This Number contains 28 Pages. 



CONTENTS. PAGE 



Balearic Insects : Introduction. — Prof. E. B. Poulton, M.A., F.R.S., ^c 205 



Balearic Insects : Hymenoptera Aculeata, with descriptions of some new 



species. — E. Saunders, F.L.S., iS~c 208 



Summary of an article by Prof. F. Plateau, intituled, " Les Syrphides, admirent 



ils les coulenrs des fleurs?" — Eds 211 



Lophosia fasciata, Mg., a new British Dipteron. — F. C. Adams, F.Z.S 212 



Tachinidaa collected in 1900.— Co?6raw jr. Wainwright, F.E.S. 212 



On a new genus of Georaetridae from the Hawaiian Islands. — R. C. L. Perkins, 



B.A 215 



An addition to the Rhynchotal Fauna of New Zealand (Henicocephalus Mac- 



]ach\am).— G. W. Kirkaldy, F.E.S 217 



Notes on a few days' collecting (Coleoptera) at Madeira. — M. Cameron, M.B., 



B.N 220 



Notes on certain palaearctic species of the genus Hemerobius (H. inconspicuus, 



McLach., and li. -peUncidMa, Yf\]s..).—K. J. Morton, F.E.S 222 



Pyrrhosoma tenellnm, Vill., in Merionethshire. — Id 224 



Coleoptera in North Wales. — Rev. Theodore Wood, F.E.S. 225 



Dryophilus pusillus, Gyll., in Cumberland. — F. H. Day 225 



Notes on the pairing of Lampyris noctiluca. — CZaitde Morley, F.E.S. 226 



Vanessa Antiopa in Shetland. — J. J. F. X. King, F.E.S 226 



Abundance of Lycaena argiolus near London. — R. McLachlan, F.R.S., ^c... ... 227 



On the oviposition of Lycasna Icarus.— G. T. Bethune-Baker, F.L.S 227 



Notes on the Lepidoptera of the Breadalbane District of Perthshire. — H. Ooss, 



F.L.S., ^c 227 



Curious nest of Odynerus. — L. Doncaster, B.A 228 



Reviews.— Familiar Butterflies and Moths : by W. F. Kirby, F.L.S., &c 229 



The Stridnlating Organs of Waterbugs, especially of Corixida): by 



G. W. Kirkaldy, F.E.S.— £. Saiwiders, F.i.S 229 



Obituary.— Eleanor A. Ormerod, LL.D., F.R. Met. Soc, F.E.S. 230 



Societies. — Birmingham Entomological Society 231 



South London Entomological, &c., Society 231 



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