PREFACE. 



"I17ITH this number the Indian Museum Notes commence a sixth 

 *■ volume, a volume which the Editor trusts will find that ready 

 support which has been so pleasing a feature and has proved so 

 effective in the past, both in the Economic and Scientific branches 

 of the subject. That such help has been abundantly forthcoming the 

 five volumes already issued bear witness to, and our sincere thanks 

 are due to all those whose active help and sympathy made their 

 compilation possible. 



In the future we look forward to a still greater progress. With 

 Scientific Entomologists at work in the country many new species are 

 likely to be discovered, entailing a large amount of descriptive work; 

 many new life-histories will be worked out and new remedies for 

 combating serious attacks devised ; the relations and the work of 

 parasitic insects, the introduction of pests from abroad and the 

 spread of pests within the limits of the Continent will all receive 

 attention, and records of the enquiries made will doubtless find 

 their way into the Notes. 



The Offg. Superintendent, who has edited the present number, 

 has under preparation a conspectus giving a list of the insects and 

 summarizing the whole of the information which has appeared about 

 them in the previous five volumes. He trusts to be able to issue 

 this conspectus in the present volume and believes it will be found as 

 useful to those who make use of the Notes for working purposes as 

 he has found it himself. 



E. P. STEBBING, I.F.S., 



Offg. Superintendent , Nat, Hist. Section, 



Indian Museum. 

 October 1903. 



