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Gontents of Vol. Ii. (Most important only Mentioned.) 
Genus Acronycta and its allies.—Variation of Smerinthus tiliae, 3 coloured 
plates—Differentiation of Melitaea athalia, parthenie, and aurelia—The Doubleday 
collection — Parthenogenesis— Paper on Taenioeampidae— Phylloxera— Practical 
Hints (many)—Parallel Variation in Coleoptera—Origin of Argynnis paphia var. 
valesina— Work for the Winter—Temperature and Variation—Synonymic notes— 
Retrospect of a Lepidopterist for 1890—Lifehistories of Agrotis pyrophila, Hpunda 
lichenea, Heliophobus hispidus—Captures at light—Aberdeenshire notes, etc., 
etc., 360 pp. 
Gentents of Vol. Il. 
Mruanism and Mrtanocnroism—Bibliography—Notes on Collecting—Articles 
on VARIATION (many)—How to breed Agrotis lunigera, Sesia sphegiformis, Taenio- 
campa opima— Collecting on the Norfolk Broads—Wing development—Hybridising 
Amphidasys prodromaria and A. betularia—Melanism and Temperature—Differen- 
tiation of Dianthecias—Disuse of wings—Fauna of Dulwich, Sidmouth, 8. London 
—Generic nomenclature and the Acronyctidae—A fortnight at Rannoch-—Heredity 
in Lepidoptera—Notes on Genus Zyamna (Anthrocera)—Hybrids—Hymenoptera-— 
Lifehistory of Gonophora derasa, etc., etc., 312 pp. 
Gontents of Vol. fll. 
Genus Acronycta and its allies (continued)—Scientific Notes—The British 
Coccinellidae—Notes on Breeding—Notes on Conzoprmra (very many)—Dates of 
appearance of Hupithecia pygmeata—Dimorphic pupse—Duration of Ova State of 
the Geometridae (with tables)—Effects of temperature on the colouring of Lepidop- 
fera—Hints on labelling—Melanic varieties—Changes in nomenclature—Keeping 
Micro pups during winter—Notes on Genus Hepialus—Reviews, etc., etc., 320 pp. 
Gontents of Vol. iV. 
Additions to British Lists—Presidential Addresses of British Association and 
Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society—Autumnal collecting at Fresh- 
water, Isle of Wight—Captures of rarities—Collecting beetles—Critical notes on 
certain Noctwae—A day’s collecting in the Western Highlands—Apparent dearth 
of Diurni—Double-brooded species—The early stages of certain Geometrina—Sensi- 
bility of larvee to sound—Collecting in North Kent—How to obtain and preserve 
ova—Retrospect of a Lepidopterist for 1893—Stridulation—Variety breeding—The 
Pupal and Imaginal wings of Lepidoptera, etc., etc., 354 pp. 
Gontents of Vol. V. 
On the larva of Arctia caia (with plates)—Hvolution of the Lepidopterous 
Pupa—Rev. H. Burney’s collection (sale)—Life-History of a Lepidopterous Insect 
(Morphology and Physiology, ete.)—Among the Ancients—Hrebia epiphron and its 
named Varieties—Life-History of Agrotis agathina—Ten Days at Wicken Fen— 
Varieties of Spilosoma mendica—Butterfly Catching in the neighbourhood of Mt. 
Blanc—Life-History of Ocneria dispar—Zygaena exulans and its Variations— 
Entomology at Rainham, Essex—Additiens to the British List—New Method of 
Relaxing Insects, etc., etc., 308 pp. 
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