VI 



CONTENTS. 



Dorsetshire — Anosia plexippus, 305, 

 Aporophila nigra, 299, Gonepteryx 

 rhamni, 21, 73, Lyerena argiades 

 (n. Brit, sp.), 249, Vanessa antiopa, 

 293 

 Dryinus formicarius at Shiere, 220 

 DuKHAM — Hartlepool, Choerocampa 

 nerii, 218 



Entomological Societies. -Cambridge, 

 128 ; North Kent, 174 ; London, royal 

 charter for, 237 ; South London, 

 268, 328 ; Haggerston, 327 

 ' Entomologist ' List, 10 

 Ephippiphora obscurana, 173 

 Epischnia farrella in Norfolk, 172 

 Erastria veuustula, 243 

 Eremobia ochroleuca abundant at 



Gravesend, 244 

 Eriogaster lanestris, 121 

 Eriopeltis festucfe, a scale-insect new to 



Britain, 286 

 Errata, 24, 56, 79, 152, 303 

 Essex — Chcerocampa celerio, 294, 

 Pyrameis huntera not in (correction), 

 24 ; Dovercourt, Sphinx con volvuli and 

 Choerocampa celerio, 261 ; Epping 

 Forest during 1884, 88, notes from, 

 201, Lycsena corydon, 242, Pfedisca 

 oppressana, 245, Ochsenheimeria vac- 

 culella, 264 ; Harwich, Acherontia 

 atropos, 258 ; Walthamstow, Sphinx 

 convolvuli, 260 ; Walton-on-the- 

 Naze, Choerocamjja celerio, 294 

 Euphrasia catena near Nottingham, 167 

 Eupithecia, collecting the genus, 108, 

 139 ; curzoni, 52, 76 ; linariata, 

 double-brooded, 51 ; nanata, varia- 

 tion of, 75 

 Exchanging, 23, 48, 50, 77, 126, 127 



Flies, a pest of, 220 

 Fossil insects, 196 

 Fruit V. sugar, 160 



Gall collecting, notes on, 173 

 Gall-gnats, a year's work among, 36, 311 

 Geotrupes stercorarius, economy of, 325 

 Gloucestershire — Berkeley, Choero- 

 campa celerio, 165 

 Goniodoma, the genus, 112 

 Gonepteryx rhamni in Dorsetshire, 21, 



73 ; on pink llowers, 300 

 Grapholitha (?) csecana, 122 ; at Deal, 

 218 ; discovery of larva, 218 



Hampshire — Apatura iris, 284, Deiopeia 

 pulcliella, 298 ; Andover, Colias edusa, 

 300 ; Bournemouth, local list of in- 

 sects, 79, Chcerocampa celerio, 294, 

 Sphinx convolvuli, 296 ; Christchurch, 

 Sphinx convolvuli, 258, C. celerio, 262, 

 C. celerio abundant, 296, autumn 

 sugaring, 301 ; Lyndhurst, Colias 



edusa near, 241 ; New Forest, "Tres- 

 passers will be prosecuted," 303, 311, 

 past season, 319, Rhopalocera, 282 

 Heliothis peltigera in Yorkshke, 264 

 Hepialus liumuli, late appearance, 21 ; 



in Sej^tember, 123 

 Hermaphodite^Lepidoptera, 168 

 Herts — Ware, Colias edusa, 241 

 Huntingdonshire — Acherontia atropos, 

 258 



Ichneumonidje, introductory papers on, 



13, 100, 205 

 Ichneumons bred, other than from 



Lepidoptera, 152 

 Ireland — Cork, Lepidoptera, 123 ; 

 South, Lepidoptera, 321 



Japanese insects, relation between 

 British and, 325 



Kent — Acherontia atropos, abundance, 

 72, Choerocampa celerio, 294, Lepi- 

 doptera, 70 ; North, Entomological 

 Society, 174 ; abundance of Colias 

 edusa and Vanessa cardui, 293, re- 

 appearance of Vanessa io, 315 ; Brom- 

 ley, Lepidoptera in 1883, 20, 56 ; 

 Chislehurst, Trijahaena ianthina, 300 ; 

 Cudliam, Colias edusa and Ere- 

 mobia ochroleuca, 257 ; Deal, Argyro- 

 lepia mussehliaua, 218, Graj^holitha 

 caecana, 218 ; Folkestone, Deiopeia 

 pulchella, 262 ; Gravesend, Eremobia 

 ochroleuca abundant, 244 ; Greenwich, 

 Myelois ceratoni®, 54 ; Maidstone, 

 Sphinx convolvuli, 260 ; Eamsgate, 

 Choerocampa celerio, 261 ; Rother- 

 hithe. Sphinx convolvuli, 259 ; Seven- 

 oaks, Colias edusa, 241 ; Sidcup and 

 Footscray, Sphinx convolvuli, 260 ; 

 Tunbridge Wells, Taeniocampa leuco- 

 grapha, 168, Liparis monacha, 263 



Lancashire — Bury, Sphinx convolvuli, 



295 ; Crosby, Choerocampa celerio, 



262 ; Preston, stray notes, 266 ; 



Southport, Lepidoptera, 300 



Leicestershire — Leicester, Sphinx 



convolvuli, 259 

 Leioptilus osteodactylus, 99 

 Light, Lepidoi^tera at, in 1884, 74 

 Lighthouses in 1884, notes on insects, 



267 

 Limneria, 104 



Liothula omnivora, life-history, 153 

 Liparis monacha at Tunbridge Wells, 



263 

 List of insects, local, Bournemouth dis- 

 trict, 79 

 Luperina gueneei, 54 ; dumerilii, 54, 



73, 74 

 Lycaena argiades new to Britain, fig., 

 250, in Somerset, 292, note, 293 ; 



