2 E. T. Atkinson — Catalogue of the Cieindelidte. [No. 1, 
Both these works are confined to the insects of India, Burma, and 
Ceylon, and a supplement will have to be added to complete them for 
the Oriental Region. I have finished the Homopterous section of the 
Rliynchota, and the Hemipterous portion is passing through the press. 
This, too, deals with the Indian region only, and will have to be added 
to, by giving a list of the species found elsewhere in the Oriental Region. 
Mr. Wood-Mason has also, in the press a valuable catalogue of the 
Mantodea. By the ‘ Oriental Region ’ is understood the tract defined 
by Wallace* under that name, but for various reasons I have made the 
course of the river Tangtse, the northern boundary in China. I 
exclude the Chinese Provinces of Honan and Shantung, f all Chinese 
Turkistan, and the Alai range, J Persia and Afghanistan. On the south, 
a line is drawn to the south of Mindanao, along the southern coast of 
Borneo to Java, where Bali alone is included. Celebes, Lombok, and all 
the islands to the south are excluded. The Asiatic Society has been 
good enough to support this scheme for the cataloguing of our collec- 
tions, or rather what they ought to contain, and I trust that we may 
be able to enlist workers to complete this necessary equipment of all 
real entomological work in India. When the collections of our Indian 
Museum are correctly named, it will be possible, with the aid of these 
catalogues, to give substantial assistance to all interested in the inves- 
tigation of our rich Fauna, and when it is considered that only the 
surface of the Insect Fauna of India has been examined, it may safely 
be said that much that is new remains for workers in this field. I think 
that I am authorised to say that every facility will be afforded to 
students and collectors by the staff of our Indian Museum for naming 
their collections, and that it rests with voluntary workers to make our 
collection what it ought to be, the first in the world in species connected 
with the Oriental Region. The species identified, and in the Indian 
Museum, are shown in angular brackets, with the precise locality. The 
locality {Hah.) first given is the one generally quoted and given in the 
books referred to. References to manuscript and mere catalogue names 
have been omitted. In verifying the references, I have been able to cor- 
rect some errors of omission and commission, and to give the actual dates 
for nearly every description of a species, and for every genus quoted, 
a matter in which previous catalogues have not always been careful, 
and one which I consider to be essential for the full study of a group. 
* Geographical Distribution of Animals, i, 1876, p. 314. 
t A few from Kiangsi are noticed as there is reason to believe that they occur 
further south. 
t A few from the Pamir, from Stoliczlca’s collection, are noticed, though not be- 
longing to the Oriental Region, the types being in the Indian Museum. 
