CONTENTS . 



OF THE NATURAL HISTORY PART (PT. II.) 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 Museutn, Calcutta, — By Frederic 

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

 Secretary. 



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

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

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

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



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

 truction of a Chapter m 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 Bainfall in Northern India during the Sun- 

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

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

 XI). Description of a new 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.— ^2/ F. Moore, F. Z. S., A. L. S. Communica- 

 ted by the Natural History Secretary. Bevised 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). 



