VI 



CONTENTS. 



Birds eating Coccinellidse, 147 



Biston hisiDidaria, 71 



Blaps mucionata, 194 



Boarmia abietaria, 43 ; consortaria, 74 ; 

 repandata, var. conversaria, 42 ; 

 roboraria, 43, 220, 307 



Bombua lapidarius, 193 ; lapponicus, 

 193 ; muscorum, 193 



Bombyx lanestris, five and seven years 

 in pupa, 246 ; neustria, 287 ; quer- 

 cus, 288,— var. callunas, 288, 306 ; 

 rubi, 288 



Books beviewed : — 



'The Lepidoptera of Essex,' by E. N. 



Bloomfield, 80 

 ' The Honey Bee,' by T. W. Cowan, 80 

 ' Abstract of Proceedings of the South 

 London Entomological and Natural 

 History Society for the years 1888 — 

 1889,' 152 

 ' A Series of Thirty Coloured Diagrams 

 of Insects injurious to Farm Crops,' 

 drawn from nature by Miss G. E. 

 Ormerod, in conjunction with Miss 

 Eleanor A. Ormerod, 3."!8 

 ' Photography applied to the Micro- 

 scope,' by F. W. Mills, 808 



Botys lupulinalis, 305 ; terrealis, 183 ; 

 urticalis, var., 224 



Braconidis, 203, 268 



Brephos pavthenias, 75 



Bkitain — Lepidoptera, 62,— distribution 

 of certain sjDp. in Eastern Asia, 81, — 

 notes on, from continental journals, 

 33 ; Plusia moneta in, 194 ; Myce- 

 tophorus punctus and Conurus im- 

 maculatus, new to Midlands, 78 ; 

 Choerocampa nerii, recorded cap- 

 tures in, 195, 221 ; Diptera new to, 

 235 ; forthcoming works on ento- 

 mology of, 272 



Bryophila perla, 41 



Bryophilidte, 228 



Bryotropha obscurella, 305 



Bucculatrix aurimaculella, 98 



BucKiNGHAMSHiEE — Lepidoptera of the 

 Chiltern Hills, 2 ; Asthena blomeri, 

 217, 245 



Bug, imitating ant, 197 



Butterflies, decoy for, 173, 244 ; in the 

 Apennines, 227 



" Buttons," day among, 271 



Cffilioxys elongata, 202 



Caledonica lanegera, 80 



Calligenia miniata, 4, 220, 308 



Callimorpha hera, 305 



Calocampa solidaginis, 246 ; vetusta, 246 



Calosoma syco^Dhanta, 42 



Calymnia affinis, 41, 75 ; diffinis, 41, 75 ; 

 pyralina, 290 



Cambeidgeshike — Collecting in, 818 



Campoplex oxyacanthte, i&i 



Carabus granulatus emitting strong 

 fluid, 194 ; nitens at Wimborne and 

 Ringwood, 45 



Caradrina, forms, 175 



Carsia imbutata, 2(38 



Caterpillars, Cheshire plague of, 18, 42 



Catocala fraxini, 195 



Catopsilia catilla, 212 



Cedestis gysselinella, 149 



Celasna haworthii, 268 



Cephus phthiscus, 203 



Cerastis ligula, 306 



Cerostoma alpeUa, 98; lucella, 98; syl- 

 vella, 98 



Cerura bifida, 70 



Cetonia aurata, 1 19 



Chalcididas, 203 



Chapman, Dr., his divisions of genus 

 Acronycta, 111 



Charseas graminis, 247, 268, — time and 

 manner of flight, 4 



Charaxes jasius, 179 



Chasmodon apterus, 262 



Chauliodus illigerellus, 98 



Cheilosia festracea, 79, 151, 204 



Gheimatobia boreata, Trixia variegator 

 bred from, 23 ; brumata, 19 



Chelaria hiibnerella, 98 



Chelonius carbinator, 203 



Chemistry of insect colours, contribu- 

 tions to the, 9, 37, 53, 86, 114, 132, 

 163, 186, 207 



Cheshire — Plague of caterpillars, 18, 

 42 ; spring Lepidoptera in Chester 

 district, 143 ; notes from, 286 ; notes 

 on past season from Delamere 

 Forest, 301 



Chloromyia formosa, 203 



Chlorops hypostigma, 204, 236 



Choerocampa celerio in mouse-trap, 19 ; 

 nerii, recorded captures in Britain, 

 195, 221 ; porcellus, 219 



Chrosis audouinana, 97 



Chrysoclysta schrankella, 98 



Chrysididae, 202 



Cicada anglica, 152 



Cicindela campestris, 42 



Cidaria associata (dotata), 44 ; dotata 

 (pyraliata), 44, 74 ; miata, 5 ; pi- 

 cata, 74 ; prunata, 5 ; pyraliata, 5 ; 

 reticulata, var., 266 ; ribesiaria, 74 ; 

 siderata, 74 ; suffumata, 171, — 

 "Dover form," 171; testata, 289; 

 truncata (russata), second brood, 

 268, — vars. perfuscata, immanata, 

 289 



Cleora glabraria, 73, 97, 125 ; lichenaria, 

 5, 43, 71, 307 



Cleodora cytisella, 98 



Cloantha solidaginis in Inverness-shire, 

 126 



Clidogastra punctipes, 204, 235 



