1840.] 



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33. — What genera and species of insects are used by the natives, in 

 necklaces and ornaments, &c. ? 

 31.— The habits of the large Stag Beetles. Do they destroy leaves ? 

 35. — Note all odorous smelling insects. 



36 —Are Beehives in use in India ? Send specimens of domestic Bees, 

 if they are domesticated. 



- 37._Is the Sherifah, or Custard- Apple seed, injurious to vermin ? 

 Flies are reported never to settle on the tree or its fruits. Ants will 

 attack bothv 



38 —From what quarters chiefly do clouds of Locusts come ? 



IX..— Memoir on the Mammalogy of the Himalayas.— By y^m. Ogilby, 

 Esq., M.A., Fellow of the Royal Astronomical., Geological.^ Linncean., 

 and Statistical Societies ; Secretary of the Zoological Society. 



In the early part of the year 1833, Professor Royle put into my hands 

 an extensive Collection of Zoological Specimens, made during his excur- 

 sions through the Western parts of the Himalayan Mountains, of which 

 the rich Botanical results are now in course of pubhcation, with a request 

 that I would furnish him with a Catalogue Raisonnce of the different 

 species of which it contained the spoils, to be added as an Appendix to 

 his work. Whilst occupied in this easy and unostentatious task, various 

 observations presented themselves, which induced me to propose to my 

 friend a slight alteration of his original plan, so as to embrace a general 

 outline of the Mammalogy of the Mountain Regions of Northern India, 

 for the purpose of exhibiting, at one view, the intimate relations which I 

 soon perceived to subsist between the animal productions of this elevated 

 and extensive mountain chain and those of Northern Europe, Asia, and 

 America. It soon became obvious, in fact, that the Zoology, like the 

 Botany of the Hills, differed essentially from that of the sultry plains of 

 India, which skirt their southern base ; that, though occasionally mixed 

 with tropical forms, it was, upon the whole, of a character closely re- 

 sembling that of the more temperate and northern latitudes ; and that 

 the insulated position of these remarkable mountains, exhibiting, as they 

 do, the rare and interesting phenomenon of a temperate and even a boreal 

 climate on the very confines of the tropic, where the summer heat is ne- 

 cessarily greater than even under the equator itself, gave an importance 

 to the inquir}', as connected with the geographical distribution of Ani- 

 mal Life, which promised the most important results. The nature of the 



