THE ENTOMOLOGISTS RECORD 



AND 



JOURNAL OF VARIATION. 



Edited by J. W. TUTT, F.E.S. 



VOL. I. (with three Chromo-Litho. Plates, one Litho. Plate & Woodcuts). 



The following is a short Synopsis of some of the Contents of the Volume : 



Notes on Collecting.- 



" Assembling- " with Slauropus fagi and Amphidasys prodromaria. 

 Collecting 1 Agrotis lunigera in the Isle of Wight. 

 Spring" Beetles at hawthorn blossom. Heliophobus hispidus at Portland. 

 Notes on Lepidoptera in the Channel Islands. Attractiveness of 



Flowers. 



Callimorpha her a in South Devon. Sallow working- round Hereford. 

 Freshwater Cliffs (by water) for Setina irrorella. 

 Destructiveness of Zeuzera asculim North London. 



Records of Captures in 1890: 



Notodonta carmelita, Lyccena arion, Eulepia crtbrum. 



Caradrina anibigua, Lithosia molybdeola, Dasycampa rubiginea y 

 Plusia moneta, Lithosia caniola, DianthcEcia c&sia, 



Leucania vitellma, Deilephila gain, Polia nigrocincta. 



And Notes of all New Species that have been added to the British Lists. 



Popular Articles: 



On Killing Lepidoptera. How to keep Pupae through the Winter. 

 Collectors and Collections. " Setting " Lepidoptera. 

 " Sugaring." Retrospect of a Lepidopterist for 1890. 



Collecting Notes from all parts of the British Islands. 



Practical Hints to Collectors, by 



C. Fenn, F.E.S. W. G. Sheldon. J. W. Tutt, F.E.S. 



J. Mason. W. H.Tugwell, M.Ph.S. etc. etc. 



Current Notes by the Editor. 

 Reports of the principal Societies. 

 Variation : 



The origin and distribution of 

 Argy tints paphia var. valesma. 



Unique varieties of Smerinthus 

 tiltce (with chromo-litho plate). 



Bibliography. 

 Scientific Notes. 

 Special Notes on breeding 

 Lepidoptera from larvae : 



Catocala fraxini, 



Epunda lichenea, 



Heliophobus hispidus, etc. 



Serial Papers : 



The Genus Acronycta and its Allies (with chromo plates), by 

 Melanism and Melanochroism, by the Editor. [T. A. Chapman, M.D. 



List of Plates. 



Unique varieties of Smerinthus tilicB (chromo-litho). 

 Young larvae (from living specimens) of the Genus Acronycta 

 Pupae of the Genus Acronycta (chromo-litho.) [(chromo-litho.) 



(litho). 

 Woodcuts of undersides of Cidaria russata and C. immanata. 



Price 7s. 6d. 



To be obtained from Mr, A, J, HODGES, 2, Highbury Place, London, N, 



