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insects sent to the Indian Museum as destructive to crops, with descrip- 

 tions of new species by Messrs. Moore, Buckton and Kerremans. In 

 the same periodical also appear reports by Mr. Cotes on the Wild Silk 

 Insects of India, on White Insect Was in India, and on the Locusts of 

 Bengal, Madras, Assam and Bombay ; also a paper by the late Mr. E. T. 

 Atkinson on American blight. 



In the Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, Mr. Watson 

 writes on some butterflies of the Chin Lushai Hills ; Mr. Betham on the 

 butterflies of the Central Provinces ; and Mr. de Niceville on new and 

 little known butterflies from the Indo-Malayan region. Brief entomo- 

 logical notes also appear by Captain Sage and Mr. Wroughton, besides 

 a reprint of a report by Mr. Cotes on the Locust of North- Western 

 India, which was out of print. 



In the Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, Colonel 

 Swinhoe describes a number of new species of moths from South India. 

 Mr. Snellen gives a Catalogue of the Pyralidina of Sikkim, and Profes- 

 sor Westwood describes an aphid which infests bread-fruit trees in 

 Ceylon. 



In the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, Mr. Kirby 

 describes several new species of dragon-flies from Ceylon, and Mr. 

 Elwes discusses the butterflies collected by Mr. W. Doherty in the Naga 

 and Karen Hills and in Perak. 



In the Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Mr. Kirby gives 

 a revision of the Forficulidaj, and amongst others, he describes some 

 new species from India and Ceylon. 



In the Amials and Magazine of Natural History, Mr. Gahan des- 

 cribes five new species of Longicorn Coleoptera and three new Galerucida? ; 

 Mr. Waterhouse describes five new species of Scarabaaida? ; and Mr. 

 Warren three new species of Pyralida? ; all from the Indian region. 



In the Annates de la Societe Entomologigue de Belgique are a series 

 of papers on the Coleoptera collected by Mons. Cavdon, Missionary in 

 Chota Nagpore. Of these Coleoptera, the Buprestidaa are described by 

 Mons. Kerremans, the Trictenotomicke and Cerarnbycidae by Mons. 

 Lameere, the Haliplidaa, Dytiscidas and Gyrinidas by Mons. Severin, the 

 Cicindelidaa by Mons. Fleutiaux, and the Elateridae by Mons. Candeze. 

 Mons. Forel also describes some new species of Indian ants ; Mons. 

 Kerremans writes on a Buprestid from the Indian Museum collection, 

 and Mons. Haylaerts describes some new Indian Psychida?. 



In the Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Literary and Philo- 

 sophical Society, Mr. Cameron describes a number of minute Hymeno- 

 ptcra, some of them from the Indian Museum collections. 



The contribution to Indian Botany during the year under review 



