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Entomological Notes from the Indian Museum. — Volume II of the inter- 

 esting Indian Museum Notes, to which we have occasionally referred in 

 these pages, has just reached us through the courtesy of Mr. E. C 

 Cotes and the Indian Museum trustees. It consists of four parts: 

 Part 1, devoted to Miscellaneous Notes; part 2, to the Wild Silk Insects 

 of India; part 3, to the White Insect Wax of India; and part 4, to the 

 Locusts of Bengal, Madras, Assam, and Bombay. The volume, as a 

 whole, is so important that it deserves a more extended notice than we 

 can give it. The illustrations are handsome lithographic plates, part 2 

 carrying no less than fifteen of these plates, figuring twenty-nine spe- 

 cies of the large silk moths. Part 1, upon Miscellaneous Notes, con- 

 tains more matter of interest to entomologists in this country, a number 

 of cosmopolitan pests being mentioned. Among them are the Angou- 

 mois Grain Moth {Gelechia cerealella,) the Sugar-cane Borer {Diatrcea 

 soccharalis), the Corn Worm or Boll Worm {Heliothis armigera) — here 

 recorded as feeding upon the fruit of the Cape Gooseberry — and the 

 so-called American Blight {ScMzoneura lanigera). Several new species 

 of scale-insects are described by Mr. Maskell, and a new Tineid {Gra- 

 eilaria theivora), which mines the leaves of the Tea Tree, is described by 

 Lord Walsingham. Part 3 is interesting as giving some definite in- 

 formation upon some white wax producers. Ceroplasten ceriferus is 

 reported as rare in India, while the Fulgorid which produces an abun- 

 dant sui)ply of white sugary wax, is determined as Phromnia marginella. 

 The trustees of the museum deserve every credit for their enterprise in 

 publishing these valuable notes, which are of great interest to us 

 and to entomologists all over the world, aside from their great value to 

 the country from which they emanate. 



Since the above was written we have received Part 5 of Vol. ii, in 

 which the principal article is by Mr. W. L. Sclater on "The Economic 

 Importance of Birds in India." There are short articles on the meth- 

 ods of destroying locusts in Tunis, on the gas treatment for scale- 

 insects (reprinted from Mr. Coquillett's report in Bulletin 23 of the 

 Division of Entomology), on Paris green as an insecticide (from Miss 

 Ormerod's leaflet of February, 1891), and on insecticide washes against 

 Date Palm Scale, reprinted from Insect Life (Vol. iii, p. 441). 



T-wo navy Bulletins of the Division of Entomology. — Since the publication 

 of the last number of Insect Life, Bulletins No. 20 and 27 of the 

 division have been issued from the press. No. 20 contains reports of 

 observations and experiments in the practical work of the division for 

 the season of 1891, and is comparable to Bulletins Nos. 21 and 23, which 

 cover, respectively, the seasons of 1889 and 1890. Bulletin No. 27 con- 

 tains reports of the damage by destructive locusts during the season 

 of 1891, giving fall accounts of a trip through the Northwest by Mr. 

 Bruner, a journey through California by Mr. Coquillett, and a trip to 

 Kansas by Prof. Osborn. 



