68 SPOLIA ZEYLANICA. 
REVIEW. 
Some South Indian Insects.* 
WE have just received from Mr. T. D. Chadwick, Director of 
the Madras Agricultural Department, a copy of an interesting 
volume by Mr. T. Bainbrigge Fletcher, R.N. (late of H. M. 
Survey Ship “ Sealark”’), F.LS., F.E.S., F.Z.S., Imperial 
Entomologist to the Government of India, and formerly 
Government Entomologist, Madras, entitled “‘ Some South 
Indian Insects and other Animals of importance considered 
especially from an economic point of view,’’ which has been 
issued by the Madras Government Press. The author 
distinctly states that the volume has no pretensions to the 
assumption of any status as a text book, and does not pretend 
to do much more then provide a narrow end tortuous entrance 
into the vast and almost untrodden field of insect life in 
South India. However modest the writer himself may be in 
this direction, we are sure that any one who peruses even 
casually the 564 pages of the work will agree that it is much 
more than the retiring author would have us believe. In 
addition to a large amount of information, no less than fifty 
splendidly coloured plates are provided, which have been 
prepared from the original drawings at the Agricultural 
Research Institute, Pusa. Most of these have been published 
before, and it is to this fact that so large a number of coloured 
plates are included in a book costing only six rupees, which 
figure is not the least of the surprises in the way of good 
value provided. The preliminary chapters give a general 
account of the structure, habits, &c., of insects and insect 
pests, which are necessarily brief, and, as the author says, 
incomplete, as any one of these might be expanded into a 
* «Some South Indian Insects,’ by T. Bainbrigge Fletcher, R.N., 
F.L.S., F.E.S., F.Z.8., Imperial Entomologist to the Government of 
India; 8vo., Superintendent of the Government Press, Madras, 1914. 

