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The accompanying transfer shows extreme variations in markings. The 
specimen sketched by iVIi'. C. Dover seems to be an intermediate one taken about 
he end of the wet season. 
Coloured sketches of the larva and pupa are with my specimens in the National 
collection.” 
No. XXXI.— A NOTE ON THE OCCURRENCE OF A SPECIES OF 
THE FAMILY RAPHIDID^ IN BRITISH INDIA. 
The family Raphididae is generally regarded as being allied to the Sialidae 
and uith it forms the comparatively new order Megaloptera. There are two 
genera : Raphidia and Inocellia, easily distinguished from each other by the 
fact that in the fonner genus three ocelli are present on the head, while in the 
latter they are entirely absent. In his recent account of the [family in Genera 
Insectorum, Megaloptera (191.3), Dr. Esben-Petersen gives the distribu'iou as 
Palaearctic and Neartic regions, one species being also found in the Neotropical 
region. This is Raphidia herbsti, Petersen, from Chile. The family has not hitherto 
been recorded from the Oriental or Australian regions. While putting away a 
collection of insects made by myself in the jungle around Calcutta in Novem- 
ber, 1920, I found a species of Raphididae among them, and a search through 
the collection of Neuropteroid insects belonging to the Zoological Survey of India 
revealed another, but badly damaged, specimen, labelled “Upper Burma.” 
Mr. T. Bainbrigge Fletcher very kindly informs me that he has specimens of 
the genus Inocellia from Shillong in the Pusa collection which he thinks might 
be new. These are being referred to Dr. Petersen for identification. 
With the assistance of Mr. H. Srinivasa Rao, M. A., I have identified the Cal- 
cutta specimen as Inocellia crassicornis, Schummel (cf. Petersen, loc. cit. p. 11, 
pi. 2, fig. 3) and the Burmese example probably belongs to the same species 
