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CONTENTS. 



PAGR 



Explanation of the Plates . . . . . . . . . . . . viii 



Errata . . . . . . . . . . . . . • . . . . viii 



List of Members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix 



Additions to the Library .. .. .. .. .. .. xvii 



MEMOIRS, 



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 I. On a Collection of Lepidojytera from Cachar, N. E. India. 



By Arthur G. CuTLEK, F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c I 



II. Descriptions of the species of the Lepidopterous genus 



Kalllma. By Frederic Moore, F.Z.S 9 



III. Description of a new genns and species of Rhyncophorons 



Coleoptera, allied to Sijialns, found in an orchid house. 

 By Chas. O. Waterhouse ..17 



IV. On the Lepidopteva of the Amazons, collected by Dr. jAMES 



W. H. Trail, during the years 1873 to 1875. By Arthur 



Gardiner Butler, F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c 19 



V. On some Coleoptera from the Hawaiian Islands. By D. 



Sharp 77 



VI. On some new or little known British Hymenoptera. By P. 



Cameron .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 107 



VII. Descriptions of new species of Hemiptera, collected by Dr. 

 Stoliczka during the Forsyth Expedition to Kashgar in 



1873—74. By W. L. Distant 121 



VIII. Observations of the effects of low Temperatures on Larvse. 



By Eleanor A. Ormerod, F.M.S. 127 



IX. Notes on the Cases of some South Brazilian Trichoptera. 



By Dr. Fritz MiJLLER 131 



X. Morphological Notes bearing on the Origin of Insects. By 

 J. Wood-Mason, F.G.S., F.L.S., F.Z.S., Deputy Superin- 

 tendent, Indian Museum, and sometime Professor of Com- 

 parative Anatomy, Medical College, Calcutta . . . . 145 

 XL Description of a new Goliath beetle from Tropical West 



Africa. By D. Greig Rutherford, F.L.S. .. .. 1G9 

 XII. An attempt to point out the differential characters of some 

 closely -allied species of Chrijsomelu, principally those con- 

 tained in Suffrian's 11th group; also descriptions of some 

 hitherto uncharacterized forms belonging to the same and 

 other genera of the family. By Joseph S. Baly, F.L.S. . . 171 



XIII. A Decade of new CetoniidcB. By J. O. Westwood, M.A., 



F.L.S., &c ..199 



XIV. Contributions to a knowledge of the Hemipterous Fauna of 



Madagascar. By W. L. Distant 209 



XV. On some unusual monstrous Insects. By J. O. Westwood, 



M.A., F.L.S., &c ..219 



XVI. Observations sur les Lepidopteres des iles Sangir, et descrip- 

 tions de quelques especes nouvelles. By C. Oberthur . . 229 



XVII. Descriptions of Phytophagous Coleoptera belonging to the 

 families Chrysomelldce and Galeruvid(S, from Peru. By 

 Joseph S. Baly,' F.L.S ..235 



XVIII. Descriptions of two new Lepidoptera. of the famil v SpMngidcs. 



By Arthur G. Butler, F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c. " . . . . 2G1 



