CONTENTS OF VOLUME XV III. 

 No. 1. 



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Indian Ducks and their Allies. (Plate XXV.) The Ruddy 



Sheldrake or Brahminy Duck (Casarca rati! a)... Frontispiece. 

 A Popular Treatise on the Common Indian Snakes. Part V. 



The Russell's Viper (Vipera russellii) {With Plate F.) 



By Major F. Wall, i.m.s., c.m.z.s 1 



The ' Shot-borers' of Bamboos and Wood-borers of Pinus 



long/folia. By E. P. Stebbing, l.r.s., f.r.s., f.z.s., f.e.s. 18 

 The effect. of the Moons Phases on the period of felling 



Bamboos. By E. P. Stebbing 21 



The Moths of India. Supplementary paper to the 



Volumes in " The Fauna of British India." Series III, 



Part IX. (With a Plate) By Sir George Hampson, Bart., 



F.z.s., f.e.s 27 



The Flora of Aden. Part II. By E. Blatter, s. j 54 



Notes on a trip after the Ovis poll. ( With a Plate) By 



Colonel G. D. F. Sulivan, late 4th D. G ... 69 



On the Birds of the Chindwin, Upper Burma. By Major 



A. Mears, Survey of India, and Eugene W. Oates, f.z.s. ... 78 

 The Orchids of the Bombay Presidency. Part V. (With 



Plate IV) By G. A. Gammie, f.l.s 88 



Some Indian Freshwater Shells. By Gordon Dalgliesh ... 92 

 Notes on Snakes collected in Fyzabad. (With Plates I 



& II) By Major F. Wall, i.m.s., c.m.z.s 101 



On a New Genus and some new Species of Aculeate Hyme- 



noptera collected by lleut.-col. c. g. nurse in 



Baluchistan. By P. Cameron 130 



Descriptions of Indian Micro-Lepidoptera. Part V. By E. 



Meyrick, b.a., f.r.s., f.z.s 137 



Blood-Sucking Insects and Tropical Diseases. By E. Ray 



Lankester 161 



Review : — l * Indian Insect Pests " 181 



The Late Mr. L. C. H. Young 184 



