THE 



ENTOMOLOGIST'S 

 MONTHLY MAGAZINE: 



CONDUCTEU BY 



C. a. BAEEETT, F.E.S. W. W. FOWLEE, M.A., F.L.S. 



a. C. CHAMPION, F.Z.S. E. McLACHLAN, F.E.S. 



J. W. DOUGLAS, F.E.S. E. SAUNDEES, F.L.S. 



H. T. STAINTON F.E.S. 



SECOND SEEIES-VOL. II 



[VOL. XXVII.] 



An inner impulse rent the veil 

 Of his old husk : from head to tail 

 Came out clear plates of sapphire mail. 

 He dried his wings ; like gauze they grew ; 

 Through crofts and pastures wet with dew, 

 A living flash of light he flew." — Tennyson. 



LONDON: 



GUENEY & JACKSON (Me. Van Voorst's Successoks), 



1, PATEENOSTEE EOW. 



1891. 



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