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THE importance of economic entomology is now fully recognised by the Indian Government, and the publication before us is devoted chiefly to Scolytidæ and other beetles injurious to the bark and leaves of trees, and to their parasites; a few moths and scale-insects are also noticed. Each species occupies several pages, and is fully dealt with under various headings, the most important being description, life-history, relations to* the forest, points in the life-history requiring further observation (an extremely important matter), protection and remedies, localities, parasites, fungi, &c. Several species are referred to under their generic names only, but this will not render their identification a matter of any great difficulty. The illustrations are fairly good, and many of them are devoted to galleries of Scolytidæ and to different portions of trees attacked by insects. The illustrations of the Coccid, Monophlebus Stebbingi, Green, on plate 14 are very interesting. We are sorry that Mr. Stebbing has overlooked the necessity for adding the author's name to every described species mentioned; it is done in some cases, but is frequently omitted, and many of the species described have “M.S.”appended to their names. We presume that these are names published for the first time by Mr. Stebbing himself, in which case he should either have added his own name or else “n. sp,”
Departmental Notes on Insects that Affect Forestry.
By E. P. Stebbing, Forest Entomologist under the Government ot India. No. 2. Pp. vii + 151 334; plates vii–xix. (Calcutta, 1903.)
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Departmental Notes on Insects that Affect Forestry . Nature 68, 101 (1903). https://doi.org/10.1038/068101b0
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