14 Indian Museum Notes, [Vol. VI. 



5.— INSECTA INDICA I. 



COLEOPTERA 1. Notes on the Bostrichid.-e of the Indian 



Region, Part I. 



By the Editor. 



With the exception of the Lepidoptera and Rhynchota, a portion 

 of the Hymmoptera and a family of the Orthoptera (the Mantodea), 

 but little work has up to the present been undertaken in the direction 

 of cataloguing or monographing the Insecta of the Indian Region. It 

 is, therefore, extremely difficult. for workers in the country to find out 

 what is known about a family they may be interested in and equally 

 so to discover (without going to the collections themselves which is 

 generally impossible) to what extent that family is represented by 

 specimens in the Indian Museum at Calcutta. 



The work already accomplished on these lines may be roughly 

 summarised. It consists of — 



1. A series of papers on the Rhynchota of the Indian Region by 



the late Mr. E. T. Atkinson, I.C.S., read before the Asiatic 

 Society and afterwards published in Part II of volumes LIU 

 to LVII of the Journal. Species represented in the Indian 

 Museum collections are noted. 



2. Moore's Lepidoptera of Ceylon, 1880 to 1886. 



3. A catalogue of the moths of India by E. C. Cotes, and Colonel 



Swinhoe commenced in 1887, completed in 1889. Pub- 

 lished by the Trustees of the Indian Museum. Species 

 in the Indian Museum collections are noted. 



4. Catalogue of the Mantodea by Mr. J. Wood-Mason, Superin- 



tendent, Indian Museum. Two parts, 1889 and 1891. 

 Published by the Trustees of the Indian Museum. Species 

 in the Indian Museum collections are noted. 



5. Butterflies of India by L. de Niceville (3 volumes, 1882-1890). 



A fourth volume is complete in manuscript.* No notes have 

 been made as to whether the species enumerated are 

 represented in the Indian Museum collections, but as the 

 Trustees of the Museum purchased the whole of Mr. de 

 Nicevelle's valuable collection, it is probable that most of 

 the species referred to are in the collections. 



6. Moore's Lepidoptera Indica; commenced in 1891 — 64 Parts 



issued. 



* This MS. has been purchased by the Truste3s of the Indian Museum 

 and sent to Colonel C. T. Bingham for incorporation in the Fauna volumes on 

 the Rhopalocera. 



