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1919, Enzeli, Caspian Sea, N. W. Persia, Var. mongolica, Rehn, abundant among 

 driftwood and rubbish on the shore. On 14th July after sunset on the beach 

 I saw a white object moving among driftwood. I found that it was a small 

 fish, dead and dry, being carried by one of these large earwigs in its forceps. 

 The above three species are very widely distributed and their occurrence in 

 Mesopotamia and N. W. Persia is in no way remarkable. 



Psalis femoralis, Dohrn var., 27th June to 10th August, Amara, not common 

 at hght (W. E. E. and P. A. B.). Prof. Borelli tells me that these specimens 

 only differ from P. femoralis, Dohrn, in lacking a brown spot on the femur, and 

 being without a metallic reflection on the elytree in these particulars they 

 agree with what Dohrn described as P. plebeja, which is probably a variety of 

 P. femoralis and has at present only been recorded from Java. In any case 

 the occurrence of Psalis, an Oriental genus, in Mesopotamia is of considerable 

 interest. 



P. A. BUXTON. 



Trinity College, Cambridge. 

 March 1921. 



m. XXX.— NEW LOCALITIES FOR RARE AND LITTLE 

 Kl^OWN SPHINGID^ {HAWK MOTHS). 



I found a specimen of Oxyamhulyx canescens (Walker) at rest on the upperside 

 of a leaf of Dipterocarpus tuberculatus, Roxb. (Burmese name Eng or In) 

 on the banks of the Chindwin River, Upper Chindwin Dist., Northern Burma, 

 in the month of July. The species has hitherto never been found in Burma, it 

 having only been recorded from the Andaman Islands, Penang, Cochin China, 

 Cambodia and Borneo, and its discovery so far north in Bm'ma is therefore an 

 interesting fact worth recording. It is apparently a rare insect and its early stages 

 are unlinown ; it is quite possible the larva feeds on Dipterocarpus tuberculatus, 

 as this tree is the food-plant of another much commoner species of the same 

 genus, viz., Oxyambuly.v substrigilissubstrigilis (West-wood) which also inhabits 

 the same locaHty. I also caught a specimen of Cizara sculpta (Felder) hovering 

 over flowers of Clerodendron infortimatum in the early morning twihght at Insein, 

 Insein Dist., Lower Burma, in March. This is an; exceedingly rare species and 

 has only previously been recorded from Siam and South India. Its early 

 stages which were hitherto unknown to science have recently been discovered 

 by my youngest son ; the larva was found feeding on Gardenia sessiliflora 

 (Rubiacece) during the months of November to March. A description of its 

 early stages and further particulars regarding its life-history are given under 

 another heading. 



Insein, Lower Burma, C. E. FELLOWES-MANSON, 



3rd February 1920. 



No. XXXI— DESCRIPTION OF ANEW OALEOMMA FROM BOMBAY. 

 By J. R, LE B. TOMLIN, m.a. 



(Read before the Conchological Society, 8th December 1920.) 



Galeomma peilei, n.sp. 



Shell very similar in general appearance to G. indecora, Deshayes, which 

 was found by Cuming at Masbate, under stones at low water, but rather larger, 

 longer, and more completely rounded at either extremity, these being practically 



