v1 CONTENTS. . 
Habits of Ranatra linearis 142 
Hadena assimilis 84; and Crymodes 
exulis, identity 107 
Hematera, genus 123 
Haggerston Entomological Society 256 ; 
annual exhibition 299 
Halias clorana 217 
»  prasinana 217 
»»  quercana 217 
Harpiphorus lepidus 144 
Hedychrum bred from gall of Cynips 
Hemiteles creator 114 
Hesperia comma 4 
Homalus ceruleus 118 
1 (Hedychrum) auratus 118 
Hydrilla palustris 19 
Hydrous caraboides, nest and eggs 215 
5 piceus, nest 216 
Hymenoptera, notes on 14; in Norfolk 
54; bred from Cynips Kollari galls 
113 
“Hymenoptéres d’Europe et d’Algérie, 
Species des”’ (veview) 135 
Hypanis, Ilythia 14 
Hyria auroraria 98 
Insect development, effects of tempera- 
ture on 137; hunting in Abbot’s Wood 
155 
‘Insects, Injurious, Notes of Observa- 
tions of’ (review) 136 
Insects taken and bred in 1878, 86; 
flower-haunting, brilliancy 130; 
abundance 180; injurious 231; sug- 
gested remedy for 274; appearance 
during the present season 295 
Instinct, alleged, of mosquitoes 274 
Kallima, genus 11 
Lamprotatus 117 
Laphygma exigua in the Isle of Portland 
181; taken at hght 182; at Torquay 
182 
Larva of Spilodes palealis, description 17 ; 
of Anchocelis lunosa, hybernation 
19; of Collix sparsata 58; of Stau- 
ropus fagi 120; of Emmelesia 
alchemillata 128 ; of Nemotois Schif- 
fermillerella 183; of Rhodophea 
formosella 206 ; of Chcerocampa por- 
cellus, unusual food for larva 250; 
of Acroncyta alni 201 
Larve, aquatic Dipterous 87; butterfly 
181; gooseberry and currant bushes 
attacked by 231; of Dicranura bicuspis 
250; late, of Pyrameis cardui 295 
‘ Lectures, Scientific ’ (review) 275 
Lepidoptera, introductory papers on 11, 
81, 92, 123. 145; taken near York 
106; the weather and its effects on 
179, 202, 229; taken in 1879, 252; of 
Kollari 24° 
the New Forest, effect of the wet 
sunless season on 269; at Guildford 
272; at Yarmouth and Lowestoft 295 
Lepidopterist’s guide to Lyndhurst 75, 96, 
120 
Lepidopterists, winter occupation for 238 
Leptogramma literana 219 
a5 scabrana 219 
Leucania extranea in Cornwall 19 
» | phragmitidis 79 
i straminea near Staines 255 
Life-histories of sawflies 4, 101, 149, 171 
Lithosia mesomella in the New Forest 272 
Lithosiide in the New Forest 205 
Localities for beginners:— Wanstead Flats 
162; Riddlesdown 188 ; Darenth 209 ; 
Loughton 233; Wickham 259 
Lophyrus virens 4 
Lubbock, Sir John, ‘ Scientific Lectures’ 
(review) 275 
Lucinia, genus 148 
Lyczena Adonis 220 
Agestis 4; vars. (with figs.) 185 
Alexis 4; hermaphrodite 58 
» Arion and the late season 220 
»  Betica 83, 154 
» Corydon 121; at Lewes 251 
Lycenide, protective habit 84 
Lyda clypeata 101 
Lyndhurst, Lepidopterist’s guide to 75, 
96, 120; further remarks on 166 
99 
Megastigmus stigmaticans 117 
Melanthia ocellata, early appearance 205 
Mesoleius formosus 115 
Microgaster from Pieris rape 62 
Micro-Lepidoptera, two new 55; in the 
neighbourhood of Plumstead 60; a 
new 80 
Moncreiffe, Sir Thomas, Bart., death 232 
Mosquitoes, alleged instinct 274 
Moth, parthenogenesis in a 229 
Moths caught in the blooms of the bur- 
dock 255 
Myscelia Orsis 93 
Nemotois Schiffermillerella, larva 183; 
bred 206 
Nepticula lapponica (Wocke), a species 
new to Britain 80 
Nervous system of insects, anatomical 
and morphological researches 291 
New Forest, notes from the 295 
Nica, genus 94 
Nonagria brevilinea at Monk’s Wood 251 
‘ Notes of Observations of Injurious In- 
sects’ (review) 136 
Nymphalide 11, 81, 92, 123, 145 
Nymphaline 11, 81, 92, 123, 145 
Nyssia zonaria in Epping Forest 108 
Oak-galls, undescribed (with illustra- 
tions) 193 
