134 BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY: 
Remigia frugalis. 
Noetua frugals, Fabrv., Ent. Syst. i., 2, p. 188 (1794). 
Remigia translata, Walker, xxxiti., 1015, 2 (1865). 
July to October, common, 
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Remigia arefacta. 
Remigia arefacta, Swinhoe, P. Z.S., 1884, p. 52, pl. 48, f. 2. 
May, 1880. : 
(To be continued.) 
LG NOTES. 
ZOOLOGICA 
HOT WEATHER NOTES IN THE CENTRAL PROVINCHS, 1887. 
By Captain HF BrcuiR hk. A, i. ZS. 
Last hot weather (1887) I spent in the jungles in the Central Provinces, not 
very far from Nagpore. The following are extracts from notes I wrote down at 
the time :— 
During April I noticed a great number of might jars flying about at dusk and 
dawn with their perfectly noiseless flight. Iwas unable to identify the species. They 
for the most part used to make a constant chirping noise like a cricket. I fancied 
at the time that it was to attract the various chirping insects in the grass, who would 
answer, and thus disclose their whereabouts. I[ could not tell the difference between 
the sound of the night jar’s chirp and that of the insect. A great number of large 
Cicade always used to be seen in the evening and early morning which used to 
take that locust-lke flight. Ihave a note on the 22nd April: “In the evening, in 
the jungle, there were in one place hundreds if not thousands of Cicade seated 
on the small trees, which flew off as we passed, to the great danger of our eyes.”’ 
On the 17th April I shot two couple of pintailed snipe and eat them ; they were 
not good. I did a good deal of sitting up in machans with, as usual, no success, 
Something always occurred to spoil my chance. On one occasion a tiger woke me 
upin the early morning by killing the buffalo which I had tied up. It is an abused 
method of shikar, but I fail to see the reason ; for any one who takes an interest in 
other than the “ beasts of the chase ”’ it is most delightful. I used to take my bed- 
ding, notebook, water bottle aud couple of chapatties for dinner ; send all natives 
back to camp, and spend the whole night there. After one of these nights I find 
have written: “ There seem to be distinct periods of insect annoyance and otherwise, 
commencing from about 4 p.m. First, innumerable flies, principally a black T-like 
fly, of sluggish and pertinaceous habits : one’s eyes are the principal points of attack. 
As the sun goes down they disappear, and the Cicade turns up with a deafening 
chorus, but this ceases as darkness sets in, and then the mosquitoes have their 
time ; but I always found that the 12 feet or so of machan above the ground is 
above the thick mosquito stratum; in the same place, but at water level, I have 
been driven away by them, clothes affording no protection, as they drove their 
lancets right through. Soon after taking up my position, some jungle or spur 
