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INDEX. 



Colias hyale in 1899, 91 



Colias hyale in June, at Eastbourne, 

 225 ; in'May and June, 313 



Colias hyale in 1900, in Berks, 273; 

 in Bucks, 273 ; in Cambs. 273, 309 ; in 

 Dorset, 274 ; in Essex, 274, 252 ; in 

 Gloucestershire, 275 ; in Hants, 275, 

 310 ; in Herts, 275, 353 ; in Kent, 276, 

 277, 310, 353 ; in Leicestershire, 310 ; 

 in Middlesex, 277 ; in Norfolk, 277 ; 

 in Northamptonshire, 311; in Notting- 

 hamshire, 353; in Oxfordshire, 277 ; 

 in Somerset, 278, 311, 312, 353; in 

 Suffolk, 278, 312; in Surrey, 278, 

 279; in Sussex, 279, 312; in Wilts, 

 280 ; in Worcestershire, 313 



Collecting at Deal, three days', 356 ; in 

 Hayward's Heath district, 225 ; in 

 the Isle of Lewis, 37 ; at Sidmouth, 

 307; in South Devon, 326 



Collecting and rearing dragonfiies, 89 



Collective enquiry as to Progressive Me- 

 lanism in moths, 185 



Correction, a, 129 



Coreniia quadrifasciaria at Bexley, 130; 

 in Essex, 225, 249, 272 ; in Suffolk, 272 



Cossus ligniperda larva, 128 



Cymatophora ocularis at Chingford, 306 



Dasycampa rubigineaat Cambridge, 308 ; 



in Dorsetshire, 249 

 Deilephila galii in Gloucestershire, 270 ; 



livornica in N. Staff ordslure, 305 

 Description of certain varieties of Pero- 

 nea cristana, 179 ; of a new species of 

 Dircenna from Peru (fig.), 299; of the 

 egg of Polyommatus corydon, 300 

 Dianthoecia cucubali in August, 305 

 Dicycla oo in Surrey, 249 

 Diphyletism in the Lepidoptera, 120, 221 

 Diphthera aprilina in Moray, 14 

 Diplosis partheniicola, 201 

 Diptera of Nottinghamshire, 180 

 Dircenna barrettii, sp. n. (fig-). 299 

 Dragonfly, season of, 1899, 137 

 Dwarf Lepidoptera, 129 ; Vanessa ata- 

 lanta, 92 



Early and late dates for Euchloe carda- 



mines and other butterflies, 351 

 Early appearance of Pieris rapas, 130 

 Early occurrence of Anisopteryx £escu- 



laria, 91 

 Earwigs beneficial, 87 

 Editorial, 325 



Eggs of Ceroplastes irregularis, 201 

 Emergence of Clostera reclusa, 12 

 Ennomos alniaria at Bognor, 306 

 Entomology in New Zealand, 5, 186 

 Epinephele (Hipparchia) hyperanthes in 



Fifeshu-e, 351 ; tithonus in abundance, 



350 

 Epunda nigra at Cambridge, 308; in 



Kent, 271, 306 



Eretmoptera, a new dipterous genus, 349 



Errata, 202, 859 



Euplexia lucipara in February, 131 



Field Cricket (Gryllus campestris) near 



Hastings, 49 

 Flavour of caterpillars, the, 87 

 Flatoides, a remarkable instance of, 301 

 -Food-plants of Homoptera, 302 

 Formalin as a preservative of insects, 90 



Gerris lacustris nymph in October, 355 

 Great destruction of injurious beetles, 11 

 Guide to the Study of British Water- 

 bugs, a, 148 

 Gynandromorphous — Argynnis paphia, 

 266 ; Colias edusa, 157 ; Lyctena ica- 

 rus, 157 ; Thecla quercus, 157 



Habits of Cossus ligniperda, 128, 224 

 Halias prasinana audible. 247 

 Heliothis armigera in New Zealand, 201 ; 



scutosa in South Devon, 3n6 

 Hemerobius limbatus in January, 49 

 Humming sound of Macroglossa stella- 



tarum, 129 

 Hybernating two winters, larva of Odo- 



nestis potatoria, 10 

 Hymenoptera of Nottinghamshire, 180 



Insect fauna of Hampshire, the, 349 

 Ischnura elegaus in Loudon, 225 ; pu- 

 milio, 201 



Larva of Acronycta alni at Tunbridge 

 Wells, 249 ; of Arctia caia and Odo- 

 nestes potatoria at Chester, 181 

 Larvffi-beating in 1899 compared with 



1898, 94 

 Late grasshopper, 355 

 Lepidoptera, &c., in 1899, 14, 93 ; at 

 light in 1899, 92 ; in County Cork, 143, 

 197 ; at Winchester in 1899, 15 

 Lepidopterous eggs on sallow, 14, 49 

 Leucania albipuncta at Bexhill, 250 ; vi- 

 tellina at Bognor, 306 ; in Essex, 306 

 Libellula quadnmaculata, 248 

 Liparis chrysorrhcea abundant at Hove, 



307 

 Limenitis sibylla in Surrey, 272 

 Local scarcity of Taaniocampa incerta,349 

 Lyca-ua argiolus, 303 ; in North London, 

 269 ; in S. England, 351 ; bellargus, 

 aberration figured, 281 ; in Hertford- 

 shire, 303, 352 ; b(etica bred in Guern- 

 sey, 268; corydon var. fowleri, 104, 

 157 ; pheretes and its allies in the 

 Sikim Himalayas, 199, 223 



Macrocephalus arizonicus = uhleri, 201 



Macroglossa stellatarum, 304 ; in April, 



182 ; in Gloucestershire, 352 ; at Hud- 



dersfield, 249; in Kent, 352; in S, 



England, 351 



