NOTICE. 



THE serial Indian Museum Notes, issued by the Trustees of the In- 

 dian Museum, Calcutta, under the authority of the Government 

 of India, Revenue and Agricultural Department, is to take the place 

 of Notes on Economic Entomology, of which two numbers have appeared. 



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

 materials accumulate. Communications are invited ,• they should be 

 addressed to — 



1 The Editor, 



Indian Museum Notes, 



Calcutta. 



Correspondence connected with Economic Entomology should be 

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

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

 chrysalids and cocoons, alive, and packed lightly 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 speci- 

 mens cannot be made. 



The papers in the first number of Indian Museum Notes deal 

 with Indian insect pests, and are based on material which has been 

 sent to the Museum by the Revenue and Agricultural Department 

 of the Government of India, by the Departments of Agriculture attached 

 to the various Local Governments, by the Forest Department, and also 

 by many private individuals in different parts of India. For the views 

 expressed the authors of the respective notes are alone responsible. 



The EDITOR. 



Indian Museum, 

 April 1889. 



