CONTENTS. 



PAGE. 



The Season of 1912 in the Abertillery district of Monmouthshire, W. Rait Smith, 



i^.fi.S. (concluded) 173 



Protective Resemblance, C. W. Colthrtip (to be continued) . . . . . . . . 179 



Some Notes on the Early Stages of Cemiostoma laburnella, Alfred Sick, F.E.S. . . 182 

 The Coloration Problem. A Kejoinder, Eey G. Wheeler, M. A., F.Z.S., F.E.S. .. 188 

 Neuraphes nij^rescens, lleitt., Verb, zool.-bot. Ges Wien, 1881, p. 566. A Species 



of Coleoptera new to Britain, H. St. J. K. Jhmislhorpe, F.Z.S., F.E.S. . . 191 



Further Notes on Libythea celtis, 2'. A. Chapman, M.D. (with five plates). . . . 192 



Courtship of Hepialus hecta, E. A. Cockayne, 31. A., M.D., tCF. W. J. Jackson, 



M.A 195 



SciKXTiFic Notes and Observations : — llesting Habit of Pyrameis cardui, Colias 

 edusa, and Pieris napi, C. W. Colthrup ; Irregularity of Hatching of ova of 

 Ennomos erosaria, Irf. ; Fertility of Liparis disx)ar, T. A. Chapman, M.D. ; 

 Collective Protective Resemblance (H.J.T.) ; Divergence in the forwardness of 

 the season in different parts of Switzerland, Georf/c ]Vheeler, F.E.S. ; Gonep- 

 teryx rhamni and G. cleopatra in company. Id. ; Aperceptional Expectancy. . 195 

 Notes on CoiiLEcriNo : — Deiopeia pulchella, S. G, Gaatle-Eussell ; Lophopteryx 

 carmclil;a in Northumberland, G. Nicholson ; Gloucestershire Lepidoptera, IF. 

 B. Davis; Records of Colias edusa in 1912, C. IV. Colthrup; A plea for the 

 Preservation of Euchloe cardamines, liosa E. Page . . . . . . . . 198 



Current Notes and Short Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201 



Societies : — The South London Entomological and Natural History Society ; The 



Entomological Society of London ; Lancashire Entomological Society . . 209 

 Reviews : — The North American Dragonflies of the genus ^schna, H.E.P. ; The 

 Macrolepidoptera of the World, Vol. IL The Palsearctic Sphingids and 

 Bombyces, by Dr. Seitz, H.J.T 215 



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