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months and all endeavours to feed it or rear it failed. An investigation 
into the habits of these larvse in the field would yield interesting results, 
and it is possible that they play an important part in checking some 
insects. The imagines are found flying under trees or in grass and are 
apparently principally crepuscular in habit. 
Westwood describes the following species of Ascalaphus (Cat. Or. 
Entom., 1847), and figures the first three :— 
A. tessellatus (pi. XXXIV, fig. 1), A. segmentator (pi. XXXIV, fig. 2), 
A. canifrons (pi. XXXIV, fig. 3), A. dentifer , A. angulatus , A. ohscurus. 
No species had been previously described from India and ten have 
been since added. (Weele in Selys Collection, 1908). 
Fig. 70.—Ascalaphid larva, x 18. Fig. 71.— Eggs of ascalaphid, x 2. 
Nemopterince .—The hind wings are long and very narrow, project¬ 
ing backwards beyond the body. 
