CONTENTS. 



Two New Species of Lepidoptera from the Wady el Natron, Egypt (with Plate), 

 William Warren, 225. Notes on Geometra vernaria, G. M. Russell, 227. 

 Notes on the Plumules of Buttei'flies, 228. On the Nomenclature of the I 

 Genera of the Rhynchota; Heteroptera and Auchenorrhynchous Homoptera, 

 G. W. Kirkaldy, 230. Descriptions of Ten New Species and Nine New! 

 Genera of Ichueumonidae from India, Ceylon, and Japan, P. Cameron, 233. 



Notes and Observations, 241. Captures and Field Eeports, 242. 



Obituary, 248. 



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