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 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 Ihth 

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

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



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

 struction 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 

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

 •nicated and translated by the Natural History Secretary (With 

 eiatc XL V .). Variations of Bainfall in Northern India during the Sun- 

 spot Period.— By ^. N. Pearson, Esq., Officiating Meteorological Be- 

 P^ . /'.■ T'i >.' i'.v ■ Communicated by ^Ae President (With Plate 

 XI.) ^v - ■>1 a .... wj Zyidopterous Insect belonging to the Hete- 



rocerous Genu. VvAinM.—By F. Moo-re, F. Z. S., A. L. S. Commu- 

 nicated by the Natural. History Secretary. Phyllothelj^s, a remarkable 

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

 Deputy Superintendent, Indiarj 21 hf--^-.)., Calcutta (With Plate XII) 

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

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

 Part I,— Heterocera.— % 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 ^^ Zoology Medical 

 College, Calcutta (With 15 Woodcuts). 





