1918.] The Fifth Indian Science Congress. elv 
In 
the worship of Subramania and that of the serpent, and it is explain 
by the fact, that his most famous temples are on hill-tops, and that he is 
connected with the tree and penn worship and the Sylvan deities. 
Some remarks on Somatology of the people of Calcutta.— 
K. 8. Ray. 
In agg aereaed very little arintar ag has been paid to the shape of 
the trunk. But certain racial differences in this respect are well shown 
in a series of ne pith recently satin * the Indian Minin, Caleutta. 
The differences are to be found both in the shape of the trunk as 
viewed ‘team before or behind and in the peelile of the aieicadienl region 
Notes on the life-history of Ophiocephalus punctatus, Bloch. 
ARAYAN Rao. 
The observations recorded in the paper ei pees op a 
published accounts in certain Sopher: such as instance the mode 
of ae meeps of the oil globule to the liver, the pedis of the por fins 
and th 
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detail in a paper to be published soon; fn plat be noticed 
here that at about the same stage, the circulation in the yolk sac in the 
larvae of O. punctatus differs with that described by Dr. A. Willey in 
those of O. striatus. 
Some og Indian Coccidae of Mpegs » importanios. — 
By T aS AYYA 
litle k known in India knowledge of these will be very to fruit 
d horticulturists as th a partial to trees 
of various kind e object of the paper is to point out the importance 
f these insects to agriculturists in gen rdners and ore ts 
: The r deals with 32 species which have so far ap 
some part efi ts) as economic 
a few Lins a 3 ~ apr rg eas field crops, while most 
increase y M6 
— ar in the fruit area of the country. A knowledge 
kan. local, “ste za also peg ue to know the foreign a that are 
dan: ted S ; hic h kno 
rhia in the Parson fruit tracts of Aus tralia, dor Africa = 
on M the forms noted are illustrated with diagrams whic 
help. one in identifying them to a certain extent. 
