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CONTENTS. PAGR 



Trifurcula pallidella in the Isle of Purbeck.— E. R. Bankes, M.A., F.E.8. 445 



Remarks on Mr. Jas. Edwards' List of Norfolk Hemiptera. — E. Saunders, F.L.8. 446 

 Second Supplement to Annotated List of British Anthorayiidae (concluded). — 



R.H.Meade... 448 



Synopsis of the British Orthoptera {continued). — Eland Shaw, F.E.S 450 



On breeding Deilephila galii. — Rev. E. N. Bloomfield, M.A 455 



Pterophorus isodactylus in Sonth Dorset. — E. R. Bankes, M.A., F.E.S. 455 



Chorenfces vibrana in the Isle of Purbeck. — Id. 456 



Sphinx convolvuli at West Lulworth. — Id 456 



Sphinx convolvuli at King's Lynn. — C. 0. Barrett, F.E.S 456 



A destroyer of larvae of Zeuzera sesculi. — Id 456 



Larvae of Boarmia rhomboidaria on Scotch Fir. — 0. J. Wainwright 456 



GEcophora scipella : its food-plant. — S.T.Ellison 457 



Note on Nabis limbatus. — J. Eardley-Mason 457 



Lygns viscicola, Puton.— /. W. Douglas, F.E.S 457 



Homalium septentrionis, Thorns., in Warwickshire. — W. Q. Blatch 457 



Amara nitida, Sturm, a Warwickshire insect. — Id 458 



Birmingham Entomological Society. — ColbranJ. Wainwright, Hon. Sec 458 



The South London Entomological and Natural History Society. — H. W. Barker, 



F.E.S., Hon. Sec 458 



Proceedings of the Entomological Society of London. — H. Goss, F.L.S., Hon. Sec. 459 

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