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and Journal of Variation. 



(Vols. I-XXII). 



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Contents of Vol. I. (Most important only Mentioned.) 



Genus Acronycta and its allies. — Variation bf Smerinthus tiliae, 3 coloured 

 plates — Differentiation of Melitaea athalia, parthenie, and aurelia — The Doubleday 

 collection — Parthenogenesis — Paper on Taeniocampidae — Phylloxera — Practical 

 Hints (many) — Parallel Variation in Coleoptera — Origin of Argynnis paphia var. 

 valesina — Work for the Winter — Temperature and Variation — Synonymic notes — 

 Retrospect of a Lepidopterist for 1890 — Lifehistories of Agrotis pyrophila, Epunda 

 lichenea, Heliophubns hispidus — Captures at light — Aberdeenshire notes, etc., 

 etc., 360 pp. 



Contents of Vol. 11. 



Melanism and Melanochroism — Bibliography — Notes on Collecting — Articles 

 on Variation (many) — How to breed Agrotis lunigera, Sesia sphegiformis, Taenio- 

 campa opima— Collecting on the Norfolk Broads — Wing development — Hybridising 

 Amphidasys prodromaria and A. betularia — Melanism and Temperature — Differen- 

 tiation of Dianthrcias — Disuse of wings — Fauna of Dulwich, Sidmouth, S. London 

 — Generic nomenclature and the Acronyctidae — A fortnight at Eannoch — Heredity 

 in Lepidoptera — Notes on Genus Zyg^na (Anthrocera) — Hybrids — Hymenoptera-- 

 Lifehistory of Gonoj)}iora derasa, etc., etc., 312 pp. 



Contents of Vol. ill. 



Genus Acronycta and its allies (continued) — Scientific Notes — The British 

 Coccinellidae — Notes on Breeding — Notes on Coleoptera (very many) — Dates of 

 appearance of Eupithecia pygmeata — Dimorphic pupae — Duration of Ova State of 

 the Geometridae (with tables) — Effects of temperature on the colouring of Lepidop- 

 tera — Hints on labelling — Melanic varieties— Changes in nomenclature — Keeping 

 Micro pupiB during winter — Notes on Genus Hepialus — Reviews, etc., etc., 320 pp. 



Contents of Vol. IV. 



Additions to British Lists — Presidential Addresses of British Association and 

 Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society — Autumnal collecting at Fresh- 

 water, Isle of Wight — Captures of rarities — Collecting beetles — Critical notes on 

 certain Noctuur — A day's collecting in the Western Highlands — Apparent dearth 

 of Diurni — Double-brooded species — Theearly stages of certain Geometrina — Sensi- 

 bility of larvaj to sound— Collecting in North Kent — How to obtain and preserve 

 ova— Retrospect of a Lepidopterist for 1893— Stridulation— Variety breeding — The 

 Pupal and Imaginal wings of Lepidoptera, etc., etc., 354 pp. 



Contents of Vol V. 



On the larva of Arctia caia (with plates)— Evolution of the Le^idopterous 

 Pupa— Rev. H. Burney's collection (sale) — Life-History of a Lepidopterous Insect 

 (Morphology and Physiology, etc.) — Among the Ancients — Erehia epiphron and its 

 named Varieties— Life-History of Agrotis agathina — Ten Days at Wicken Fen — 

 Varieties of Hpilosoma mendica — Butterfij Catching in the neighbourhood of Mt. 

 Blanc — Life-History of Ocneria dispar — Zygaena exulans and its Variations — 

 Entomology at Rainham, Essex — Additions to the British List — New Method of 

 Relaxing Insects, etc., etc., 308 pp. 



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