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coleoptera. 
proportion which cannot be so placed ; to those who wish to go more deeply 
into the subject, we recommend the voluminous literature; to those who 
simply want to know where to place the specimen, we would suggest 
sending it to Pusa. For ordinary daily working purposes, almost every 
beetle can be placed at sight in a family at least; to keep pace with changes 
in classification, to be able to place all beetles more or less accurately? 
one would have to drop all other work and become an expert in this one 
subject, a matter of many years of study. We have tried to give the 
essentials only of such a study. 
A complete list of families will be found at the commencement of 
the volume where we have placed important families in heavy type, and 
families not known to be represented in India in italics. We have not 
tabulated sub-families in this list as these divisions do not imply groups 
of insects so distinct in habits or structure that the student should 
take heed of them. 
Apart from the naturalists who collected in India or obtained speci¬ 
mens from this country in the early part of last century, and whose work 
iaid the, foundation of our knowledge of the common species, the work of 
a limited number of collectors in recent years requires notice. Thus, 
Father Cardon collected in Chota Nagpur and Kurseong (see Ann. Soc. 
Ent. Beige., 1890—1894); the collections of Messrs. T. R. Bell in Canara, 
of H. E. and H. L. Andrewes in the Nilgiris, Anamalais and other South 
Indian hill districts (loc. cit., 1895—1905), of Doherty in Manipur, Bur- 
mah, etc., the visit to India of Mons. Maindron (see Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 
1903 onwards) and the visit of Mons. Harmand to Darjeeling (Ann. Soc. 
Ent. France, 1903, p. 108) have borne fruit in description of new forms, in 
lists of existing known species and so on ; these collections, however, 
scarcely affect the real India (Mons. Maindron’s visit alone excepted), 
since the insects collected were from hill localities like Darjeeling with its 
temperate climate and fauna; the same may be said of Signor Fea’s visit 
to Burmah in another sense (Ann. Mus. Genova, 1892 et seq.) and of the 
visits of Mr. Lewis, Mons. Simon and Dr. Horn to Ceylon. The student 
of the fauna of “ British India” will owe a debt to these workers, but 
there have been scarcely any such workers in India proper. 
We have endeavoured to refer to most important papers or to give 
some clue to where the student may find literature ; but this literature 
