346 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [ August, 1906. 
APTERA. 
LEPISMID. 
ACROTELSA COLLARIS (Fabr.). 
Lepisma collaris, Fabricius, Entom. Syst. ii. (1793), p. 64: 
Lepisma collaris, Burmeister, Handb. d. Entom. v. 2 (1838), p. 457 : 
Lepisma niveofasciata, Templeton in Trans. Entom. Soc. v. 3 (1843), 
p. 302: Lepisma collaris, Gervais, Walk. Ms. Apt. v. 3 (1844), 
p- 453: Lepisma cincta, Oudemans, Weber, Zoolog. Ergebnisse v. 1 
1890), p. 80, t. 6, fig 1: Acrotelsa collaris (Fabr.), Eischerich, 
Bibliotheca Zoologica, xvii. (1905), p. 107, figs. 43a- b, and pl. i. 
3. 
fig. 
This large Fish Insect was obtained by Dr. N. Annandale in 
Calcutta. It may e quite common in houses among 0 
etc., but very few specimens have been collected in Southern Asia 
Tn fact this is the first one recorded from India. It has a very 
wide distribution, having been recorded from the West Indies, La 
Guayra, seine Maracaibo, Dahoma, the Seychelles, Java, Ceylon 
and Madagase 
ORTHOPTERA. 
BLATTIDA. 
PERIPLANETA BIOCULATA, De Sauss. MS. 
There is a RY in the Indian Museum Collection, 
labelled by de Saussure as “ P. bioculata, female larva,” together 
with two others edie 4 were collected by Dr..N. Annandale at 
arpur, Chota Nagpur, under stones in March, and 
several from Java (Forbes). 
Some of these specimens are in all eS te adult wingless 
females, as ‘thers can be seen in nearly every one at the sides of 
the anterior eae “Of the pronotum ; black, narrowest betwee 
an ‘ it mi 
inner margins of the antennal cavities. 
Antenne black, becomi ing isis towards apex, filiform 
