4 Indian Museum Notes. [Volt III. 



Dumber of groups were despatched to Europe on these terms, and, with 

 a few exceptions, the arrangement worked satisfactorily. 



In the end the Museum representatives of the following groups of 

 insects were more or less completely determined by the Entomologists 

 mentioned below : — 



Chrysomelidse, by the late Mr. Joseph Balj and Mr. Martin Jacoby. 



Melolontbini, by Herr Ernst Brenske. 



Pracbycera, by Mons. J. M. P. Bigot. 



Cbrysididge, by Mons. le Vicomte Robert du Buysson. 



Elateridae, by Dr. Caadeze. 



Cerambycidse, by Dr. Lameere. 



Curculionidse, by Mons. J. Desbrocbers des Loges. 



Epbemeridse, by Revd. A. E. Eaton. 



Cicindelidse, by Lord Dormer and Mons. Edmond Pleutiaux. 



Eumolpidse and Clytridae, by Mons. E. Lefevre. 



Stapbylinidse, by Mons. A. Eauvel. 



Malacodermidae, Endomychidse, etc., by the Revd. H. S. Gorhara, 



CncTijidse and Silphidse, by Mons. A. Gronville. 



Cefconini, by Mr. O. E. Janson. 



Buprestidse, by Mons. Kerremans. 



Histeridse, by Mr. George Lewis. 



Odonata, by Mons. le Baron de Selys Longchainps. 



Dynastini, by Mons. A. P. Nontted. 



Dytiscidae and Gyrinidse, by Dr. Eegimbart. 



Coprini, by Dr. D. Sharp. 



Saltatoria and Blattidse, by Dr. Henri de Saassure. 



Aculeata (except Formicidge), by Major Bingham and Dr. Henri de Saussure. 



Formicidse, by Mons, Forel, Mr. Wroughton, and Surgeon-Captain J. H. 



TuU Walsh. 

 Tachinpe, by Herr F. M. Van der Wulp. 

 lihynchota, by Mr. E. T. Atkinson, in collaboration with Mr. W. L. Distant, 



Mons. Bergroth, Mons. Fairmaire and others. 



In connection with the work of arranging the eolleetions an extensive 

 series of catalogues of the difTerent groups of Oriental Inseeta, to be pub- 

 lished by the Asiatic Society of Bengal in co-operation with the Indian 

 Museum, were initiated by Mr. E. T. Atkinson, who himself undertook 

 to list the Ehynchota and the Coleoptera. The undertaking unfortu- 

 nately fell through when Mr. Atkinson died, but his catalogues of the 

 families Cicindelidse, Carabidse, Dytiseidse, Gyrinidse, Paussidse, Hydro- 

 philidse, Silphidse, Corylophidse, Scydmsenidse, Pselaphidse, Stapbylinidse, 

 and Capsidse, which actually appeared in connection with the Journal of 

 the Asiatic Society, are a monument to his zeal and industry. Mons. 

 Bigot^s catalogue, again, of the Oriental species of Diptera, published in 

 the same series by the Asiatic Society, and Mr. Distant's monograph on 

 Oriental Cicadidce published by the Trustees of the Indian Museum, alike 



