Volume 2

The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma / edited by W.T. Blanford, A.E. Shipley, assisted by A.K. Marshall. Hymenoptera. Vol.I, Wasps and bees. Vol.II, Ants and cuckoo-wasps / by C.T. Bingham. Vol. III, Ichneumonidae:-I. Ichneumones Deltoidei / by Claude Morley.

Date:
1897-1913
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Credit: The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma / edited by W.T. Blanford, A.E. Shipley, assisted by A.K. Marshall. Hymenoptera. Vol.I, Wasps and bees. Vol.II, Ants and cuckoo-wasps / by C.T. Bingham. Vol. III, Ichneumonidae:-I. Ichneumones Deltoidei / by Claude Morley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service. The original may be consulted at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service.

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    PREFACE. This volume is the second by Col. Bingham containing descriptions of Hymenopterous Insects, and includes the Ants, or Formicidaj, and the Chrysididse. These families complete the Aculeate division of the Order Hymenoptera. The first volume, comprising the Bees and Wasps, was issued in 1897, and the author has devoted much of his time in the intervening years to the collection and study of Ants and other Insects in Burma and India. A single coloured plate, to illustrate the Chrysididje, is added. The Ants, which are dull-coloured and generally black or brown, are sufficiently represented by figures in the text. The Ants of India, Ceylon, and Burma are numerous, and they have received in recent years much attention from naturalists. The ChrysididBe are less well known than the Ants, and it is probable that further additions may be made ^to the list of species recorded as occurring in British India. It is not proposed for the present to proceed with the remaining families of Hymenoptera in the ' Fauna of British India.' As, however, a large number of species belonging to the Ichneumonidse and other families are known, and aa all are of considerable interest and importance, it may be hoped that an account of them will be published at some