12 Ins. 
INSECTA. 
W. T. Blanford (Rep. Brit. Ass. li. p. 678), gives the following 
approximate estimate of the known Arthropoda of British India : — 
Insecta 
Coleoptera 
Ilymenoptera 
Lepidoptera 
Dip ter a 
Rliynchota 
Neuroptera 
Orthoptera 
Myriopoda 
Arachnida 
Crustacea 
4780 
850 
4620 
500 (?) 
650 
350 
350 (?) 
12,100 
50 (P) 
120 
100 (?) 270 
12,370 
List of Ilymenoptera (3), Lepidoptera Ileterocera (3), Diptera (6), 
Coleoptera (2) Neuroptera (1), and Arachnida (1), collected by the How- 
gate Polar Expedition in 1878 ; Scudder & others, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. 
xv. [1879] pp. 159-161. 
Unusually late appearance of Insects in Canada in the autumn of 1882 ; 
Fletcher, Canad. Ent. xiv. p. 218. 
Notes on Insects of various Orders observed in Ontario in 1881 ; Har- 
rington & Moffat, Canad. Ent. xiv. pp. 7-9, 57 & 58 ; Rep. E. Soc. Ont. 
1881, pp. 25 & 26. 
Abundance of Insects in New Jersey in 1880 (a very dry year) ; Lock- 
wood & Riley, Am. Nat. xvi. p. 745. 
Tropical Notes from Central America ; Champion, Ent. M. M. xviii. 
p. 214. 
Entomological notes (chiefly relating to Orthoptera ), from Porto 
Allegre, Rio Grande, Brazil ; Ent. Nachr. viii. pp. 156-162. 
Character of the Entomological Fauna of New Zealand ; Kosmos, xi. 
p. 289. 
Economic Entomology. 
Miss Ormerod’s Manual noticed ; Card. Chron. (2) xvi. p. 152 ; J. Sci. 
(3) iv. pp. 208-214; Rep. E. Soc. Ont. 1881, pp. 35 & 36, woodcuts. 
Notes on edible Insects; Failla-Tedaldi, Nat. Sicil. i. pp. 232-240. 
Short notes on applied Entomology ; Bull. Ent. Ital. xiv. pp. 207 & 
208,402-406. 
Various notes relative to Phylloxera , Nematus rihesii , Anthomyia betce t 
Crioceris asparagiy wasps, ants, and other injurious insects, and the best 
means of destroying them are scattered through Gard. Chron. 
Undetermined larva destructive to hop ; Dodge, Canad. Ent. xiv. 
pp. 93-96. 
Injurious Insects observed in Russia in 1879 ; Portchinsky, Hor. Ent. 
Ross. xvi. p. xiv. 
On new Insects injurious to agriculture in America ; Riley, P. Am. 
Ass. xxx. pp. 272 & 273. 
