CONTENTS. 



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glass cylinders, 141 ; lepidopterous, 

 destruction by summer frosts, 188 



Leicestershire — Sphinx convolvuli at 

 Leicester, 280 



Lepidoptera in Sussex, 17 ; in Guernsey 

 and Sark, 75; late in 1888, 114 

 near Leicester, 114 ; in Portland 

 116; at Wimbledon, 150, 212 

 South Buckinghamshire, 165 

 Australian, 166 ; migration of, 189 

 first appearance of sexes of, 213 

 hybrid, 237 ; parasites on, 262 ; of 

 two Dorset chalk-hills, 282 ; of New 

 Forest, 283, some, abundant in, 75 



Leucophasia sinapis, 255 



Limenitis sybilla, var., 256 



Liparis dispar, malformed, 259 



Lithosia complana, 14 ; on the coast, 

 47 ; food of, 47 ; in Norfolk, 74 



Luehdorfia, description of a new species 

 of, from Japan, 25 



Luperina testacea, var. gueneei, 235 ; 

 var. nickerlii, 271 



LycasnidiH, absence of second brood of, 

 near Chatham, 46 



Lycffina corydon, female var., 160 ; 

 icarus, hermaphrodite, in York- 

 shire, 211 



Meteorological conditions, influence of 

 upon insect-life, 7 



Middlesex — Sirex juvencus in London, 

 17; law. p of Uropteryx sambucaria 

 hybernating at Stamford Hill, 113 ; 

 spring insects, 189 ; Sirex gigas at 

 Bowes Park, 237 ; Sphinx convol- 

 vuli, 258 ; Dicranura vinula near 

 Enfield, 260; Bonibus terrestris in 

 London, 263 



Migration of Lepidoptera, 189 ; of 

 dragonflies, 189 



"Mimicry" and "Protective Eesem- 

 blance " in insects, 116 



MoNiiouTHSHiRE — Ehopalocera in, 280 



Moth, parasite on, 263, 307 



Moths, double-brooded, and the cold 

 summer of 1888, 140, 164 



Mould, 122 



Nepticula minusculella, 164 



Neptunides stanleyi, 40 



New Zealand — Early season in, 19 ; 

 description of new species of 

 Arctiidie from, 53 ; Psychoda con- 

 spicillata, 164 ; sugar versus blos- 

 soms, 165 



Newspaper entomology, 117 



Noctua sobrina in Glen Artney, Perth, 235 



Norfolk — Lithosia complana, 74 ; 

 Bactra furfurana, 114 



Notes from the Xonli-west Counties, 291 



NotodomidiE, notes on the, 101 



Nyssia zonaria, food of, 113, 139, 187 



Obituary — Thomas Eedle, 58 ; Dr. 

 Victor Signoret, 144 



Ocneria dispar, 161, 162, 186 



Odontopera bid^ntata at Gt. Malvern, 73 



Orthoptera, British, 169, 195 



Oxfordshire — 'I'heclaw-album, 47, near 

 Banbury, 73 ; Vanessa urticae from 

 Thame, 72 ; Sphinx convolvuli, 258 



Oxyptilus teucrii, 75, 139 



Panolis pmiperda in Ireland, 102 



Pararge meg£era, 289 



Parasites on butterfly, 237 ; on Lepi- 

 doptera, 262 ; on moth, 263, 3i)7 ; 

 on Deilephila galii, 280, 3U6 ; on 

 Atherix ibis, 290 



Penthina postremana at Carnforth, 16 



Phigalia pedaria, early appearance at 

 Chester, 113 



Phytomyza chajrophylli, 22 ; notes 

 upon, 87 



Pieris brassicae, var., 112 ; with veins of 

 wings green, 138 ; rapiv, abnormal 

 development, 21, in February, 112 



Plusia chrysitis near Birmingham, 74 ; 

 illustris in Ireland, 46 ; ni, the 

 British, 74 



Polyommatus phloeas, diminutive, 46 ; 

 var.schmidtii, 211; nearDartford,2o7 



Portland, a year's work in, 43, 56 ; 

 Lepidoptera, 110 



Prionus coriarius in Epjjing Forest, 77, 

 114 



"Protective resemblance" and "Mi- 

 micry " in Insects, 110 



Pseudo-melanism, 188 



Psychoda conspicillata in New Zealand, 

 104 



Pterophori, contributions to history of 

 British, 29; notes upon, 102, 104 



Pup^v of insects, preserving, 77 ; forcing, 

 remarks on, 202 



Pyrales and Deltoids, new species from 

 Corea, North China, and Japan, 02 



Pyrameis cardui, aberration, 73 



Ehopalocera at Wiesbaden, 89 ; in Kent, 

 211 ; in Hampshire, lOO ; spring, in 

 Surrey, 185 ; in Monmouthshire, 

 280 ; spring, at the Eiviera, 257 



Eiviera, spring Ehopalocera at, 257 



Eochefort. in August, 19 



Sark and Guernsey, Lepidoptera, 75 



Scoparia, the genus, 10 



Scotland — Insect fauna of St. Kilda, 

 12 ; Sesia musciformis, 47 ; Deile- 

 phila galii at Glasgow, 73 ; Stigmo- 

 nota ravulana in Eenfrewshire, 114 ; 

 Hypsipetes ruberata in Aberdeen- 

 shire, 187 ; Agrotis lucernea in Kin- 

 cardineshire, 235 ; Noctua sobrina 

 in Glen Artney, Perth, 235 ; Cram- 

 bus furcatellus in Sutherlandshire, 

 23ii ; Sphinx convolvuli, 259 ; Acro- 

 nycta leporina in Penhshire, 2(j0 ; 

 Colias edu-.a in Aberdeenshire, 279 



Sehirus duiiius, Scoj)., at Horsley, 

 Surrey, 214 



Sericoris urticana, var, rufa, 103 



Sesia andreniformis at Dover, 211 ; 

 ichneuraoniformis in Gloucester- 



