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Polyrjon la c-album, Aberrations of . . . 38 

 Polijmnmatus astvarche ab. qtiadri- 



puvctata in Kincardineshire 330 



Polijommatua escheri, Abundance of 202 



Polijoiiimtiis iolas in Switzerland ... 40 



PoUjommatug {Plcheius) i^ephijrin^ 



var. Ujcidas ... ... ... 294 



Porthcsia chriisorrhoea on oak ... 185 

 Porthctria dispar as a British insect 21 

 Portland, Collecting at ... ... 19 



Probable origin of certain ocellated 



spots in the larvae of Odoitestis 



potatoria, 287; of Lasiocampa 



querci'is 



Proposed new grouping of Lepidop- 



tera 



Protection of insects in danger of 



extermination, Committee for ... 



Protection versus Extermination ... 



Protective advantage of the colours 



assumed by the melanic form of 



Stauropus fagi 



Protective resemblance of Cliaraxct: 



jasins 

 Protective resting habit of Lithomia 



soltdaiiini.'i... 

 Ptinu^ bntiinetts, Duft., captured in 



Surrey 

 Pupa of Amblyptilia ncanthodactyhi, 

 264 ; of Charaxes jasiiis, 185 ; of 

 Dasychini pudibimda, 295; of 

 Demas coryli, 295 ; of Eiipithecia 

 dodoneata, 295 ; oiEupithecux frax- 

 inata, 265 ; of Euyyiiicnc dolobra- 

 ria, 295 ; of Hydriomena fiivcata, 

 111 ; of Lciocampa dictaea, 295 ; 

 of Lophopteryx camelina, 295 ; of 

 Neineobius lucina, 336 ; of Noto- 

 doiita ti'cpida, 294 ; of Poccilo- 

 campa popiili, 295 ; of Ptilodontis 

 palpina, 295 ; of Satuniia pyri, 

 144; of Taeniocampa pupuleti, 

 295; of Theclapnmi, 75; of Tro- 

 chilhtm api forme ... 



Pupa-digging in Ireland 



Pupation of Charaxes jasius, 217 ; 

 oi Tiresias serra ... 



287 



196 



130 

 337 



207 

 217 

 326 

 260 



260 

 64 



162 



Kara species of Lepidoptera from 

 Merton 129 



Rearing Polia xanthomista var. 

 nigrocinda ... ... 



lletarded emergence of Peta.sia 

 mtbeculosa, 182 ; of Nijssia hhpi- 

 daria 182 



Retrospect of a Lepidopterist for 

 1896 1 



Reviews and Notices of Books : — 

 Das Studium der Bracoiiideii, von 

 Dr. 0. Schmeideknecht, 158 ; 

 Die Deutschen Pterophorinen, von 

 Dr. Ottmar Hofmann, 72 ; Die 

 SclimetterUnrjs-fanna von Hilde- 

 sheim, by A. R. Grote, M.A., 241 ; 

 Faunc de France, by A. Acloque, 

 270 ; Harrow Butterjlies and 



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Moths, Vol. ii., by J. L. Bonhote, 

 M.B.O.U., and Hon. N. C. Roths- 

 child, F.Z.S., F.E.S., 186 ; L«f 

 of Portland Lepidoptera, by Nelson 

 Richardson, B.A., F.E.S., 184 ; 

 Mechanical Selection a)id other 

 Problems, by Karl Jordan, Ph.D., 

 130 ; Tlie developnunitofthe wiiiij- 

 scales and their piyment in Butter- 

 flies and Moths, by Alfred Golds- 

 borough Mayer ... ... ... 131 



Rhodophaea rubrotibiella. Notes on 329 

 Rhopalocera found in the Basses- 

 Alps (Digne;, 221 ; of the Guild- 

 ford district, 310 ; from La Grave 

 Rhynchota-Heteroptera collected 

 at Cannes... 



202 



256 



336 



268 

 260 



271 



118 

 130 

 332 



238 



Sale of Mr. C. A. Briggs' collection, 

 41; of J. B. Hodgkinson's collec- 

 tion 

 Sallows in York district 

 Satiirnia pavoiiia. Assembling of ... 

 Scales of European Zygaenides, On 



the 



Scales of Lepidoptera, Development 



of 131, 159 



Second broods in 1896 ... ... 42 



Senta maritima ab. bipunetata from 



Southend ... 

 Silk Qf Tephrosia bistortata ... 

 Sirex juvcncus in Bostall Woods ... 

 Smerinthus tiliae (?) with S. populi 



( (J ), Pairing of ... 

 Societies : — Cambridge Entomo- 

 logical and Natural History 

 Society, 24, 45, 100, 157 ; City of 

 London Entomological and 

 Natural History Society, 48, 68, 

 97. 127, 156, 185, 212 ; Committee 

 of Ent. Soc. of London for Pro- 

 tection of British Lepidoptera, 24, 

 130, 214; Congress of South 

 Eastern Union of Scientific 

 Societies, 184 ; Entomological 

 Society of London, 45, 71, 129; 

 Nonpareil Entomological Society, 

 129, 214 ; North London Society, 

 47, 129 ; Royal Society, 204 ; 

 South London Entom. a n d 

 Natural History Society ... 46 



South African insects 



Species, Varieties and Aberrations, 

 new to science : — Abraxas sylvata 

 (uhnata) ab. intermedia, Tutt, 307 ; 

 ab. obscura, Tutt, 307 ; ab. suffusa, 

 Tutt, 307 ; ab. transversa, Tutt, 

 307 ; Crambus culmellus ab. obscnra, 

 Tutt, 230 ; Hydriomena pureata 

 (sordidata) ab. cinereata, Prout, 

 86 ; ab. obliterata, Prout, 86 ; ab. 

 sordidata-albifaseiata, Prout, 87 ; 

 ab. testaceata, Prout, 86 ; Lita, 

 intermediella, Hodgk. ('? Lita fra- 

 ternella, Ed.), 36, 71 ; Lithosia 

 complana ab. pallida, Tutt, 141 ; 



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