Abstract
THE first volume of this work appeared in 1897, and included the wasps and bees, and now the second volume has been issued, containing the still more interesting family of the Formicidæ, and also the small, but very beautiful, family of the Chrysididæ, or ruby-tail wasps; or, as Colonel Bingham calls them, the cuckoo-wasps. This completes the important section of Aculeata, or stinging Hymenoptera, and the monographing of the remaining groups, which are still very imperfectly known, is very properly deferred for the present. We are, however, pleased to see that Colonel Bingham has undertaken to prepare a work on the butterflies of British India for the same series.
The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma.
Published under the Auspices of the Secretary of State for India in Council. Edited by W. T. Blanford. Hymenoptera. Vol. ii. Ants and Cuckoo-Wasps. By Lieut.-Colonel C. T. Bingham. Pp. xix + 506. (London: 1903.)
Article PDF
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma . Nature 68, 220 (1903). https://doi.org/10.1038/068220a0
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/068220a0