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Indian Museum Notes : Vol. i, No. 1. Notes on Indian Insect Pests. ' 

 Issued by the Ti-ustees. Calcutta : 1889. 8t-o, pp. 1 — 76, pi. i — iv. 



This is a serial publication, to he continued from time to time as materials 

 a'?cumulate, issued by the Trustees of the Indian Museum, Calcutta, under the 

 authority of the G-overnment of India, Revenue and Agricultural Department, and 

 to which communications are invited. The purpose of the publication is to aid 

 cultivators of trees, plants, and agriculturists generally, in subduing the insects that, 

 to an immense extent, are detrimental to all vegetable produce in India, by giving 

 reliable information on the nature and habits of the foes, this being the only efficient 

 means of combating their ravages. The work is planned much on the same lines as 

 " Insect Life," published by the American Department of Agriculture, and like it 

 cannot fail to have a beneficial effect. Tliis No. contains 7 articles on Rhyncliota, by 

 E. T. .Atkinson; 2 on Lepldoptera, by L. de Niceville ; and 15 on Insects generally, 

 by E. C. Cotes. The figures on the plates are rendered with exquisite delicacy by 

 photo-etching from original drawings. 



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Dr. Franz Low died placidly at Vienna on 22nd November last, after a long 

 and painful illness, in the 61st year of his age, as we learn from his brother 

 Herr Paul Low. 



Hagen's " Bibliotheca Entomologica " enumerates six papers by Dr. Low on 

 diverse entomological subjects, published prior to 1862. After this date he appears 

 to have given his attention for many years chiefly to the Homopterous Family 

 Psyllidce, and he acquired such a complete knowledge of all the palsearctic forms 

 that he was enabled not only to rectify the synonymy of the described species and 

 to add many new ones but also to group the whole in accordance with their minute 

 anatomical characters, especially with reference to the genitalia. The results of his 

 studies have been published from time to time, mostly in the " Verhandlungen der 

 k. k. Zool.-botan., Gresellschaft in Wien," and in the " Entomologische Zeitung," 

 vols, i and ii, during 18S2 and 1883, when he was one of the editors of that journal. 

 These were illustrated with plates containing excellent figures of the new species by 

 his brother Herr Paul Low. Single papers by him on PsyllidcB have also appeared 

 elsewhere ; there is one entitled " Diagnoses of three new species of Trioza," in 

 vol. xiv of this Magazine (1877). To the " Entomol. Zeitung" he also contributed 

 some papers on Coccidce, viz., in vol. i, On the Natural History of Acanthococcus 

 aceris, Sign. ; On two species living on conifers, Aspidiotus ahietis, Schrank, and 

 Leucaspis pint, Hartig. In vol. ii. On a new conifer-Coccid, Levcaspis ptisilla, Low, 

 on the dimorphism of the males of Chionaspis salicis, Linn., Gosayparia ulmi, Fab., 



