No. 1.] E. P. Stebbing—On the Bostrichidas of the Indian Region. 15 



7. The Moths of British India in the Fauna series by Sir 



G. Hampson, Bart., volumes I -IV, 1892 — 96. 



8. The Hymenoptera Aculeata of British India in the Fauna series 



by Colonel C. T. Bingham, 2 volumes (1897 an( ^ I 9°3 I « 



9. Rhynchota (Heteroptera) in the Fauna series, by Mr. W. L. 



Distant, 1 volume (1902). 

 No mention is made in the volumes of the Fauna series as to 

 whether the species described are present in the Indian Museum 

 collections or not. 



10. A volume on the Longicornia is in preparation by Mr. 



C. J. Gahan of the British Museum and Colonel C. T. 



Bingham has taken in hand the Lepidoptera Rhopalo- 



cera — both for the Fauna series. 

 In addition to the above, papers on new species are of almost 

 monthly appearance in one or other of the numerous scientific serials 

 and magazines which record such. These cannot be listed here and 

 few will be obtainable by the ordinary student in the country. I may 

 mention, however, the continuation of the Fauna series (Moths) in 

 the Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society which has also 

 had some papers on Indian Hymenoptera and Rhopalocera, and the 

 excellent papers on the Coccidae of the Indian Region by Mr. Ernest 

 Green in Indian Museum Notes. 



It thus becomes evident that a vast amount of work in this direc- 

 tion remains to be undertaken. In these papers an attempt will be 

 made to add something to what has already been so successfully 

 commenced. It is not proposed to limit their scope to any one 

 order, although it is probable that that much neglected one, the 

 Coleoptera, will receive considerable attention. In the case of every 

 insect mentioned, a reference will be made as to whether it is or is 

 not represented in the Indian Museum. If it is not, every effort will 

 be made to procure specimens of it for the collections. The papers 

 are written with the intention of cataloguing the insects of the Indian 

 Region, but short references will be given as to distribution, habits 

 etc., of the insects noticed. 



On the Bostrichidas of the Indian Region, Part I. 

 Until comparatively recently the family Bostrichidas had been 

 little studied. It was reserved for Mr. P. Lesne, of the Paris Natural 

 History Museum, to take up and monograph this difficult but im- 

 portant group in his classical Revision des Coleopteres de la fatnille 

 des Bostrychides.* I have made use of this excellent memoir, or of 

 the portions of it at present published, in revising the nomenclature of 



*An. Soc. Ent. Fr. Vols. LXV, LXVI, LXVII, LXIX~ 



