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with an equal period of development for the individual beetles. It has been 

 observed that many species do occur in enormous numbers together here in 

 India though we cannot, off-hand, remember their names. We remember, 

 however, to have seen hundreds and hundreds of perfect insects of Cissites 

 dehyi of all sizes crawling about the ground in Khandesh in the year 1902 — 

 all in one place, in the month of April. 



Estigmena chinejisi.^ (pf-ge 254) is also found in Bombay where it is 

 extremely common in the bamboo jungles, attacking, as mentioned, JDendro- 

 calamus strictus. The bamboo is, however, so plentiful that its depredations 

 are of little consequence. Its habits are as stated by Mr. Stebbing. The 

 genus Crioceris affects Lilies to a great extent ; Cryptocephalus eats the 

 leaves of many different trees. The larvse are soft grubs and the latter lives 

 in hard, spherical or ovoid cocoons while the former covers itself with a 

 soft covering of its own excreta. There is a Haltica (page 261) that is very 

 common in Bombay in the hills in forest country ; it frequents hot nalla- 

 beds and feeds on the leaves of Hrmiojioia ri2xcria and Saliv ichnostachya. It 

 is sometimes found in such numbers that the underside of every leaf of the 

 thickets of bushes in spaces of 100 sq. yards is absolutely covered with them. 

 The species is known but, in the absence of notes, cannot be given here. 

 Aspidoviorpha sanctfBcrucis, like others of the genus, will be found on all Con- 

 volvulacece, on the underside of the leaves on which the larvse feed. These 

 larvoe are of the ordinary form, with processes, and an upturned, fan-shaped 

 brush of excreta shading the back. Sthenias grisator (page 377) attacks the 

 branches of CMoroaylom/ swietenia, the Satinwood tree, in Bombay, ringing 

 them as described, so that they fall to the earth ; branches of nearly an inch 

 in diameter are thus killed and much damage done to young stool-shoots. 

 Larinus ? sp. (page 411). This is probably the same beetle as the one 

 described, by Dr. Heller of the Dresden Museum in the year 1902, from 

 larvse and beetles procured in Khandesh. The name is again wanting in 

 the absence of notes. Cyrtotrachelus (page 440). There is a species of this 

 occurring commonly in the south of Bombay which is probably the same as 

 longipes that attacks bamboos ; also another one, black in colour. 



Now we come to the piece de resistence of the book — chapters XX and 

 XXI, treating of the family Scolytidce. These chapters are really good and 

 nearly altogether original : descriptions, life-histories, parasites and all. 

 And Mr. Stebbing is to be particularly congratulated u^^on having brought 

 the study of so many species of small insects of all but exclusively forest 

 importance to so advanced a stage. He enumerates 76 species — some of 

 them, it is true, not complete as to identification or description, but these 

 are in the large minority — of which he has discovered and described no less 

 than 44 himself. The treatment of this family alone justifies the publica- 

 tion of his work in the present form and affords ample evidence that he 

 made good use of the time he was able to devote to entomology in India. 



There are two misprints in the book ; one on page 16, liue 7 from the 

 bottom where JBistna is a, mistake iov Biston ; the other on page 18 where 

 manyifevce should read manyifera in the second line. 



