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



Errata viii 



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



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



MEMOIRS. 



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I. Additional notes on the genus Colias. By H. J. Elwes, 



F.L.S., F.Z.S. 1 



II. Notes upon, or suggested by, the colours, markings, and 



isrotective attitudes of certain lepidopterous larvfe and 



pupae, and of a phytoi^hagous hymenopterous larva. By 

 Edward B. Poulton, M.A. . . . . . . . . . . 27 



III. On the classification of Australian Pyralidina. By E. 



Meyeick, B.A. 59 



IV. On a new species of the genus Orthezia. By J. W. 



Douglas. . . . . . . . ■ . • • . • ■ 81 



V. Note on the PapUio polydecta of Cramer. By Lionel de 



NiCEVILLE. . . . . . . . . . . . - . . 87 



VI. Note on Tachyris melania of Fabricius. By W. H. Miskin. 91 



VII. Descriptions of new Australian Rhopalocera. By W. H. 



Miskin. • • • • 93 



VIII. Further notes on the caprification of domestic figs, with 

 reference to Dr. Paul Mayer's notes thereon. By Sir 

 Sidney S. Saunders, C.M.G 97 



IX. On the " Pediculus Melittce'' of Kirby and its affinities, 

 with reference to the larvae of Meloe. By Sir Sidney S. 

 Saunders, C.M.G 107 



X. North American Tortricidce. By Lord Walsingham, M.A., 



F.Z.S.,&c 121 



XI. Notes on two AustraHan species of Trigona. By Harold 



J. HOCKINGS. . . . . ■ • • • • • • • . • 149 



XII. Synopsis of the British Hymenoptcra-Aculeata ; part III., 



Apidce. By Edw-^rd Saunders, F.L.S. . . . . . . 159 



XIII. Further notes on the terminal segments of Aculeate Hyme- 



noptera. By Edward Saunders, F.L.S. .. .. .. 251 



XIV. Notes on the Diptcra of New Zealand, supplementary to 



Professor Hutton's last Catalogue of 1881. By W. F. 

 Kirby, Assistant in the Zoological Department of the 

 British Museum 269 



XV. On the classification of Australian Pyralidina. By E. 



Meyrick, B.A 277 



XVI. The lepidopterous genus Cocytia. By Arthur G. Butler, 



F.L.S., F.Z.S. , Ac 351 



