MAY 22 1897 



NOTICE. 



rriHE serial Indian Museum Notes is issued by the Trustees of the 

 -L Indian Museum, Calcutta, under the authority of the Government 

 of India; Revenue and Agricultural Department. It is chiefly intended to 

 record information on the subject of the Economic Entomolog-y of India, 

 and thus gradually to furnish materials upon which to base a comprehen- 

 sive knowledge of this important subject, which has hitherto been but 

 little studied. For the views expressed the authors of the respective notes 

 are alone responsible. 



The parts of the serial will be published from time to time as 

 materials accumulate. Communications are invited; they should be 

 written on one side only of the paper and addressed to— 



The Editor, 



Indian Museum Notes, 



Calcutta. 



Correspondence connected with Economic Entomology should be 

 accompanied by specimens of the injects to which reference is made. 

 Caterpillars, grubs, and other soft-bodied insects can be sent in alcohol ; 

 chrysalids and cocoons, alive, and packed lig'htly in leaves or grass ; other 

 insects, dried and pinned or wrapped in soft paper. Live insects should be 

 sent when there is a reasonable probability of their surviving the journey. 

 Caterpillars, grubs, and other immature insects can often be only 

 approximately determined; they should therefore, where possible, be 

 accompanied by specimens of the mature insects into which they 

 transform ; when, however, this is not possible, they should still be sent, 

 as they can always be determined approximately, and uncertainty must 

 necessarily arise in discussing insects when actual reference to the 

 specimens cannot be made. 



Insects forwarded for determination should in all cases be accom- 

 panied by a detailed report showing precisely in what their Economic 

 importance consists. 



The editor. 



Indian Museum, 

 19 Ih March 1891. 



