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CONTENTS. 



Sandalus segnis, a Japauese species, 315 

 Satyrus, genus, suggested classification, 



244 

 Sciopteron tabaniformis, 101 

 Scoparia angustea, notes on, 318; the 



genus, 17 



Scotland — A. atropos, 324 ; S. convol- 



vuli, 303 ; Argyleshire, Diurni, 301 ; 



Dumfriesshire, M. stellatarum, 271 



Season, in Kent, 174 ; the backward, 161 



Sesia andreniformis in Gloucestershire, 



108 ; tipuliformis at Chester, 272 

 Sesiidffi, 101 

 Setting under sides of Rhopaloeera 



(lig.). 320 

 Sexes of Lepidopterous larvae, 87 

 Sheopshiee — South, Argynnis adippe, 



209 

 Silk-producing Bombyces, 127, 152 

 Sirex gigas in North Wales, 285 ; juven- 

 cus at Chichester, 44 ; near Man- 

 chester, 233 ; at Oldham, 308 

 SoMEESETSHiRE — PieridaB, abundance, 

 227 ; Cheddar, Lyctena astrarche, L. 

 minima, and Choerocampa porcellus, 

 209 ; Somerset, Lepidoptera, 42 

 South Kensington Museum, Practical 



Entomology, 162 

 Sphinx convolvuli at Crouch End, 16 ; 

 at Lewes, 16 ; in Middlesex, 64, 304 ; 

 in Essex, 230, 303 ; at Windsor, 230 ; 

 in France, 230 ; in Cumberland, 

 272; in Lancashire, 272, 324; in 

 Yorkshire, 272, 303 ; in Dorsetshire, 

 304 ; in Buckinghamshire, 273 ; in 

 Cambridgeshire, 273, 324 ; in Kent, 

 273 ; in Warwickshire, 273 ; in 

 Sussex, 273, 304 ; in Worcestershire, 

 273 ; in Hampshire, 274, 304, 324 ; in 

 Surrey, 274, 324; in Scotland, 303; 

 in Staffordshire, 303 ; in Suffolk, 

 273, 303; in Lincolnshire, 303; 

 abundant in France, 304 

 Staffoedshiee — Sphinx convolvuli, 303 

 Stag-beetle in the Midlands, 44 

 Stauropus fagi, 290 

 Strenia clathrata at Slough, 233, 307 

 Suffolk — Sphinx convolvuli, 273, 303 

 Sugaring, favourable nights for, 66 ; 



new method, 164 

 Sunny corner, 268 



Suerey — Apamea ophiogramma, 239 ; 

 Catocala fraxini, 325 ; Colias edusa, 

 64 ; Balham, Vanessa antiopa, 321 ; 

 Croydon and district, Tortrices, 31 ; 

 Haslemere, Lita knaggsiella. 111, 

 Sphinx convolvuli, 274, 324 ; Putney, 

 Sphinx convolvuli, 274 

 Sussex — Catephia alchymista, 325 ; Rho- 

 paloeera, 69 ; Vanessa c-album, 136, 

 302 ; Chichester, Sirex juvencus, 44 ; 

 Groombridge, Lycsena corydon away 

 from chalk, 323 ; Hastings, Choero- 



campa celerio, 16 ; Keymer, Sphinx 

 convolvuli, 304 ; Lewes, Sphinx con- 

 volvuli, 16, 273 ; St. Leonards, Colias 

 edusa, 15, Vanessa antiopa, 136 ; 

 Tilgate, D. bicuspis, 325 ; Worthing, 

 Argynnis paphia, 228 

 Synchloe johnstoui, 68 

 Tapinoma melauocephalum, 184 

 Tephrosia biundularia, 182 ; crepuscu- 



laria, 159, 182 

 Tephrosia question, the, 326 

 Tineola biselliella, longevity of larva, 283 

 Tortrices of Croydon and district, 31 

 Trigonophora flammea bred, 17 

 Tripha3na interjecta, habits, 41, 64 

 Trijihosa dubitata, 204 

 Trochilium apiformis, 99 ; crabronifor- 



mis (bembeciformis), 100 

 Tropiphorus obtusus, new to Britain, 331 

 Vanessa antiopa with white borders, 

 135 ; in Sussex, 136 ; with yellow 

 borders, 156, 228 ; larvre in Eng- 

 land, 156 ; notes on, 176 ; c-album 

 in North Worcestershire, 136, in 

 Sussex, 136, 302 ; urticffi, 209, at 

 Balham, 322 

 Vanessa, genus, suggested classification, 



244 

 Varietal nomenclature, a code of, 150 

 Varieties of Angeroua prunaria, breed- 

 ing, 36 ; of Arctia caia, breeding, 

 109 ; of Lycicna corydon, 266 

 Variety of Venilia macularia, 41 ; of 

 Abraxas grossularia, 278 ; of Ma- 

 caria liturata, 279 

 Wales — North, Sirex gigas, 285, Parnas- 

 sius delius, 301 ; North-west, Zygiena 

 minos, 210 ; South, Calandra pal- 

 marum, 44, Plusia interrogationis, 

 276 

 Waewickshiee — Agrion minima and A. 

 pumilio, 285 ; Birmingham, Sphinx 

 convolvuli, 273 ; North, Cirrhoedia 

 xerampelina, 210 ; North, Euchloe . 

 cardamines, 209 ; Wyre Forest, Cor- 

 dulegaster annulatus, 285 

 WiLTSHiEE — Noctua depuncta, 305 

 Woecestershiee — Sphinx convolvuli, 

 273 ; Lucanus cervus, 44 ; North, 

 Leucophasia sinapis, 209, Vanessa 

 c-album, 130 ; Worcester, Cirrhoedia 

 xeram^Delina, 276 

 Xanthia fulvago vai: flavescens, 277 

 Xestobium tessellatum at Sunbury, 114 

 Xylina lambda (zinckenii), 203 

 YoEKSHiRE — Sphinx convolvuli, 272, 

 303 ; Scarborough, Acronycta alni, 

 275; Sheffield, Lepidoptera during 

 1886, 42 

 Zeuzera pyrina feeding in birch-wood, 

 108 ; in London, 137 ; in March, 

 137 ; in Middlesex, 137 

 Zygcuna minos in Wales, 210 



