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CONTENTS 



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Explanation of the Plates . . . viii 



Errata ^i" 



List of Members ix 



Additions to the Library .. .. ' .. .. •• •• x.vu 



MEMOIRS 



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I. Heterocerous Lepidoj)tera collected in Chili by Thomas 



Edmonds, Esq. By Arthur G. Butler, F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c. 1 



11. On a small collection of Lepidoptera from the Hawaiian 



Islands. By Arthur G. Butler, F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c. . . 31 



III. Descriptions of the insects infesting the seeds of Ficus 



Sycomorus and Carica. By J. O. Westwood, M.A., 

 F.L.S., &c ^7 



IV. On the classification of tbe Adephaga, or carnivorous series 



of Coleoptera. By D. Sharp. 61 



V. On some New Zealand Coleoptera. By D. Sharp 73 



VI. Additional notes on Bombyces collected in Chili by Mr. 



Edmonds. By Arthur G."Butler, F.L.S., F.Z.S, &c. . . 101 

 VII. On the terminal ventral segments of the abdomen in Pro- 



sopis, and other Anthophila. By Edward Saunders, F.L.S. 109 

 VIII. Heterocerous Lepidoptera collected in Chili by Thomas 



Edmonds, Esq. By Arthur G. Butli r, F.L.S., F.Z.S. , &c: 113 

 IX. Further additions to Mr. Marshall's Catalogue of British 



Ichneumonidce. By John B. Bridgman. . . . . . . lil 



X. Synopsis of British Hymenoptera. Diploptera and Antho- 

 phila ; part I. to end of Andrenidce. By Edward 



Saunders, F.L.S 165 



XI. Notes on the Euchalcis vetusta, Dufour (Fam. Ghaleididai) ; 



and on the terminal segments of the females in Halticella 



and its allies. By Sir Sidney Saunders, C.M.G. . . 291 



XII. On the supposed abnormal habits of certain species of Eury- 



tomides. a frroup of the Hymenopterous family Chalcididce. 



By J. 0. Westwood, M.A., F.L.S., &c 



XIII. A Revised List of British Trichoptera, brought down to 

 date ; compiled with especial regard to the ' Catalogue of 

 British Neuroptera,' published by the Society in 1870. By 



Egbert M'Lachlan, F.R.S., F.L.S., &c 



XIV. Descriptions of new species and a new genus of Gicadidce 



from Madagascar. By W. L. Distant. .... . . 335 



XV. Heterocerous Lepidoptera collected in Chili by Thomas 



Edmonds, Esq. By Arthur G. Butler, F.L.S., F.Z.S., (fee. 389 

 XVI. North American Coleophorce. By Lord Walsingham, M.A., 



F.Z.S 129 



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329 



