188 Papers on Rynchota and Lepidoptera. [Dec, 



2. Notes on Indian Rynchota, No. 1. — By E. F. T. Atkinson, B. A. 



(Abstract.) 



This paper is a synonomic list of all the species of stridulant Homop- 

 tera that have hitherto been described or reported from British India 

 and its Dependencies. It comprises 94 species distributed as follows 

 amongst the following genera : — Polyneura 1, Poecilopsaltria 1, Platy- 

 pleura 15 (3 new), Tosena 4, Huechys 7, Scieroptera 3, Graptotettix 1, 

 Gceana 6, Bundubia, 15, Gosmopsaltria 7, Leptopsaltria 1, Pomponia 7, 

 Emathia 1, Cicada 8, Gryptotympana 1, Fidicina 5, Tibicen 1, and 

 Mogannia 10 ; and numerous notes which, it is hoped, will prove useful 

 to Indian collectors. 



The paper will be published in Journal, Part II, for 1884. 



3. List of the Lepidopterous Insects collected by Mr. Wood-Mason in 



Cachar. Part 1. Heterocera. — By F. Moore, Associate Member, 

 Asiatic Society of Bengal. 



(Abstract.) 



This paper enumerates 89 species of moths belonging to the groups 

 Sphinges, Bombyces, Noctues, Geometres, Pyrales, Grambices, and Tineines. 

 Mr. Wood-Mason explained that he had collected these moths amongst 

 other groups of insects during his deputation to Cachar to enquire into 

 and report upon the ravages of the tea-bug and the tea-mite, in order to 

 test the plausible theory of many planters that the former of these pests 

 is disseminated by insect agency ; and, in reply to the President, stated 

 that the planters had mistaken the numerous red larvae (of Trombidium) 

 or reddish or yellow (Gamasi, etc.) acarine parasites of insects for the 

 red-mite, which does not live parasitically upon the bodies of other 

 animals at any stage of its existence, but, on the contrary, undergoes 

 its whole development and growth, from the egg to the adult state ? 

 on the tea plant. Lists of all the other orders of insects collected and 

 examined for the same purpose would be sent in due course to the Socie- 

 ty for publication in its journal. 



4. A description by the same author was also read of a new Lepidopterous 

 insect belonging to the Heterocerous genus Trabala, collected by Dr. 

 J. Anderson in Mergui. 



Mr. Moore, has given it the name of Trabala irrorata. The list of 

 species which accompanies this description will be published by Dr. 

 Anderson in a separate work on the Zoology of Mergui. 



The two papers also will be published in the Journal, Part II, for 



1884. 



