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ON THE COCCINELLIDÆ FROM INDIA 
IN THE COLLECTION OF 
M: H. E. ANDREWES OF THE INDIAN FOREST SERVICE, 
By The Rev. H.S. GorhamEF.2Z.s.etc. 
The following paper contains account of the species of Coccinel- 
lidæ in the collection of Indian Coloptera, formed by M. H. E. 
Andrewes of the Indian Forestry service, in the Madras Presi- 
dency. 
These insectswere collected by himself and by his friends MrT. 
R. D. Bell of Kanara, and M' C. Somers Smith both of the 
Indian Forest Service, in the districts of Madura in the South of 
the Madras Presidency and at Chamba and Dalhousie in the Hima- 
laya Mountains at an altitude of about 8000 feet. 
A good deal remains to be done before we shall be in a position to 
give any thing like a complete account of the Coleoptera of India, 
and their distribution in that vast peninsula, and the surrounding 
countries. The Museum at Calcutta contains a good series of the 
larger species of the present family, but I do not think much 
has been added to it recently. À great many species have lately been 
collected at Mandar by the jesuit missionary M. P. Cardon and 
these have been recorded by Herr Weise in the Annals of this 
Society for 1893, and some remarks will be found upon some of 
these submitted to me by M. G. Severin in the sequel to this paper. 
Indian beetles according to my experience generally come to 
England in a poor state of preservation. In the Coccinellidæ many 
species of which are of very small size, and of which the essential 
characters are very obscure, it is of the first importance that the 
examples should be well preserved and clean, and that they should 
be as fresh as possible. The collection sent me by Mr. Andrewes is 
remarkable for the care which he and his colleagues have bestowed 
upon it both in the mounting of the specimens and in their careful 
labelling. 
In answer to my request Mr Andrewes has furnished me with 
the following information, about the localities in which he and his 
friends have collected. 
« Belgaum and Kanara are two of the Southern divisions of the 
Bombay Presidency. The district of Belgaum, which is largely 
an agricultural one, lies at the Western extremity of the Deccan 
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