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CONTENTS. PAGE 



Observations on Coccidse (No. 19). — B. Newstead, F.E.S 81 



Moth catching by electric light at the Boer Camp, Diyatalawa, Ceylon. — E. 



Ernest Green, F.E.S 87 



Some remarks on the British species of Limnius. — 0. C. Champion, F.Z.S. .. 90 



The Life-history of Warble-flies. — Ernest E. Austen . 92 



Hymenopterological Notes. — Rev. F. D. Morice, M.A., F.E.S 96 



Ceuthorrhynchidius mistus, Muls. and Rey, at Porlock. — W, H. Bennett, F.E.S. 98 

 The late Mr. Lennon's collection of British Coleoptera. — Prof. T. Hudson 



Beare, P.R.S.E., Si'c 99 



Steni gliding on the surface of water. — A. Piffard 99 



Lophopteryx carmelita, Esp., in the New Forest. — E. R. Bankes, M.A., F.E.S .. 99 



Dark aberration of Enpithecia nanata at Shirley, Surrey. — Id 99 



Vanessa A utiopa at Woking. — E. Saunders, F.L.S., Sfc. 100 



Note on the weight of pupae of Acherontia Atropos. — H. F. Fryer, F.E.S 100 



Native method of catching Cicadaj in Lower Siam. — Eds 100 



An unrecorded recent native example of .^schna isosceles, Mixll. (rafescens, 



Y. d. 'L.).—R. McLachlan, F.R.S., ^c 101 



Revieav. — The larvae of the British Butterflies and Moths : by (the late) Wm. 



Bulkier: edited by Geo. T. Porritt. Vol. ix 101 



Societies. — Birmingham Entomological Society 102 



Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society 103 



South London Entomological, &c., Society 104 



Entomological Society of London 104 



The genus Heteromyza, Falle'n (Helomyzidse).— J. E. Collin, F.E.S 106 



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