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Entomological Notes from the Indian Museum.— Volume I1of the inter- — 
esting Indian Museum Notes, to which we have occasionally referred in 
these pages, has just reached us through the courtesy of Mr. E. C. 
Cotes and the Indian Museum trustees. It consists of four parts: 
Part 1, devoted to Miscellaneous Notes; part 2, to the Wild Silk Insects 
of India; part 3, to the White Insect Wax of India; and part 4, to the 
Locusts of Bengal, Madras, Assam, and Bombay. The volume, as a 
whole, is so important that it deserves a more extended notice than we 
can give it. The illustrations are handsome lithographic plates, part 2 
carrying no less than fifteen of these plates, figuring twenty-nine spe- 
cies of the large silk moths. Part 1, upon Miscellaneous Notes, con- 
tains more matter of interest to entomologists in this country, a number 
of cosmopolitan pests being mentioned. Among them are the Angou- 
mois Grain Moth (Gelechia cerealella,) the Sugar-cane Borer (Diatrea 
saccharalis), the Corn Worm or Boll Worm (Heliothis armigera)—here 
recorded as feeding upon the fruit of the Cape Gooseberry—and the 
so-called American Blight (Schizoneura lanigera). Several new species 
of scale-insects are described by Mr. Maskell, and a new Tineid (Gra- 
cilaria theivora), which mines the leaves of the Tea Tree, is described by 
Lord Walsingham. Part 3 is interesting a8 giving some definite in- 
formation upon some white wax producers. Ceroplastes ceriferus is 
reported as rare in India, w hile the Fulgorid which produces an abun- 
dant supply of white sugary wax, is determined as Phromnia marginella. 
The trustees of the museum deserve every credit for their enterprise in 
publishing these valuable notes, which are of great interest to us 
and to entomologists allover the world, aside from their great value to 
the country from which they emanate. 
Since the above was written we have received Part 5 of Vol. II, in 
which the principal article is by Mr. W. L. Sclater on ‘‘The Economic 
Importance of Birds in India.” There are short articles on the meth-— 
ods of destroying locusts in Tunis, on the gas treatment for scale- 
insects (reprinted from Mr. Coquillett’s report in Bulletin 23 of the 
Division of Entomology), on Paris green as an insecticide (from Miss 
Ormerod’s leaflet of February, 1891), and on insecticide washes against 
Date Palm Seale, reprinted from [IvsEcT LIFE (Vol. 111, p. 441). 
Two new Bulletins of the Division of Entomology.—Since the publication 
of the last number of INSECT LIFE, Bulletins No. 26 and 27 of the 
division have been issued from the press. No. 26 contains reports of 
observations and experiments in the practical work of the division for 
the season of 1891, and is comparable to Bulletins Nos. 21 and 23, which 
cover, respectively, the seasons of 1889 and 1890. Bulletin No. 27 con- 
tains reports of the damage by destructive locusts. during the season 
of 1891, giving full accounts of a trip through the Northwest by Mr. 
Bruner, a journey through California by Mr. Coquillett, and a trip to 
Kansas by Prof. Osborn. 
