CONTENTS. vil 
rious varieties, 273; West Sussex, 
312 
Lepidopterous egg-parasites, 44; larva, 
an African, with plate, 97; ova, 
rapid hatching, 209, 257. 
Lobophora viretata, 181, 211 ; food, 255. 
Localities for beginners, 201, 226. 
Lost Lepidoptera, 136. 
Lycena argiades, some observations on, 
5 ; non-occurrence of spring-brood, 
230; argiolus in the Midlands, 13, 
29, 61, 62 ; both monogoneutic and 
digoneutic, 50; food and second 
brood, 62, 88, 89; in the New 
Forest, 122; double-brooded, 122; 
in North Kent, 123; further note, 
154; in Somersetshire, 155; bel- 
largus, variety, 248; remarkable 
variety, 176; icarus, remarkably 
small, 63; minima, resting habit, 
208 ; 
Macro-lepidoptera near Weston-super- 
Mare, 38 
Malay Peninsula, description of new 
species, and a new genus from, 11. 
Malposition of imago in pupa-case, 
Melanippe montanata, variety, 283 
Melitwa athalia, variations, 145; food- 
plants, 156, 247; locality, 177; 
aurinia in Shropshire, 41 
Miana captiuncula (expolita )at Arnside, 
253 
Micro-lepidoptera notes on, 101, 293; in 
1886, 244 
MrppLEesex—Fauna, 65 ; Lepidoptera in, 
134 ; Coleoptera, 187; Chiswick, lepi- 
doptera, 135, natural history of, 185 ; 
Highgate, Geometra papilionaria at, 
65, 92 
Migration of insects, 140 
Mixodia ratzburghiana in Surrey, 
Moth traps, 45, 69, 138, 139, 186 ; baits 
—Heracleum flowers, 289 
Natural History of Chiswick, 185. 
Nemeobius lucina, locality, 177 
Nemeophila plantaginis, double-brooded, 
231 
Nepticula myrticella feeding on poly- 
pody, 43 
Neptis consimilis, 86 
Newbury, notes from, 289 
New Forest, Easter week in, 163 
Newspaper entomology, 140 
Noctua subrosea, 137 
North Cornwall, a month in, 291 
Notodonta dict#a in autumn, 42 
Nymphalide, 11 
Oxsituary—Thomas Edward, 144; John 
Arthur Power, M.D., 192, with plate, 
193; Henry Willitts, 264 
Ochsenheimeria vasculella, 303 
Ocneria dispar, 250, 281, 282 
(Enecta pilleriana, 256 
Orgyia antiqua, late autumn emergence, 
127 
Ornithoptera priamus var. pronomus, 
84 
Ova, perforated, 18, 68 
Pdisca (Mixodia) ratzeburghiana in 
Surrey, 303 
Pairing of Epinephele ianira and E. 
hyperanthes, 230 
Papilio polydorus, 35, 85 » 
PEMBROKESHIRE, Anosia plexippus, 298 
Penthina postremana, breeding, 251 
PERTHSHIRE, Psyche opacella and Stilbia 
anomala, 304 
Phlogophora meticulosa at Christmas, 65 
Phorodesma smaragdaria in Essex, 211 
Pieris brassicw, in the Midlands, 174; 
unusual abundance of the larva, 
299; rape as a colonist, 41; with 
angular wings, 60; scarcity, 247 
Plusia festuce, 209; pulchrina, 180 
Polia flavicincta, habits of the larva, 
91; food of the larva, 128 
Proctotrypes ater (figs.) bred from larva 
of Creophilus maxillosus, 225 
Pseudopsis sulcatus, 69 
Psyche opacella at Rannoch, 304 
Pterophorus paludum, 256 
Ptocheuusa (Gelechia) subocellea feed- 
ing on thyme, 304 
Pupe, forcing, 68; 
atropos, 125 
of Acherontia 
Rearing larve, 164, 186, 234 
Resting habit of Vanessa atalanta, 60, 
123; of Lycena minima, 208 
Rhinopalpa sabina, 86 
Rhopalocera, descriptions of new spe- 
cies and a new genus from the 
Malay Peninsula, 11; European, 20 
Rip van Winkle, an entomologieal, 46 
Sallow-bloom, captures at, 136 
ae pavonia, abnormal emergence, 
51 
Scoparia, variation in the genus, 129 
Scortanp—Apamea connexa in, 231; 
Sphinx pinastri in, 64; Aberdeen- 
shire, Sphinx conyolvuli, 249; Argyll- 
shire, Lepidoptera at North Knap- 
dale, 54; Hoy Island, Bombyx 
quercus, 157 
Season of 1885 in Ireland, 1 
Sesia ichneumoniformis in Cambridge- 
shire, 231; tipuliformis, 90 
SHETLAND—Acherontia atropos in, 279 
SHRopsHIRE—Melitxa aurinia, 41 
Silkworm, Tusser, rearing, 110 
Simiskina fulgens, 12 
Sirex juvencus in Yorkshire, 283 
Smerinthus ocellatus, 250; 
populi, 
variety, 126 
