CONTENTS 



OB THE NATURAL HISTORY PART (PT. 11.) OF THE 



JOURNAL OF THE ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL FOR 1884. 



No. 1, (issued June 30th, 1884). The Theory of the Winter Bains 

 of Northern India.— By Henry F. Blanford, F. R. S., President, Asia- 

 tic Society of Bengal, Meteorological Reporter to the Government of India, 

 Descriptions of some new Asiatic Diurnal Lepidoptera ; chiefly from 

 specimens contained in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. — By Frederic 

 MooRE, F. Z. S., A. L. S. Communicated by the Natural History 

 Secretary. 



No." 2, (issued September 17th, 1884). Account of the South-West 

 Monsoon Storms of the 26th June to 4ith July and of 10th to 15th 

 November 1883. — By John Eliot, M. A., Meteorological Reporter to the 

 Government of Bengal (With Pis. II — X). 



No. 3, (issued April 22nd 1885). Some Rough Notes for the Cons- 

 truction of a Chapter in the History of the Earth. — By R. D. Oldham 

 A. R. S. M., Assistant Superintendent, Geological Survey of India. A new 

 Species of Simulium from Assam. — By Dr. Edward Becher, Vienna. 

 Communicated and translated by the Natural History Secretary (With 

 Plate XIV). Variations of Rainfall in Northern India during the Sun- 

 spots Period. — By A. N. Pearson, Esq., Officiating Meteorological Re- 

 porter for Western India. Communicated by the President (With Plate 

 XI) . Description of a neiv Lepidopterous Insect belonging to the Hete- 

 rocerous Genus Trabala. — By F. Moore, F. Z. S., A. L. S. Commu- 

 nicated by the Natural History Secretary. Phyllotheljs, a remarkable 

 Genus of Mantodea from, the Oriental Region. — By J. Wood-Mason 

 Deputy Superintendent, Indian Museum, Calcutta (With Plate XII), 

 Notes on Indian Rhynchota, No. 1. — By E. T. Atkinson, B. A. List of 

 the Lepidopterous Insects collected in Cachar by Mr. J. Wood-Mason 

 Part I,— Heterocera.— J52/ F. Moore, F. Z. S., A. L. S. Communica- 

 ted by the Natural History Secretary. Revised Synopsis of the Species 

 of Choeradodis, a remarkable Genus of Mantodea common to India and 

 Tropical America. — By J. Wood-Mason, Officiating Superintendent In- 

 dian Museum and Professor of Comparative Anatomy 8f Zoology Medical 

 College, Calcutta (With 15 Woodcuts). 



