Fishes - Home

India volumes, (2) Indian Insect Life by H M. Lefroy 1909, (3) Ecology
and Control of Forest Insects by C. F. C. Beeson 1941, (4) General Text
Book of Entomology by A.D. Imms 1957, (5) Reports of the Proceedings
of the Entomological Meetings Pusa Nos. 2 to 5, (6) Bulletins by T.V.R.
Ayyar and T. B. Fletcher, (7) Records of the Indian Museum, (8) Indian
Forest Records, (9) Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, (10)
Ihe Indian Journal of Entomology. Besides these a number of useful
publications have been referred to but no claim is made that the list of
insects of Maharashtra is complete. The descriptions given are naturally
brief and the life history and habits have been given only for groups—
Family, Genus etc. Localities of cosmopolitan species are not mentioned.
Some species which are fairly common in India hut which have not yet
been recorded in Maharashtra are mentioned briefly for general
information, Figures of some important families of insects are included to
facilitate identification. Most of them have been copied from both '
Instructions for collectors No. 4A' of the British Museum (Natural
History). They do not represent the natural size.
FAUNA 240