C O N T E N T S. 



Oporabia aiitumnata from Eannoch, with reference to several other Related 

 Forms (with plates), Louis B. Prout, 53. New Insects from Arizona, and a 

 New Bee from Mexico, T. D. A. CocJcerell, 61. Variation of Emydia cribrum, 

 L., in England, Bichard South, 67. Note on Anthoeharis, T. A. Chapman, 

 69. Notes on Jamaican Ehynchota. — No. 2, G. W. Kirhaldy, 70. British 

 Dragonflies of the older English Authors, W. J. Lucas, 74. Notes on the 

 Great Earwig and other British Forficulidse, C. W. Dale, 75. On iEgaleus 

 bechuana, a new Species of Cimicidse, reported to injure Coffee-berries in 

 British Central Africa, G. W, Kirhaldy, 77. A Catalogue of the Lepidoptera 

 of Ireland, W. F, de Vismes Kane, 79. On the Moult to Pupa in Pterophorus, 

 T. A. Chaxnnan, 82. Note on the Coccid Genus Oudablis, Signoret, T. D. A. 

 Cocherell, 85. 



Notes and Observations. — A Second Generation of Vanessa io, Linn. ; Earwigs 

 Beneficial ; The Flavour of Caterpillars, G. W. K., 87. Oporabia autumnata, 

 William M. Christy, 88. Notes on the Nymph of iEschna cyanea, Arthur 

 East, 88. ^scbna grandis on the "Wing at Dusk, A. H. Hamm, 88. Setting 

 Relaxed Insects, J. C. Warburg, 89. British Orthoptera, Malcolm Burr, 89. 

 Collecting and Rearing Dragonflies, &c., W, J. Lucas, 89. The use of 

 " Formalin " as a Preservative of Insects, W. S. Gilles, 90. 



Captures and Field Reports. — Colias hyale in 1899, S. A.Blenkarn, 91. Sphinx 

 convolvuli in 1899, John P. Hyde, 91. Early Occurrence of Anisopteryx 

 sescularia, (Bev.) Gilbert H. Baynor, 91. iEschna cyanea, W. L. Distant, 91. 

 Mamestra furva, Jaynes G. Haggart, 92. Dwarf Vanessa atalanta, Alan W. 

 Cardinall, 92. Thamnotrizon cinereus in the New Forest ; Note on Phlogo- 

 phora meticulosa, C. W. Colthrup, 92. Captures at Electric Light in Chester 

 District, T. H. Court, 92. Lepidoptera at Light in 1899. Philip J. Barraud, 

 92. Lepidoptera in 1899, E. T. B. Beece, 93. Larvae-beating in 1899 com- 

 pared with 1898, -B. W.Lane, 94:. Notes from Nottingham, Oscar Whittaker, 95. 



Societies, 95. Recent Literature, 99. 



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