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II. A few species taken in Trichinopoli, near Kodai- 

 kanal, enumerated by Bolivar (97), in which paper 

 de Bormans describes some new species. 

 III. Scattered references to Indian localities in general 

 works upon Orthoptera, or on Dermaptera, such 

 as Gue'rin (38), Dohrn (63-67), de Bormans (83) 

 and (00), Diibrony (79), VVestwood (39), and so on. 

 IV. Material in the collections of the Museums of 

 Brussels, Budapest and Paris, reported on by Burr 

 (00), (02), (07^), (08^) and (OS^- 

 V. Material in the Oxford University INluseum ; no 

 account of this collection has yet been published, 

 but the material has been kindly lent to the author 

 by Professor E. B. Poulton, M.A., F.R.S. 

 VI. A paper on the Earwigs of Ceylon, by Burr (01), 

 based chiefly on material collected by Mr. E. 

 Ernest Green, Government Entomologist, at the 

 Royal Botanic Gardens, Peradeniya. 

 VII. Material in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, mostly 

 taken by Dr. Nelson Annandale, and published by 

 Burr (05*), (06') and (07-), including some com- 

 municated by Mr. Maxwell Lefroy, Imperial 

 Entomologist at Pusa, Bengal. 

 VIII. Material specially collected for the purpose of this 

 work, and communicated to the author, by Mr. T. 

 B. Fletcher, formerly of H.M.S. ' Sealark,' 

 quartered at Ceylon, and by Dr. A. Willey, of 

 Colombo. 

 IX. Material from various sources contained in the 

 author's collection and in the collection of Mon- 

 sieur Henri Gadeau de Kerville, of Rouen, who 

 has very obligingly placed his specimens very freely 

 at the author's disposition. 

 But for the efforts of the gentlemen named above, the 

 number of species and localities in the following work would 

 have been reduced by about half. The author takes this 

 opportunity of repeating his thanks for their valuable and 

 enthusiastic help. 



