Contents: 1. Charles Darwin : a biogeographer par excellence and a figurehead of rational science/K.C. Gopi and C. Radhakrishnan. 2. A new subgenus and two new species of the Family Oppiidae (Acarina : Oribatida) from India/A.K. Sanyal. 3. Mantid (Insecta : Mantodea) Fauna of Old Bihar (Bihar and Jharkhand) with some new records for the state/P.M. Sureshan and S. Sambath. 4. Haemadipsa Anaigundensis sp. nov. (Hirudinea : Haemadipsidae) a new species of Leech from Tamil Nadu, India/C.K. Mandal. 5. First report of the occurrence of some rare Butterflies (Lepidoptera : Rhopalocera) from Chhattisgarh, Central India/R.M. Sharma and Kailash Chandra. 6. Taxonomic studies of the Hover Wasps (Hymenoptera : Vespidae; Stenogastrinae) of Arunachal Pradesh, India/G. Srinivasan and Girish P. Kumar. 7. Biodiversity and distribution of freshwater Rotifers (Rotifera : Eurotatoria) of Tamil Nadu/B.K. Sharma and Sumita Sharma. 8. Ecology, faunal diversity and habitat management strategies of Amphibians and reptiles of Sunderban/Varadaraju. 9. A comparative view of three closely related Calicnemia species--C. Pulverulans Selys, C. Imitans Lifetinck and C. Sudhaae Mitra (Odonata : Zygoptera : Platycnemididae)/R. Babu and Supriya Nandy. 10. A new species of the Genus Camptomyia Kieffer (Diptera : Cecidomyiidae : Porricondylinae) from Maharashtra, India/K.A. Ahad Najam, M.S. Siddique, V.D. Deshpande and R.M. Sharma. 11. Description of a new species of Leptobrachium Tschudi, 1838 (Amphibia : Anura : Megophryidae) from Meghalaya, India/Rosamma Mathew and Nibedita Sen. 12. Description of a new species and new record including some known species of Encyrtidae (Hymenoptera : Chalcidoidea) from India/S.I. Kazmi and Hayat Mohammad. Short Communication: First Record of Rhinocypha Trifasciata Selys from Maharashtra, India (Odonata : Zygoptera : Chlorocyphidae)/S.B. Mondal and R. Babu.