23. Preliminary observations on Cocoon-formation by the 
common LahoreLeech, Limnatis (Pecilobdelia), gran- 
ulosa (Sav.).' 
By G. Marruat. 
[With plate XVII. | 
(Read before the Indian Science Congress at Nagpore, January, 1919.) 
hirty-four specimens of normal adult size were kept 
under observation from May 23 to June 23. Each specimen 
Texr-riG. 1.—Specimen No. 15 in pot with newly laid cocoon. 
was placed amongst moist lumps of clayey earth in a separate 
earthen pot which in its turn was set in a bow of water a. 
m indebted to the authorities of the Indian eteonde Caleut 
this species. After I had ma e the bows 
District, Unite a Provinces Poco Ind. Mus., 
the breeding seaso said to commence in 
beginning of the ra ray 
, p- 206, 191 
April or } May just before the 
