996 I'EOCEEDINGS OF THE THIRD ENTOMOLOGICAL MEETING 



means of a double cremaster ; there is occasionally a very slight cocoon 

 but generally the pupa is freely exposed. 



Literature. The literature on this group is very scattered but the 

 following list contains the principal papers requisite for its study : — 



Key to Genera. 



1. Wings not fissured ....... 2 



Wings fissured ........ 3 



2. Termen of f. w. not falcate ; f . w. 8 and 9 separate . Agdistis. 

 Termen of f. w. strongly fulcate ; f. w. 8 and 9 stalked . Steganodnctyla. 



17. F. w. with 10 out of 7 . . . . . . Pselnopliorus. 



F. w. with 10 separate ■ . . . . . . Pterophorus. 



CosMOCLOSris, Meyr. (1886). 



Coswjoc/osii's, Meyr. T. E. S. 1886. 7(') .... Type ; aglaodesma, 



Mey. 



vglaodesma, Meyr., T. E. S. 1886. 12('), B. J. XVII. 134 (1906)(°-) Ceylon (dry low 



Fletcher, Spol. Zeylan. VI 32 (1909) [Diacrotrichi](') ; country)('). 



Meyr., Gen. Ins. Pteroph. p. 4, tab. f. 1 (1910) [Diacro- Puttalaiiv( «) 



1richa'](^) Solomon 



Isds(^) E. 

 Australia. (1) 



To conclude, I consider that it is highly desirable and within the 

 bounds of practicability to prepare such a general catalogue in order 

 to gather together the results of past work and to form a foundation 

 for future work ; that its preparation should be a matter for combined 

 action of the various Institutes interested in Entomology in India ; 

 and that, if these various Institutes are prepared to combine in this 

 matter, such a catalogue should be prepared and edited by an inter- 

 departmental committee and published by Government. 



With regard to this matter of the preparation of a catalogue, I have 

 written to various specialists in different groups and have received 

 replies from nearly all of them promising help in their special groups. 

 Mr. Bagnall, for example, writes that he is willing to undertake the 

 Thysanoptera, Dr. Cameron the Staphylinidee, Dr. Gravely the Passa- 

 iidae, and so on. Mr. Prout wi-ites as follows : — 



" There is certainly a demand for an up-to-date catalogue of Indian 

 Insects and I should like to collaborate so far as limited time and oppor- 

 tunity may render possible. I could at any rate do the sub-families 



