XXIII THE FAUNA OF AN ISLAND IN 

 CHILKA LAKE. 



Contents of Part I. 



1. Introduction. B)" N. .\nnandale. 



2. Birds. By N. Annandale. 



3. Reptiles and Batrachia. By N. Annandale. 



4. Cicindelid Beetles. By N. Annandale and C. Do\'er. 



5. Carabidae. By H. E. Andrewes. 



6. Butterflies. By N. -Annandale and C. Dover. 



7. Moths. By C; Dover, 



S. Wasps and Bees. By C. Dover. 



9. Dipterous Insects. By C. Dover. 



10. Neuropteroid Insects. By C. Dover. 



11. Spiders and Scorpions. Bv F. H. Gravely. 



Introduction. 



By N. Annand.\i.e, D.Sc, F.A.S.B., Director, Zoological 

 Survey of India. 



I have recently published in the Memoirs of the Asiatic 

 Society of Bengal ' a paper entitled " Introduction to the study of 

 the Fauna of an Island in the Cliilka l/ake." From this paper I 

 purposely excluded all but casual references to the fauna, although, 

 as I explained, its main object was to prepare the way for an 

 account of the animal life. In these Records I propose to 

 issue, so far as circumstances permit, a report on the fauna of the 

 island. In so doing mj' intention is not to increase the number of 

 species known to science (though of course this must occur), 

 or even to make the taxonomic limits of those already known more 

 precise. The question I have striven, perhaps in vain, to answer, 

 is this : Wiiat animals are to be found in a small and some- 

 what isolated area with the physical characters and vegetation of 

 Barkuda Island and situated within the geographical liinits of 

 Peninsular India ? That the reply to this enquiry is far from 

 complete_ is due largely to the fact that our knowledge of the 

 Indian fauna is still in its infancy so far as manj- invertebrate 

 groups are concerned, and that the services of few specialists able 

 and willing to study the various elements in a fauna so unpromis- 

 ing from a taxonomic point of view are available in India or 

 elsewhere. To accomplish my task successfully it would have been 

 necessary to have had the help of a large staff of zoologists who 

 were at once good field-naturalists and good taxonomists. Some 

 say that no such persons exist. This the history of zoology in 

 India proves to be untrue ; but the number of zoologists whose 

 help I have been able to obtain has been small. 



' Mem. .Asiat. Soc. Bengal. VII, No, 4 (in the Press. 1 



