VI 



CONTENTS. 



249, 273 ; in Cheshire, 256 ; in Kent, 



Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, 257 ; in 



Lanes, and Berks., 321 

 Devonshire — South, Macro - Lepido- 



ptera, 34 ; Micro-Lepidoptera, 92 ; 



Callimorpha hera, 258, 274 ; Colias 



edusa, 272 ; Laphygma exigua, 276 

 Derbyshire — Thecla w-album, 184 

 Dicranura vinula on tamarisk, 157, 211 ; 



bicuspis, 275 

 Dimorphism of pigment, 189 

 Diplosis pyrivora, 123 

 Diptera, collecting, 241 ; British, 325 

 Dorsetshire — Colias edusa, 273 ; Cirr- 



hcfidia xerampelina, 276 



Ematurga atomaria, scarcity in 1887, 92 

 Entomological Exhibition, 265 ; work in 



Colorado, 298 

 Entomological Societies — London, 20, 



69, 93, 118, 141, 164, 189, 214, 237, 



260, 284, 326; South London, 21, 

 69, 95, 119, 143, 165, 191, 215, 238, 



261, 265, 285, 326 ; Penarth, 285 

 Entomological Society, proposal for a 



new, 10, 68, 121 

 Ephestia kiihniella, 279 

 Epinephele hyperauthes, variety, 256, 



273 

 Erebia epiphron, pupa, 230 

 Errata, 69, 117, 141, 163, 237, 284 

 Essex — -Vanessa antiopa at Waltham- 



stow, 155, 184 ; Sphinx convolvuli, 



23i); Deilephiia galii, 231, 257 

 Eupithecia curzoni ? 60 ; venosata, 186 

 Extraction of moth from pupa, 236 



Formicarious Histeridte, 289 



Gelechia acuminatella, 91 

 Glamorganshire — Lepidoptera, 115 

 Gloccestershike — Thecla w-album, 256 

 Gortyna ochracea, retarded emergence, 



60, 112 

 Gynandrochromorphic Lycsena icarus, 



185 



Hampshire — Dasycampa rubiginea at 

 Christchurch, 90 ; sugaring at 

 Christchurch, 162 ; Apatura iris, 

 209 ; Vanessa antiopa, 229 ; New 

 Forest Zygsena meliloti, 232 ; Plusia 

 chryson, 233 ; Sirex gigas, 235 ; 

 Sphinx convolvuli, 273 ; Agrotis 

 puta, 276 ; Tortrix piceana, 27'.* ; 

 Lepidoptera in, 279 ; captures in 

 New Forest, 282 



Hebrides, Outer — Lepidoptera of, 25, 

 28, 98 



Heliothis peltigera in Wales, 259 



Hemileuca diana, 283 



Heredity in Selenia tetralunaria, ex- 

 periments on, 260 



Herefordshire — Captures at sallows, 



160 

 Hermaphrodite Lycasna corydon, 13 

 Hessian fly, parasites of, 202 

 Histeridae, formicarious, on the capture 



of, 289 

 Hybernated Diurni, abundance, 235 

 Hyberniamarginaria near Southx^ort, 157 



Insect life, effect of meteorological 

 conditions, 217 



Ireland— Deilephiia livornica at Bel- 

 fast, 186 ; galii, 231 



Isle of Wight — Odoutieus mobilicornis, 

 92 ; Leindoptera, 115 ; Vanessa 

 antiopa, 229 



Japan — Some species of Silpha, 7 ; new 

 species of Pytho, 108 ; species of 

 Acrops, 220 



Kent — Varieties near Dover, 132 ; Dei- 

 lephiia galii, 230, 231, 257, 273 

 Vanessa antiopa, 254, 255, 273 

 rare Lepidoptera at Deal, 259 

 Sesia myopceformis in Isle of 

 Thanet, 322 



Labelling insects, 145 



Lancashire — Nyssia zonaria near South- 

 port, 156 ; Hybernia marginaria 

 near Southport, 157 ; Nepticula 

 minusculella, 160 ; Synia muscu- 

 losa, 258 ; Deilephiia galii, 321 



Laphygma exigua at Lewes, 186 ; at 

 Chichester, 276 ; in Devon, 276 



Larvae, giant Lepidopterous, in Austra- 

 lia, 18 ; abundance of, 188 ; Lepi- 

 dopterous, near SheOield, 281 



Lasioptera cerealis, 193 



Leioptilus lieuigianus at Croydon, 113 



Lepidoptera, post glacial, 1, 66 ; of 

 Outer Hebrides, 25 ; distribution 

 of, in Outer Hebrides, &c., 28, 98 ; in 

 Channel Islands, 63, 150, 324 ; ripe 

 plums a bait for, 65 ; method of 

 relaxing, 66 ; feeding on vines, 66 ; 

 northern, in 1887, 104; spring, in 

 Cheshire. 160 ; caught at sea, 161 ; 

 rare, at Deal, 259 ; in Hants, 279 ; 

 in South Wales, in Cumberland, 

 280 ; in Carmarthenshire, 281 ; in 

 North-west counties, 313 ; in 

 Surrey, 324 



Lincolnshire — Lucanus cervus, 213 ; 

 Acronycta alni, 258 



Lithosia complaua, food of larvte, 322 



Lucanus cervus in Lincolnshire, 213 



Lyc£ena corydon, hermaphrodite, 13, 

 away from chalk, 13, in Cumber- 

 land, 54 ; icarus, gynandrochro- 

 morphic, 185 ; argiolus, spring 

 brood of, 185 ; at Lucerne, 229 ' 



