Excerpt from Dermaptera (Earwigs) IN this the first of the 'fauna of British India' Series issued under my Editorship, I would wish to record my sense of the loss Science has sustained through the death of the late lieutenant-colonel C. T. Bingham. He succeeded Dr. Blanford, who initiated and edited the Series for more than twenty years, in 1905, and since that time devoted himself unremittingly to the task he then took up. His loss has been widely felt, especially amongst the workers in systematic Entomology: if I may quote his own words about his predecessor To few, however, will that loss be personally so great as to those who under his direction were working for the Fauna of India series. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.