3a JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, 1892. 



the rain falls, and tlie skies are clouded, the whole community 

 swarms to the surface, and ^ may everywhere be found, seizing 

 and carrying off the dead and dying 6 , of their own, and other 

 species, evidently as food, so that their regimen is not always 

 strictly limited to pastoral products. Probably, at this time of the 

 year, their cattle are immature, and vegetable juices are not easily 

 available. They are great wanderers, and I scarcely ever remember 

 to have commenced digging a nest of Pheidole, Holeomyrmex, or any 

 other species, without g of some species of Qamponotus turning up 

 apparently in a terrible hurry, and evidently attracted by the 

 concussion, caused by the blows of my pick. When larvae or 

 pup» were turned up, each individual seized on one, and made off 

 in the same excited, hurried way, in which she arrived. 

 1. C. maculatus (Fab.) race: — compressus (Fab.) 



Poena Districts. (5 $ c5' in June). 



Kanara E. H. Aitken. 



C. Provinces J. A. Betham. 



Salem, Madras A. Burroughs Sharpe 



Sunderbuns Robt. Ellis. 



Bengal, Madras. G. A. J. Rothney, ( $ c? in May and June). 



Dharmsala, Punjab Major Sage. 



Rai Bareilli, Oudh Dr. Simpson. 



Kondmals, Orissa Jas. Taylor. 



Trincomalee, Ceylon Major Yerbury. 



This is a very common species, distributed, more or less, all over 

 India. I have often found it 'herding' Leptocentrus taurus. 

 Mr. Cotes, of the Indian Museum, Calcutta, who kindly identified 

 this bug for me, wrote : •' I saw this species in Dehra Dun last year, 

 " on the branches of a tree, attended by a lot of large black ants, 

 " which I took to be the common G. sylvaticus."* I did not observe 

 '' them very carefully however. Mr. Wood-Mason also notices, that he 

 " has seen a similar insect attended by ants in Calcutta.-" I have also 

 found it tending a species of PsylUd, which, through the kindness 

 of Mr. Cotes, has been identified, by M. Lethierry, as a new species 

 of Biaphorina, and named, and described by him, in the Journal of 



* C. sylvaticus (Oliv.) is a synonym of this species. 



