CONTENTS 



OF THE NATURAL HISTORY PART (PT. II,) OF THE 



JOURNAL OF THE ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL FOB 1884. 



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

 of Northern India. — Bij 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 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 Rough Notes for the Cons- 

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

 A. R. S. M., Assistant Supermtendent, Geological Survey of India. Anew 

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

 Communicated and translated hy the Natural History Secretary (With 

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

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

 porter for Western India. Communicated hy 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 hy the Natural History Secretary. Phyllotheljs, a remarkable 

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

 Deputy Sv^perintendent, 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 hy Mr. J. Wood-Mason 

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

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

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

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

 dian Museum and Professor of Comparative Anatomy ^' Zoology »^ Medical 

 College, Calcutta (With 15 Woodcuts). 



