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Notes on Some Rare and Interesting Insects added to the Indian 
Museum Collection during the Year 1905-06.—By ©. A. Paiva, 
ese? re i Indian Museum. With a prefatory 
te by N. ANNAND 
So little is known regarding the distribution of the Insects of 
India that exact records of carefully identified and labelled speci- 
mens are still important. No apology, therefore, need be made 
for communicating the present paper to the Asiatic Society of 
Bengal. It is within my knowledge that all the identifications 
have been made with the greatest care and that the localities and 
dates attached to the specimens are authentic. I should like, 
to do ; and these collections were not made in inaccessible parts 
of India, but in Calcutta andthe Darjiling and Purneah districts. 
is paper may therefore be said to illustrate our ignorance of 
Indian Entomology. It contains no identifications of species 
hitherto unnamed, not because Sg aes of new species did not 
occur in the collections on which it is based, but because such 
specimens have been referred for determination and description, 
whenever ear to ereere in Europe and America. I would 
enter a plea for the study of the distribution of the common 
Insects of tnd ia. he publication of those volumes of the 
“Fauna of India” series which have already appeared, has made 
this study possible, as regards several interesting groups, for the 
naturalist who has no very great expert knowledge but is prepared 
to deyote time and patience to the labelling and identification of 
his specimens. 
N. ANNANDALE, 
The following notes contain records of some rare and interest- 
ing specimens lately added to the collection of the Indian 
initia: ? 
Iam indebted to Dr. N. Annandale, Officiating Superin- 
tendent of the Indian Museum, who has read through the 
manuscript, for his numerous suggestions and corrections, 
