the few species of Fish that are obtainable in the neighbour- 
hood, We get Murreland Mahseer occasionally, but they generally have 
a muddy taste, and the only local Fish which is, in my opinion, worth eating 
is a so-called “ country whitebait,” but Ihave not the least idea to what 
species this belongs. 
About 50 species of Butterflies occur, chiefly in the rains, The most 
interesting are, perhaps, the various species of Teracolus, which is chiefly, if not 
exclusively, a desert genus. Some half a dozen species occur here, and some 
of them positively swarm during the rains. Moths are fairly numerous, 
‘but I have not yet attempted to identify those I collected, though I obtained 
a fair number, . 
One amusing incident I recall ; one evening at the beginning of the rains 
several death’s-head moths flew into the room, ana settled on the ceiling, 
There were a sreat many geckos about, most of them with their abdomens 
considerably distended from the number of small insects they had consumed. 
A gecko, bolder than the rest, rushed up to one of the death’s-head moths 
and seized it by a leg; another rushed up from the opposite side, and seized 
another leg. Then commenced a tug of war, which ended in the moth flying 
away,and both geckos falling on the floor. I could not see whether the 
moth got off without the loss of a leg or not. 
When I first arrived at Deesa, I noticed that there seemed to be more 
flymenoptera than any other order of insects, and though I had _ hitherto 
paid little or no attention to this branch of Entomology, I determined to 
collect and identify as many species as possible, Bingham’s volume dealing 
with a portion of the Hymenoptera in the Fauna of India Series had just 
been published, and the author kindly assisted me when I was in doubt, and 
described in this Journal some new species obtained by me, Since then I 
have found the study of this order of absorbing interest, and have devoted a 
considerable part of my spare time to the collection and identification of 
specimens, Hven in this barren locality I have succeeded in obtaining well 
over 150 species, not including Ants or Hymenoptera parasitica, A large pro- 
portion of these are apparently new species, and have yet to be described, 
The parasitic Hymenoptera are not numerous, except the Evanide, This 
genus is supposed to be parasitic on Blattidea, (Cockroaches, &c.), but I once 
bred a species of Evania from a larva of Teracolus pleione at Aden, so some 
of them are evidently parasitic on Lepidoptera, ! 
I collested a fair number of Diptera, which I sent to England to be identi- 
fied. One of the most interesting was the Horse Bot-fly, which I bred from 
larve passed by a horse. I do not yet know if it is the same species that 
oecurs in Europe 
