FEB 8 1900 



CONTENTS. 



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I. Original Communication — 



(i) Diagnoses Melolonthidarum novarum ex India Orientaliiby 



Herr Ernst Brenske . . , , . , ,176 



2. Notes on insect-pests from the Entomological Section, Indian 

 Museum : by E. Barlow, Assistant in charge of Entomology : — 



(i) Tea Pests • . ... .180 



(ii) Insects destructive to cereals and crops ; (i). Wheat and Paddy 

 pests, etc. ; (2) Cotton pests ; (3) Poppy pests; (4) Indigo 

 pests ; (5) Insects infesting vegetable plants j ( 6 ) Sugar-cane 

 pest ; (7) Locusts .... 



(iii) Insects. infesting fruit trees ... 

 (iv) Forest pests . . . . • 



(v) Determination of some insect-pests, etc. 

 (vi) Some beneficial insects in India , 



(vii) Reports of results of remedies, etc., tried during the year 1897 



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3, Reprint — 



(i) The Horse Bot-flies. Extracts from a Report by H. Osborn. 

 Reprinted from Bull. No. 5, United States Department of 

 Agriculture, Division of Entomology, 1896 • . • 222 



