CONTENTS. 



Vll 



Macro-Lepidoptera of S. Devon, 34 



Macromphalia livularis, description of 

 larva, 149 



Malformations — Cidaria reticulata, 16 ; 

 Ocneria dispar, 235, 322 



Melanism in London Lepidoptera, 60, 

 93, 111, 112, 247 



Meteorological conditions, effect on 

 insect life, 217 



Miana strigilis, melanic form, 60, 111 ; 

 fnruncula, assembling of, 232 



Micro-Lepidoptera of South Devon, 92 



Middlesex — Deilephila galii at Hollo- 

 way, 21U ; melanism in London 

 Lepidoptera, 60, 93, 111, 112, 247; 

 Choerocampa nerii at Poplar, 258 ; 

 Deilephila galii, 274 ; Cirrhcedia 

 xerampelina at Acton, 276 ; Sirex 

 juvencus, 282 ; Sirex gigas near 

 Enfield, 323 



Nepticula minusculella in Lanes., 160 

 New Zealand, notes from, 267 

 Norfolk — Deilephila galii, 257 

 Northern Lepidoptera in 1887, 104 

 North-west counties, notes, 313 

 Notodonta bicolor, 275 

 Notodontida', notes on, 36 ; double- 

 brooded, 58 

 Nyssia zonaria, two years in pupa, 140 ; 

 at Southport, 156 



Obituary — William Farren, 19, 71 ; 



James English, 72 ; James Hamer, 



72 ; Henry James Stovin Pryer, 



167; Miss M. E. Glanville, 168; 



Philip Henry Gosse, 264 ; John 



Scott, 288 

 Ocneria dispar, malformation, 235, 322 

 Odontffius mobilicornis in the Isle of 



Wight, 92 

 Ovipositing of Sphingida?, 14 

 Oxfordshire — Vanessa antiopa, 12 ; 



Stauropus fagi, 158 



Papilio machaon, variety, 89,"^ 109 

 Parasites of Hessian fly, 202 

 Pejibrokeshire — Sugaring near Tenby, 



187 

 Phigalia pedaria in January, 91 

 Pieridff, abundance of, 53 

 Pigment, dimorphism of, 189 

 Pimpla scanica, hyiDer-jjarasitic, 140 

 Platyptilia gonodactyla, second brood, 



259 

 Plusia gamma, abundance, 187, 212, 



233 ; chryson in Hants, 234 

 Polia xanthomista in Cornwall, 59 

 Post-glacial insects, 1 

 Pupa-digging, 116 

 Pupation of Cossus, 56, 110, 155 

 Pytho, new species in Japan, 108 



Relaxing insects, 65 



Retarded emergence — Sphinx convol- 

 vuli, 55 ; Gortyna ochracea, 60, 

 112; Nyssia zonaria, 140 ; of Shet- 

 land Lepidoptera, 234 



Rumia luteolata, variety, 15, 112 



Saturnia pavonia, cocoon with two 

 openings, 14 



Scotland — Deilephila galii, 231 



Season 1887, scarcity of insects, 19, 

 116 ; abundance, 113, 155 : 1888, 

 283, 294 



Selenia tetralunaria, experiments on 

 heredity in, 260 



Sesia culiciformis, variety, 210 ; myo- 

 pjeformis in Thanet, 322 



Setting Lepidoptera, 16, 17 ; high-flat, 

 169, 203, 325 



Shetland Lepidoptera, retarded emerg- 

 ence, 234 



Silpha, Japanese species, 7 



Sirex gigas, 214 ; in Hants, 235 ; near 

 Enfleld, 323 ; juvencus, in London, 

 282 



Smerinthus tilire abundant, 232, 258 ; 

 variety, 273 



Somersetshire — Collecting in, 62 



Spain, Entomological campaign in, 38, 

 75 



Sphingidfe, ovipositing of, 14 ; in Sussex, 

 274 



Sphinx convolvuh, 56 ; two years in 

 pupa, 55 ; abundant in Cornwall, 

 56 ; in Essex, 230 ; in Sussex, 

 Staffordshire, York, 256 ; in Hants, 

 273 



Spilosoma urticse, variety, 97 



Staffordshire — Vanessidaj in, 53 ; 

 Sphinx convolvuli, 256 



Stauropus fagi in Oxfordshire, 158 



Strangalia aurulenta, 213 



Suffolk — Deilephila galii, 256 



Sugaring, after rain, successful, 140, 

 162 ; at Christchurch, 162 ; near 

 Tenby, Wales, 187 ; near Carlisle, 

 212 



Surrey — Vanessa c-album, 89 ; Leiopti- 

 lus lienigianus, at Croydon, 113 ; 

 Lepidoptera in, 324 



Sussex — Acronycta alni, 58 ; Syrichthus 

 malva:', var. taras, at St. Leonard's, 

 186 ; Deilephila livornica, 186 ; 

 Laphygma exigua at Lewes, 186; 

 Vanessa antiopa, 229 ; S^Dhinx con- 

 volvuli, 256 ; Colias edusa and var. 

 helice at Chichester, 272 ; Sphingidffi, 

 274 ; Anosia plexippus, 321 ; Acida- 

 lia immorata at Lewes, 322 



Switzerland, Diurni, 54 ; a fortnight 

 in, 181 ; Lyca-na argiolus at Lu- 

 cerne, 229 



Synia musculosa in Lancashire, 258 



Syrichthus malva?, var. taras, at 

 St Leonard's, 186 



