300 Records of the Indian Museum. [Voi,. XXIV, 



Family Machiudae. 



A species similar to Machilontus gruvelyi Silvestri ' is fairly 

 common in the house and on the shore of the island. It appears 

 to be most abundant in August. 



Family Lepismatidae. 

 Acrotelsa collaris Fabr. 



Barkuda, several examples, i5-22'viri6 ; 25'vii-4"viiri7 ; 

 (Annandale and Gravely). 



This species is represented in the collection of the Zoological 

 Survey of India from : Stilbrook Garden, Coonoor, Nilgiri Hills; 

 Bangalore, 3000 feet, Mysore State (Annandale, I4 - x , io) ; Ram- 

 bha, Lake Chilka (A nnandale, ix'13) ; Khurda Road, Orissa (Gravely, 

 "at light," I3'xri2) ; Barkul, o-iooofeet (Gravely, " in bungalow," 

 xi'i2 and 1— 3"viii* 14), and Balugaon to Barkul in Orissa (Gravely, 

 "from nest of Stegodyphus sarasinorum," rviiri.4) ; Peradeniya, 

 Ceylon (27 - vi'io); Sasan, Kathiawar (Agharkar, 5-7 - xiii2), Val- 

 van and Kas, 3700 feet in the Satara District, Bombay Presidency ; 

 Pass between Chakradharpur, Chota Nagpur (Gravely, 2— 4'iii'i3) ; 

 Allahabad, United Provinces (Imms, " in bungalow," i9 - viii-07 and 

 2'ivio); Calcutta (Gravely, "among old paper," io/xi'io; An- 

 nandale, " in entomological room of museum," 20/vi'i2and 2i*iv" 

 14; Annandale, " museum wall," rxiio; " museum compound," 

 Ii'xiii; Gravely, " in house," ivi'i2); Tollygunj near Calcutta 

 (Gravely, xii'i6) ; Ross I., Andamans (Paiva, ' ' under flower pot," 

 26'iiiii) ; Municipal Office, Darjiling, 6000-7000 feet (Carmichael 

 collection, 20/vi - i4); Simla, 7000 feet, W. Himalayas (Annandale, 

 I2-I3-VI3). 



Acrotelsa collaris has a very wide distribution, having been 

 recorded from the West Indies, Sa Guayra, Curacao, Maracaibo, 

 Dahome, the Seychelles, Java, Ceylon and Madagascar, and also 

 occurs in most parts of India. We have no records of this species 

 from Burma though it probably occurs there and also in Malaya. 

 In 1906 the late Mr. Paiva wrote 2 that " it may be quite common 

 in houses among old books, etc., but very few specimens have 

 been collected in Southern Asia." Further investigation seem to 

 show that this is one of the commonest fish-insects in houses in 

 Peninsular India, and the above list of localities where it has been 

 collected prove that Paiva's remarks are no longer applicable 

 to this Lepismatid. I,efroy 8 states that Lepisma saccharina 

 is apparently the Himalayan species, but as the Indian Museum 

 has no specimen of this cosmopolitan fish-insect from the Him- 

 alayas, though fairly extensive collections of Thysanura have 

 been made there, and I can find no record of it from India in the 



1 Zool. Anz, XL, p. 6 (1912). 



* Joitrn. Asiat. Soc. Beng. (n. s.) II, p. 34O (190(1). 



8 Indian Insect Life, p. 45 (Calcutla: 1909). 



