AUTHORITIES CONSULTED. 



IN the preparation of this small book I have to acknowledge my 

 indebtedness to the works of the following Authorities : The Volumes 

 of the Fauna of British India (Binyham's Hymenoptera and Butter- 

 flies and Distant's Rhynchota) ; The Indian Museum Notes and Journal 

 of the Bombay Natural History Society ; H. M. Lefroy's Insect 

 Pests ; Sharp's Volumes on Insects in the Cambridge Natural 

 History Series ; Packard's Guide to the Study of Insects and Entomol- 

 ogy for Beginners and Ritz Boz's Agricultural Zoology. 



For some of the figures made use of in the text my acknowledg- 

 ments are also due. 



The figures on pp. 35, 6, 8, 9, 18, 2224, 49i 9, II2 I J 3 

 147 first appeared in my papers on Insect Life in the Journal of the 

 Bombay Natural History Society. The mosquito figures on p. 2 are 

 from the photographs by Col. Giles, I.M.S., which appeared in F. V. 

 Theobald's Monogtafh on the Culicidic. The figures at top of page 6, 

 on pp. 38, 135, are from the Fauna of British India. Those on 

 pp. 1 6, 29, 30, 32, ico are after Indian Museitm Notes. Those on 

 pp. 56, 123 from Lefroy's Insect Pests. On pp. 79, 80, 118 from 

 Sharp's Insects in Cambridge Natural History. At bottom of p. 70 

 and on p. 115 from Packard's Guide to the Study of Insects. And on. 

 pp. 98 and 99 from J. R. Boz's Agricultural Zoology. 



