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Aberrations of Argynnia Paphia and Thecla quercus (Plate i). — K. J. Morton, 



F.E.S 1 



Descriptions of the larva and pupa of Aproserema Sangiella, Stn. — E. R. Bankes, 



M.A.,F.E.S 2 



Local variation in Lepidoptera from the Orkneys. — 0. Q. Barrett, F.E.8 4 



Cossns ligniperda : change of habit of larva when ichnenmoned. — T. A. Chap- 



ynan, M.D., F.E.S 5 



Notes on Aphides. — 0. C. Bignell, F.E.S 6 



Cephenomyia anribarbis, Mg. : larvae, &c. — Rev. B. N. Bloomjield, M.A., F.E.S. 7 



Notes on the OEstrine parasites of British Deer. — Ernest E. Austen 8 



Notes on some interesting Heteropfcera met with in 1897. — F. B. Jennings ... 13 

 Poeciloscytns vnlneratus, Wolff, an addition to the List of British Hemiptera. 



— H. J. Thouless 15 



Variation in the form of the maxillae in the genua Mordella. — 0. C. Champion, 



F.Z.8 16 



Homalium nigriceps, Kies. : synonymic note. — Id 16 



Brachysomus hirtua, Boh. (Platytarsus setuloaus, Boh.), at Chatham. — J. J. 



Walker, R.N., F.L.S 17 



Captures of Coleoptera, &c., during the past season in the vicinity of Hastings. 



— W.W.Esam 17 



The food of Silpha laevigata, F. — H. J. Thouless 18 



Pissodes notatus near Wellington, Berks. — L. M. Bucknill 19 



Pissodes notatus near Bournemouth. — E. J. Burgess Sopp 19 



Coleoptera notabilia of the Liverpool district during 1897. — W. E. Sharp 19 



Prosopis dilatata and Megachile versicolor near Maidstone. — Hubert Elgar ... 20 



Pompilus (Aporus) unicolor, Spin., near Dover. — F. W. L. Sladen 20 



A freak of Nature: Lasiocampa trifolli. — Sydney Wehh 20 



Limnophilus nigriceps, Zett., at Ipswich. — Claude Morley, F.E.S. 20 



Limnophilus affinis at sea ten miles from land. — R. McLachlan, F.R.S 21 



Societies. — Birmingham Entomological Society 21 



Cambridge Entomological, &o,. Society 21 



South London Entomological, &c., Society 22 



Entomological Society of London 23 



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