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INDIAN INSECT LIFE. 



BY H.iMAXWELL LEFROY, M.A., F.E.S., F.Z.S., 

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This volume is the first 

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 number of species, refer- 

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In the Introduction, and in "Interludes" at appropriate places, general 

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 "Where Insects Live," "Cosmopolitan Insects," " How Insects Protect Them- 

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 by F. M. Hewlett, Second Imperial Entomologist. 



The book is invaluable alike to the specialist, to the entomologist in India 

 and to the amateur who is interested in the abundant insect world around him. 



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