CONTENTS. 



xxvii 



ALPHABETICAL LIST OF SUBJECTS. 



Abdomen of earwig, worm in 263 

 Acherontia Atropos at Folkestone 276 

 Aci(]alia emarginata 206 

 Acronycta Alni at Stratford-on-Avon 

 20; bred 204; in Carmarthenshire 

 id. ; larva, near Derby 232 ; near 

 Retford id.; at Edwinstowe 276 

 ,, auricoma 208 



„ strigosa 204 



Aculeate Hymenoptera 173 

 ^schna mixta at Norwood 162 

 Agrotera nemoralis, life-history 179; 



near Heme 208 

 Agrotis pyrophila at Stratford-on- 

 Avon 20 

 ,, saucia at York 20 

 ,, tritici and Agrotis aquiiina 

 169, 210 

 Anatomy, insect 185 

 Andricus burgundus 74 

 „ circulans 51 

 „ crispator 268 

 „ Cydoniae 251 

 „ curvator 195 

 „ ,, var. axillaris 51 



„ inflator 50 

 „ multiplicatus 220 

 „ nitidus 246 

 „ petioli 219 

 „ terminalis 28, 34 

 „ testaceipes 219 

 „ urnffiformis 194 

 Anthomyia pluvialis 40 

 Ants 94 ; swarms of 234 



,, and Imbauba trees 67 

 Apatura Iris in Huntingdonshire 230 

 Aphilothrix Clementinse 2 

 „ corticalis 143 



,, Glandulee 1 



Aphis sp. 42 

 Arctia fuliginosa, larvse 70 



,, rubiginosa, injury to linen in 

 bleach-fields by larvae 42 

 Argynnis Adippe, hermaphrodite 203 

 Dia 69 

 ,, Lathonia at Hastings 275 

 Niobe 21 

 Asthenia pygmseana 92, 141 

 Attacus, remarkable species 162 

 Atypus Sulzeri in the North of Lon- 

 don 128 



Balaninus glandium 34 

 Bees, instinct of 130; humble, des- 

 patch of to New Zealand 142 ; 



uncertain in their appearance 169 ; 



and wa^ps 162 ; making comb in a 



hedge 260 

 Biorhiza renum 115 



„ sinaspis 117 

 Blackmore, Trovey, death of 240 

 Bombus muscorum, Mutilla europeea 



parasitic on 239 

 Bombyx Rubi, to breed 72; rearing 



the larva 205 

 Borer, Yucca, notes on 82, 108 

 Botys verticalis 278 

 Braconidse 35 



Brown, Edwin, death of 240 

 Bugs introduced into Africa by the 



Arabs 90 

 Butterflies, small, immense flight in 



the Bermudas 54, 86 ; and moths, 



how to relax 137, 152, 180 ; Japanese 



192 



Cabinets, insect, black spots on 93 

 Callimome abdominalis 37 

 „ auratus id. 



„ nigricornis 36 



,, regius 37 



CaUimorpha Hera 210; near Dover 

 263 



„ variety 25 



Caryoborus, Corozo nuts destroyed 



by 214 

 Catalogue of British Insects, new 



part 264 

 Caterpillars, preserving 139 

 Catocala Fraxini 278 

 Cecidomyia sp, ? 40 

 Chelonia villica, treatment of larvse 



during hybernation 206 

 Chcerocampa Celerio at Brighton 231 ; 

 in Berwickshire, 276; at Edwin- 

 stowe id. 



,, porcellus, larva 183 



Chortobius Davus, in search of 203 

 Cidaria populate, larva 13 



„ reticulata, larva at Winder- 

 mere 207 

 Cimbex femorata 3 

 Clostera anachoreta 232 



