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CONTENTS. 



PART I. 



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 Introduction iii 



I. Observations on a mode practised in Italy of excluding the Com- 

 mon House-fly from Apartments. By William Spence, Esq., F.R.S., 

 &c., Honorary Member of the Entomological Society 1 



II. Remarks on the Passage in Herodotus referred to in Mr. Spence's 

 Paper, read at the April Meeting. By W. B. Spence, Esq., M.E.S. 

 France, For. Sec. Ent. Soc 7 



III. Descriptions of some hitherto uncharacterized exotic Coleojitera, 

 chiefly from New Holland. By the Rev. F. W. Hope, M.A., F.R.S., 

 L.S., &c 11 



IV. Explanation of the sudden appearance of the Web-s])innin"- 

 Blight of the Apple, Hawthorn, &c. By R. H. Lewis, Esq., M.E.S. . 21 



V. Description of the Larva and Pupa of Raphidia Opklopsk. By 



G. R. Waterhouse, Esq., Curator of the Entomological Society . . 23 



VI. Descriptions of the Larvae and Pupce of various species of Co- 

 leopterous Insects. By G. R. Waterhouse, Esq., Curator of the En- 

 tomological Societ}"^ 27 



VII. Description of a minute Coleopterous Insect, forming the type 

 of a new Subgenus allied to Tomicus, with some Observations upon the 

 Affinities of the Xylophaga. By J. O. Westwood, F.L.S., &c. ... 34 



VIII. Remarks on a species of Calandra, occurring in the Stones of 

 Tamarinds. By William Curisty, Jun., Esq., F.L.S., Memb. Ent. 

 Soc, &c 3G 



IX. Description of the Nest of a gregarious species of Butterfly from 

 Mexico. By J. O. Westwood, F.L.S., &c 38 



X. Descriptions of several Species of Australian Phasmata. By 

 George Robert Gray, Esq., M.E.S. France and London 45 



XI. Descriptions of some new Genera of British Homoptera. By 



R. H. Lewis, Esq., M.E.S 47 



XII. A few Observations upon the Habits of the Indigenous Acn- 

 leate llymenoptera, suggested by M. de St. Fargeau's Paper upon the 

 Genus Goryfes, in the first Number of the ' Annales de la Societe En- 

 tomologique de France.' By W. E. Shuckard, Esq., M.E.S. ... 52 



