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spiders. In the six cells there would have been something like 600 

 spiders. 



It is evidently most unusual for them to store so many as in the first 

 cell I examined — as I have examined some others since and one contained 

 15 — some large and some small^ — whilst another contained only 3, but they 

 were very large bodied spiders. A third cell examined had 11 spiders in it. 



The speed at which they work is very great. A little after 10 o'clock one 

 started to make her cell, when I looked again at 3-30 she had not only 

 linished it but stored it and sealed up the entrance and it was quite dry. 

 It contained 15 spiders. 



F. FIELD. 



Camp via Fyzabad, 

 August 1914. 



[The mason- wasp, sent by Mr. Field, is Scelqjliron coromandelicum. — Eds, J 



No. XL.— NOTE ON TIGER-BEETLES FROM COORG. 



The following Tiger-beetles (Cicindelidte) amongst others as yet undeter- 

 mined, were taken during a recent visit to Coorg in May 1914. 



Cicindela viridicincta, Horn. — Quite common on one path at PoUibetta, 

 South Coorg. Only recorded previously from Kanara and Nilgiris in 

 Southern India and from Ohota Nagpur. (Fowler, Faun. India Cicind., 

 p. 328). 



Cicindela dujjonti, Dej. — Two specimens from PoUibetta, where it was not 

 common. A widely-distributed species. (Fowler, I.e., p. 382.) 



Cicindela hamiltoniana, Thoms. — Common on a path at PoUibetta. Pre- 

 viously recorded from Travancore, Mysore and the Nilgiris. Fowler {I.e., 

 p. 391-392) says that it is usually considered a very scarce insect and is 

 evidently very local, and that it appears to be semi-arboreal in habits. That 

 it is very local is evident from the fact that I only saw the species on one 

 portion of a single path which passed between the secondary jungle which 

 had grown up on an abandoned part of a Coffee Estate.. The beetles, 

 however, were only found on the ground, where they sat with head elevated 

 at a considerable angle. They ^are alert and agile, as indeed might bo 

 guessed from the length of the slender legs which are well shown in 

 Fowler's figure. 



Cicindela hoemorrhoidalis, Wied.- — Found on paths at and near PoUibetta, 

 but by no means common. Very active and wary. A widely-distributed 

 species. (Fowler, I.e., pp. 402-403.) 



Cicindela striolata. III. — Fairly common on paths, both in North and 

 South Coorg; seems to exhibit a preference for shady paths. This is also 

 a widely-distributed species. (Fowler, I.e., pp. 419-421.) 



T. BAINBRIGGE FLETCHER. 



PusA, BiHAK, 22«cZ July 1914. 



No. XLI.— NOTE ON CICADAS. 



This insect comes out in thousands from the ground, at the bottom of a 

 tree at Gangtok, elevation 6,000 feet. It emerges from a circular hole, 

 there being no indieation on the surface of the ground that there is a very 

 large colony of them underneath, although year after year they emerge in 

 countless numbers from the same plot of ground, soft yellow clay, with 

 sand underneath, mixed with the yellow clay, covered with green slime and 



