CONTENTS. PAGE 



Observations on Sphecodes {concluded). — Rev. F. D. Morice, M.A., F.E.S 57 



Notes on the Lepidoptera of Northamptonshire. Pt. I, Rhopalocera. — Herbert 



Goss, F.L.S.,^c 58 



Acanthopsyche opacella : instinct altered when parasitized. — T. A. Chapman, 



M.D., F.Z S., ^c 62 



Names of Legs of Insects.— G. U. Verrall, V.-P.E.S 64 



The completed History of Harpalus FrSlichii, Sturm, as a British Insect. — 



Claude Morley, F.E.S 64 



Aculeate Hymenoptera in Perthshire. — A.E.J. Carter 67 



Hymenoptera Aculeata of Suffolk. — Rev. J. H. Hocking, M.A., F.E.S 68 



Description of a new species of Cruncecia (Trichoptera) from Austria. — 



Kenneth J. Morton, F.E.S 69 



Description of a new species of Cicadidas from the Bahama Islands. — W. L. 



Distant, F.E.S 71 



Aculeate Hymenoptera in North Wales. — E. B. Nevinson, F.E.S 72 



Aculeate Hymenoptera in the New Forest. — Id . ... 72 



Observations on Sphecodes.— (7. J. Wainwright, F.E.S. ... 72 



Notes on Piezodorus lituratus, F. — Rei<. W. F. Johnson, M. A., F.E.S 73 



Notes on Diptera in the New Forest during 1900. — F. C. Adams, F.Z.S 74 



Two unrecorded British Diptera.— C. W. Dale, F.E.S 75 



List of Lepidoptera of Cheshire and North Wales. — 0. 0. Day, F.E.S 76 



The "Curtis" Collection of British Insects.— J. J. Walker, R.N., F.L.S 76 



Review. — British Flies, Vol. viii (Platypezidae, Pipunculidae and Syrphidse) : 



by G. H. Verrall, P.E.S.— Col. J. vV. Yerbury, R.A., F.Z.S., cfc 76 



Obituary. — Baron Michel Edmond de Selys-Longchamps, Hon. F.E.S. — R. 



McLachlan, F.H.S., ^c 78 



Society. — South London Entomological, &c. 80 



TUESDAY, MARCH 26th, 1901. 



IMPORTANT SALE OF BRITISH LEPIDOPTERA. 



lyrE. J. C. STEVENS will Sell by Auction, at bis Great Eooms, 

 38, King Street, Covent Garden, as above, at half-past 12 o'clock precisely, 

 the Collection of British Lepidoptera formed by P. W. Abbott, Esq , of Edgbaston, 

 comprising long series in fine condition and uniformly set, of most of the British 

 species, including some particularly choice varieties and aberrations, together with 

 the Cabinets in which they are contained, also Palsearotic Lepidoptera and other 

 insects, &c. 



On view the day prior, 10 till 4, and Morning of Sale, and Catalogues had. 



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in their new Price List, No. XLIV, offer more than 15,000 species of well- 

 named LEPIDOPTERA, set or in papers, from all parts of the world, in finest 

 condition ; 1300 kinds of PREPARED LARVJE ; numerous LIVING PUP^, &c. 

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