Excerpt from The Fauna of British India, Vol. 3: Including Ceylon and Burma
So long ago as 1903, W. T. Blanford remarked that it was not proposed to proceed for the present with the publication of the remainder of the Hymenoptera of British India; but considering the peculiar interest and economic importance of the Ichneumonid?, it was to be hoped that an account of them would appear at some future time. He added that our knowledge of this group was then less perfect than that of the Aculeata, a statement which is still very true. In January, 1908, the succeeding editor, Lt.-Col. C. T. Bingham, asked me to prepare a volume on this interesting family; and I have herein compiled to the best of my ability, though the task of bringing into tabular form genera and species described in six languages throughout an extremely scattered literature has not been light. The published species of Indian Ichneumonid? were computed by H. Maxwell Lefroy to number two hundred and eighty-eight in 1909, showing how little had been attempted in this direction; and the amount left to be done truly appeared appalling from the same author's statement(Indian Insect Life,' p. 178) that "nothing is on record as to the hosts of these species and the forms occurring in India are practically unknown."
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