CONTENTS. 



Papers read at the Meeting. 



47. The life history of Caliijula cachara, by J. Henry Watson . . . . 



48. Life-histories of Indian Microlepidoptera {Abstract), by T. Bainbrigge Fletcher 



49. Exhibition of drawings, by Major F. C. Fraser, I. M.S., of early stages of Indian 



Butterflies ............ 



50. The life-history of Orthezia insifjnis, by K. Kunhi Kannan 



51. The function of the chitinous plate in Bruchus QlUneiisis (AbstriKt), by K. Kunhi 



Kannan ........... 



52. Some Insect Prey of Birds in the Central Provinces, by E. A, D'Abreu 



53. Life-history of Comocrilis pieria, by R. Senior- White .... 



54. Xotes on rearing insects in hot countries, by T. Bainbrigge Fletcher and C. C 



Gliosh . . .,.-.... 



55. Breeding Cages and general insectary technique for wood-borers, by C. Beeson 

 .50. Notes on night-flying dragon-flies, by Major F. C. Fraser 



57. Note-on larva of C'atocAcj/sops s(rn6o, by Major F. C. Fraser . 



58. Spiders as checks on lepidopterous larva;, by Major F. C. Fraser 



59. The comparative invisibility of Papilio dcinvlcus during flight, Iiy Dr. E. H 



Hankin ........... 



430. The forms of Papilio polytes, by Professor E. B. Poult on 



■61. The importance of insects to fisheries in India, by Dr. Baini Prashad 



■62. Note on a musciphagous wasp, by T. V. Ramakrishna A}-yar 



63. Notes on the life-history of Cnntao ocellatus. by T. V. Ramakrishna Ayj'ar 



<)4 Notes on the life-history of Polyplychiis dentatus, by T. V. Ramakrislina Ayyar 



Ho. Some observations on the life-history of an Eroli/lid breeding in Italian millet, 



by P. V. Isaac .......... 



'66. The Ufe-history of the Moringa stem-borer, by T. V. Subramaniam 



67. Notes on the life-history of the Po/^t flea-bectlf (Longitarsus nigripcnnia) of 



pepper, by T. V. Ramakrishna Ayyar ...... 



€8. On some of the bionomics of Bruchida", by R. S. Kasergode . 



69. On the insect parasites of some Indian crop-pests, by T. V. Ramakrishna 



Ayyar . . . ' 



70. Hints on collecting and preserving insects, by T. Bainbrigge Fletcher 



71. A method of preserving butterflies and other insects, by Dr. E. H. Hankin 



72. The importance of collecting, by Dr. D. Sharp ..... 



73. Note on a very curious GeoAietrid larva, by T. Bainbrigge Fletcher 



74. Indian Epipyropidfe, by T. Bainbrigge Fletcher .... 



75. Indian Fossil Insects, by T. Bainbrigge Fletcher . . . 



76. The dcsirabihty and praotioabiUty of the preparation - and pubUcation of 



general catalogue of aU described Indian Insects, b}' T. Bainbrigge Fletohe 



77. A sketch of our present knowledge of Indian Microlepidoptera, by E. Meyrick 



78. The Trichonymphid parasites of some Indian Termites, by Captain FroUano 



dcMeUo 



79. GenitaUa of some Ceylonese Hesperiada?, by W. Qrmiston 



80. On the BoUworm parasite described as Rhogns lefroyi by Dudgeon and Gough, 



by Professor C. T. Brues ........ 



81. Some recently npted South Indian MololimtliidK of economic importance, by 



P. V. Isaac 



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