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Memoirs of the Indian Museum. 



[Vol. V, 



Dollfus referred specimens from the Bermuda Islands to Ligia exotica, Roux, but dis- 

 tinguished them as a variety hirtitarsis, owing to the series of bristles on the carpus 

 of the anterior legs of the male. These specimens, however, would no doubt more 

 properly be referred to Ligia baudiniana, with which Miss Richardson has united 

 them. 



Collectors' Note. "This species is found in boats and on the shore, where there 

 are stones or rocks, all over the lake. On Barkuda I. it is enormously abundant. 

 Though individuals may .be found running on the shore at all times of the day and 

 night, even on rocks heated by the midday sun, the species is most active in the 

 morning and evening. It may then be seen in great droves, numbering sometimes 

 hundreds of individuals, all of which move in the same direction. It is also found 

 on tree-trunks at some little distance from water, but never in dense jungle. When 

 a drove, in its peregrinations by the margin of the lake, comes to a pool of water 





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Ailoniscus pigmentatus, Bud de-Lund. 

 Fig. 23. — Second antenna. Fig. 24.— First leg of male. 



the animals do not hesitate to swim across it, but otherwise they avoid water, 

 whether fresh or brackish. In the heat of the day large numbers take shelter under 

 the masses of dead weed that are thrown up on the beach and. beneath large stones." 



Ailoniscus pigmentatus, Budde-Iyund. 



(Figs. 23 to 28). 



Ailoniscus pigmentatus, Budde-Lund, 1885, p. 227. 



„ ,, Budde-Lund, 1908, p. 297, pi. xv, figs. 23-38. 



,, ,, Budde-Lund, 1912, p. 385, pi. xxii, fig. 7. 



Barkul Point, Lake Chilka Survey, Station. No. 47.. No. ^fg-°. About 20 specimens. 1 



1 I have no information as to the circumstances under which these specimens were collected, but 

 in the tube in which they were sent were several small specimens of an Aega or allied genus very similar 

 in colour, size and general appearance to the Ailoniscus pigmentatus. 



