The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma

Abstract

IN this supplementary volume, Mr. Distant describes a large number of species which have recently come into his hands, but most of which have already been described in advance of the present work in the Annals and Magazine of Natural History, the Annales de la Soc. Ent. de Belgique, &c.; and thus he completes his work on the Indian Heteroptera. This volume extends from the family Lygædæ to the family Corixidæ, and we are informed that “A further volume, which will form an appendix to the Homoptera, will complete the enumeration of the Indian Rhynchota, with the exception of the families Psyllidæ, Aphididæ, Aleurodidæ, and Coccidæ.” The species here described extend from Nos. 2769 to 3135, and are illustrated by 214 excellent illustrations in the text. The first page is devoted to controversial questions of nomenclature, and a few bibliographical notes.The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma.Published under the authority of the Secretary of State for India in Council. Edited by Dr. A. E. Shipley, assisted by G. A. K. Marshall. Rhynchota. Vol. v., Heteroptera. Appendix by W. L. Distant. Pp. xii + 362. (London: Taylor and Francis; Calcutta: Thacker, Spink and Co.; Berlin: R. Friedländer and Son, 1910.) Price 10s.