CONTENTS. PAGE 



A List of the British Cecidomyidse arranged according to the views of recent 



Authors (concluded). — James E. Collin, F.E.S 97 



The food-plant of Teracolus nouna, Lucas. — Rt. Hon. Lord Walsingham, M.A., 



LL.D., F.R.S., Efc 99 



KhadinoceraBa micans, Klug : a new British saw-fly. — Rev. F. D. Morice, M.A., 



r.-P.E.S 99 



Collecting (chiefly Coleoptera) in old hedges near Faversham, Kent. — A. J. 



Chitty, M.A., F.E.S 100 



A note on Lasiosoma hirta. — T. A. Chapman, M.D.^ V. -P. E.S 103 



Ptinus tectus, Boield., in Hoylake.— E. J. B. Sopp, F.E.S 108 



Apion brnnnipes, Boh. (laevigatnm, Kby.), at Oxford. — W. Holland 108 



Clinocara undulata, Kr., in the Northumberland and Durham district. — B. S. 



Bagnall 108 



Triplax senea, SchalL, in the Derwent Valley. — 7c? 108 



Ptinus tectus and Lathridins bergrothi in Holborn. — A. J. Chitty, M.A., F.B.S. 109 



Formica fnsca winged in spring. — J. R. Malloch 109 



Andrena albicans and Nomada bifida at Bonhill. — Id 109 



Notes on Diptera in t^e New Forest in 1903.— F. C. Adams, F.E.S 109 



Capture of Peribalus vernalis, WolflF, at Huntingfield.— 4. J. Chitty, M A., F.E.S. 11 1 



Orthetrum caerulescens in Cumberland. — F. B. Day, F.E.S Ill 



Wicken Fen : another disastrous fire. — G. H. Verrall, F.E.S ]11 



Obituary. — Joseph Merrin 112 



Societies. — Birmingham Entomological Society 112 



South London Entomological, &c., Society 113 



Entomological Society of London 113 



Antipodean Field Notes : II. — A year's Insect Hunting in New Zealand 



(continued). — James J. Walker, R.N. , F.L.S 115 



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