About The Book

Contents: Author's Preface, Systematic index, Order coleoptera, Introduction to Subfamily Hispine, Historical, External structure, Stridulating organs, Carriers of Mites, Mimicry, Economics importance, Larvae and Life-history notes, Table of Groups of Indian hispine, Table of Genera of Group I, Table of Genera of Group II, Table of Genera of Group III, Table of Genera of Group IV, Introduction to subfamily Cassidinae, Historical, Differences between hispinae and Cassidinae, External structure, Life-history notes, References to the literature concerning the bionomics of the cassidinae, Table of Indian genera of cassidinae, Alphabetical index.