NOTICE. 



The serial Indian Museum Notes ^ issued by the Trustees of the 

 Indian 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. 

 For the views expressed, the authors of the respective notes are alone 

 responsible. 



The parts of the serial are 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 insects to which reference is made. 

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

 spirit ; 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 im- 

 mature 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 this is not pos- 

 sible, 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 sliould, in all cases, be accom- 

 panied by a detailed report showing precisely in what their economic 

 importance is believed to consist, 



Calcutta: 

 6th April i8g6. 



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