52 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, 1892. 



75. An. punctiventris (Mayr). 



Calcutta; Nuddea, Bengal G. A. J. Rothaey (type). 



76. An. punctiventris (Mayr) race : Punensis (Forel in MS,) 



Poona Districts. 



This is probably tlie Dekhan form. At a first glance it resem- 

 bles a Or emastog aster, and I must confess I collected it as sucb, on 

 tbe only occasion on wbich I met it. I did not notice its jumping 

 powers, but^ looking back, with knowledge gained too late, I have 

 more than a strong suspicion that it used those powers ; that, at any 

 rate, is the only explanation which occurs to me of the marvellous 

 way in which the crowd of individuals, from among which I was 

 collecting specimens, seemed to melt away, before I had got half as 

 many as I required. 



77. An. Sedilottii (Emery) race: Indicus (Forel in MS.) 

 Poona District 19-6-90 $ ). 



I found my first nest in June, 1890 ; it contained a winged $ . 

 The ^ were engaged in long foraging rambles, from which each 

 returned laden with a Lepisma, about her own length (say | an 

 inch) carried in the way so characteristic of the Indian Poneridm. 

 The Lepisma was in no case dead^ or apparently injured, so that the 

 reason for its capture is doubtful. I could find none in the nest 

 when I dug it up, but as I had to perform this operation with a 

 penknife I may easily have overlooked them even had they been 

 . there. However, I have since seen Indicus bringing home termites 

 in the same way, so that I fear the rape of Lepisma was due to no 

 more romantic cause than hunger. I have tried every means I could 

 think of to make this species jump, but in vain. On one occasion only 

 one crawled on the forceps I was using and threw itself off. As a 

 jump it was a most insignificant performance, nevertheless it was 

 distinctly something more than a fall. Since receiving Mr, Fergu- 

 son's interesting note on the jumping of 0. hcematodes, however, 

 I have succeeded easily in making Anochetus ' spring ' in much the 

 same way ; the species is too small to enable the modus saltandi to 

 be distinctly seen, but the action is distinctly that of a * skip-jack* 

 beetle and not that of a grasshopper. 



