CONTENTS. 



PAOE. 



In Sunny Spain— July and August, 1912. (With two plates), Rosa E. Page, B.A. 



(To be concluded) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • • 33 



Collecting Orthoptera in the Caucasus and Tianscaucasus. (With two plates), 



3Ialcolm Burr, D.Sc, F.Z.S., F.E.S. (Concluded.) 37 



Bledius crassicollis. Lac, and B. occidentalis. Bond., W. E. Sharp, F.E.S. . . 42 



Some Notes on the Genus Myrmica, Latr. (With one plate and several woodcuts), 



H.St.J.K.Doiii>!thorpe,F.Z.S.,F.E.S. (Concluded.) .. .. .. 42 



Appendix.— First List of Aphides found with Mvrmica, Fred. V. Theobald, M.A., 



F.E.S .' 48 



Coleoptepa:— Beetles of Tiree, P. //. jSa.rfon, i^.i'LS. 51 



Scientific Notes and Observations : — The Absence of Originality and Design, 

 Communicated : The Pairing Habits of Hepialus pyrenaicus, G. T. Bethune- 

 Baker, F.E.S 52 



Collecting Notes : — Early appearance, J. Alderson ; Records, H. M. Edelsten, 



F.E.S.; The Seikson 1912, H. Baker-Sly, F.E.S 53 



Current Notes and Short Notices . . . . . . . . . . . • • • 54 



Reviews : — The Transactions of the City of London Entomological and Natural 



History Society for 1911 ; The South-Eastern Naturalist for 1912 . . • • 55 



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Melanism and Melanochroism in British Lepidoptera. 



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Deals exhaustively with all the views brought forward by scientists to account for the 

 forms of melanism and melanochroism ; contains full data respecting the distribution of 

 melanic forms in Britain, and theories to account for their origin ; the special value of 

 "natural selection," "environment," "heredity," "disease," "temperature," &c., in 

 particular cases. Lord Walsingham, in his Presidential address to the Fellows of the 

 Entomological Society of London, says, "An especially interesting line of enquiry as con- 

 nected with the use and value of colour in/insects is that which has been followed up in 

 Mr. Tutt's series of papers on ' Melanism?' and Melanochroism.' " 



Rambles in Alpine Valleys. 



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This book contains a series of essays dealing with the colours of insects, and sugges- 

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 facts are brought forward, and entomological problems discussed from various standpoints. 



Woodside, Burnside, Hillside and Marsh. 



(Crown 8vo., Illustrated, 224 pp. and 103 woodcuts and full-page illustrations. Bound 



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