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An Aberration of Melitsea didyma, H. Bowland-Brown, 153. Two New Australian 

 Culicids, Fred. V. Theobald, 154. On tlie Parasitic Hymenoptera and Ten 

 thredinidae collected by Mr. Edward "Whymper on tlie " Great Andes of th 

 Equator," P. Cameron, 158. A List of the Lepidoptera of Roxburghshire. 

 W. Benton, 162. On Butterflies collected by Major E. M. Woodward in British] 

 East Africa, Emily Mary Sharpe, 166. Descriptions of some New Species and 

 a New Genus of Chrysomelidae from South America, Martin Jacoby, 169. 



Notes and Ouservations. — Further Note on Liphyra brassolis ; Attacks of Parasites 

 on Vanessa Pupae, 2\ A. Chapman, 170. On the Urticating Properties of 

 certain Moth Cocoons, E. Ernest Green, 171. Australian Lepidoptera and 

 Sugar ; Epidemic among Caterpillars, Frank M. Littler, 172. National Col- 

 lection of British Lepidoptera, 173. The name Micropyga, T.D. A. Cockerell, 

 173. Birds attacking Lepidoptera, C. W. Colthrup, 173. 



Captures and Fikld Reports. — Spring Notes (1903) in Wilts and Hants, F. M. B. 

 Carr, 173. 



Recent Literature, 175. 



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