JOURNAL 



OF THE 



BOMBAY 



Uatantl ^^ — & 



Q. 



Vol. xv. BOMBAY. No. 2. 



INSECT LIFE IN INDIA AND HOW TO STUDY IT, 



BEING 



A SIMPLE ACCOUNT OF THE MORE IMPORTANT FAMILIES OF INSECTS, 



WITH EXAMPLES OF THE DAMAGE THEY DO TO CROPS, 



TEA, COFFEE AND INDIGO CONCERNS, FRUIT, 



AND FOREST TREES IN INDIA 



BY 



E. P. STEBBING, f.l.s., f.e.s. 

 Introduction. 



In a pamphlet * published as an Appendix to Volume XNVII of the 

 Indian Forester (1901), I described, under the title cf " A Note on the 

 collection and preservation of entomological specimens, with a descrip- 

 tion of the methods to be employed in the study of life-histories of 

 Insects," some simple apparatus necessary to the would-be student of 

 the Insect World — whether his aim be that of the collector only or that 

 of the investigator — whose desire is to make himself acquainted with 

 the life-histories and habits of this exceedingly interesting class of the 

 Animal Kingdom. I alluded shortly to the lines upon which this latter 

 work should be taken up. 



In a series of papers f entitled l The Insect World in an Indian Forest, 

 published in the Indian Forester, I have endeavoured to give in some- 

 what fuller detail some notes upon the groat Orders and Families of 



* The pamphlet can be obtained from the Curator, Imperial Forest School, Dehra Dun. 



f These papers are still appearing in the Indian Forester. The Introduction and Part 

 I appeared in No. 9, Part I (continued), Part II in No. 11, and Part III, wrongly named, 

 Part II in No. 12 of Vol. XXXVII, and Part IV (wrongly numbered Part III) in No. 1, 

 Pact V in No 2, Part V (continued) in No 3, Part VI in No. 4, Part VI (continued) in 

 No. 5, Part VII in No. 6, Part VIII in No. 7 and Part IX (conclusion) in No. 3 of 

 Vol. XXIX (1903). The Introductory portion and Part I are but slightly modifiod from 

 what has already appeared in the Indian Forester Series. 



