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CONTElSfTS. 



Paedisca rubiginosana, 173; solandri- 

 ana, var., 1U3 ; sordidana, 128 



Parage egeria, second brood, 3, — rear- 

 ing, 285 ; roxellana, 180 



Parcels for foreign countries, reduced 

 rates, 150 



Parnassius apollo, 227; mnemosyne, 

 227 



Pechypogon (Herminea) barbalis, 70 



Pemphredon lethifer, 202 



Pericallia syringaria, 41, 71 



Peronea comariana, 97 ; cristana, 271, 

 — dark, 305, — vars. bentleyana, 

 brunneana, cristalana, cristana, 

 desfontiana, sericana, striana, sub- 

 vittana, ustulana, 271 



Petasia cassinea (Asteroscopus sphinx), 

 72 



Pezomachus bellicosus, 202 



Phalera bucephala larvte feeding on 

 common laurel, 18 



Phibalapteryx lapidata in Stirlingshire, 

 208 ; lignata, 271 



Phorocera concinnata bred from Vanessa 

 urticse, 22 



Phorodesma bajularia, 307 ; smarag- 

 daria, larvae, 298 ; pustulata, 41 



Phylloporia bistrigella, 98 



Physiological investigation, material 

 wanted for, 296 



Pieridse, 81 



Pieris brassicse, 83 ; ergane, 179 ; dapli- 

 dice, 162, 227 ; napi, 83 ; rapas, 83, 

 125,— in February, 77, 99,— yellow 

 var., 199 



Pigment, latent yellow, 138 ; develop- 

 ment of red in Lepidoptera, 193 



Pigments of insects, 278 



Pins, entomological, 215, 272 



Pipizella annulata, 204, 235; flavi- 

 tarsis (— biguttata), 235 



Pipunculus ater, 204 ; geniculatus, 204, 

 235 



Platystoma seminationis, 22 



Platypteryx sicula (Drepana harpagula) 

 near Clifton, 298 



Platytes cerussellus, 221 



Plotheia frontahs, vars., 101 



Plusia bractea, 194, 208 ; consona, 194 ; 

 festucaj, 218, 268, 270; illustris, 

 Fabr., 194 ; kJta, 4, 71 ; modesta, 

 194 ; moneta, 44, — in Britain, 194 ; 

 orichalcea, 218; pulchrina, 4, 17, 

 — larvffi, 194 



Plutella cruciferarum, 256 



Poecilia albiceps, 98 



Pcecilocampa populi and insect vitality, 

 147 



Polyblastes pinguis, 262 



Polyommatus alciphron, 179 ; phloeas, 

 85 ; white specimens artitically pro- 

 duced, 44, — var., 79, — var. eleus, 



179 ; alciphron, var. gordius, 228 ; 



dorilis, 228; approaching var. 



schmidtii, 79 ; virgaurese, 228 

 Pompilus gibbus, 202 ; pectinipes, 202 ; 



viaticus, 202 

 Priocnemis fuscus, 201 

 Pseudoterpna pruinata, 71 

 Psilura monacha, 72 

 Psoricoptera gibbosella, 97 

 Psyche pulla, 243, 296; villosella, 



larv£e, 70, — notes on life-history, 



226 

 Pteropcecila lamed, 204, 230 

 Pterostoma palpina, 74 

 Ptocheuusa subocellea, 98 

 Pupa, of Satyrus megsera, variation, 



195 ; of Bombyx lanestris five and 



seven years in pupa, 246 

 PuiDffi of Trochilium bembeciformis, 72 ; 



wanted for temperature experi- 

 ments, 267 ; preserving through 



winter, 296 ; destroyed by a fungus, 



306 

 Pupation of Acherontia atropos abnor- 

 mal, 76 ; of Acronycta alni, 267, 



299 ; leporina lasting two years, 



175 ; early, of Smerinthus populi, 



217 

 Pyralida3, synonymic notes, 180 

 Pyrameis cardui, 213 ; dejeanii, 225 ; 



itea, read for " stea," 213 

 Queensland — Lepidoptera, 171 

 Query respecting field apparatus, 148 

 Easpberry, food-plant of Saturnia car- 



pini, 247 

 Ee-development of lost limbs in the In- 



secta, 108 

 Eetinia buoliana, 46 ; pinicolana, 46 ; 



pinivorana, 173 ; turionella, 173 

 Ehodocera rhamni, 83 

 Ehopalocera, Australian, a correction 



in, 171 ; in Corfu, 179 

 Eubus fruticosus, females of Lasio- 



campa potatoria depositing ova 



upon dead leaves of, 70 

 Sallows in Yorkshire, 1891, 145 

 Saperda scalaris, 195 

 Sapromyza platycephala, 204, 235 

 Saturnia carpini on raspberry, 247 ; 



pavonia, Masicera sylvatica, bred 



from larvte, 22 

 Satyridas, 82 

 Satyrus alcyone, 228 ; circe, 228 ; her- 



mione, 180 ; ianira, var., 260 ; 



meg£era, variation in pupa, 195 

 Scardia arcella, 98 

 Schoenobius mucronellus, 299 

 Sciara thomse, from Cannock Chase, 78 

 Sciomyza dubia, 236 

 Scodiona read for " Scodonia," 173 ; 



belgiaria, 42, 173 

 Scoparia mercurella, var. portlandica, 97 



