Volume 1

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.

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    here included may nob occur witiiin the area now under British rule, but the majority of the forms recorded as Indian have doubtless been obtained from some part of India, Ceylon, or Burma, and it is to be hoped that all these will be rediscovered and the area they inhabit precisely determined. The few species of which I have been unable to examine specimens are distinguished by an asterisk prefixed to the serial number, thus *960. Tor material I have had my own large collections, made partly in the North-West Provinces, and during one season in Sikhim, but chiefly during the last twelve years in Burma and Tenasserim. I have to thank the Authorities of the British Museum for free access to the rich collections contained in the Natural History Museum at South Kensington. To Dr. P. Magretti, of Milan, Dr. E. Gestro, of the Museo Civico, Genoa, and Mens. B. Andre, of Gray, Haute-Saone, France, my warmest acknowledgments are due for the generous loan of many types and specimens. Above all, however, I am indebted to Mr. G. A. James Eothney, who very generously placed at my disposal the whole of his large and varied collection made during several years' residence in Bengal and the North-West Provinces of India. I have to thank also Miss A. Brook, Col. Terbury, Mr. P. Mdller, Mr. E. E. Green, Mr. W. D. Cumming, Mr. T. A. Hauxwell, Mr. A. Weston, and other friends, for very kindly sending to me collections of Hyraenoptera from various parts of India, Burma, and Ceylon.