CONTENTS, 



Should the Formation and Arrangement of a Collection of Insects be made 

 Subservient to the Elucidation of Scientific Problems ? W. Har court-Bath, 

 293. Uniformity in Pinning and Setting Lepidoptera, Wihnot Tunstall, 299. 

 The Androconia of Callidryas florella, J. C. Bichard, 302. New Bees of the 

 genus Melissodes, T. D. A. Cocherell, 304. Two New Charaxes from the 

 Lesser Sunda Islands, Hon. Walter BothscJiild, 308. The late Miss Georgiana 

 E. Ormerod (with portrait), 310. 



Notes and Observations. — Acherontia atropos, Edward B. Walker, Dr. H. W. 

 Livett, 311. Note on Chesias rufata (obliquaria), E. H. Taylor, 312. Vanessa 

 c-album, E. S. Hutchinson, 312. Triphaena subsequa and orbona, C. J. Nash, 

 312. Collector v. Entomologist, E, S. Hutchinson, 313. High Flat-set Insects, 

 W. Harcourt-Bath, 313. Fungi or Androconia ? John B. Smith, 314. 



Captures and Field Reports. — Variety of Nemeobius lucina, John Buchland 

 314. Variety of Lycaena icarus (alexis), E. V. Hall, 314. Varieties of Chryso- 

 phanus phloeas, F. L. Blathwayt, 314. Gynandrous and other Varieties of 

 Chrysophanus phloeas, E. Sabine, 315. Variety of Catocala nupta, Sidney 

 Cooper, 315. Deilephila li vomica in Hants, Bev. A. D. Patterson, 315. 

 Emergence of Smerinthus populi in August, H. W. Bell-Marley, 315. Early 

 and late Emergences, A. T. Mitchell, 315. Autumn Emergence of Phorodesma 

 pustulata (bajularia) and Pseudoterpna pruniata (cytisaria), E.H. Taylor, 315 

 Sphinx convolvuli at Reading, W. E. Butler, 316. Oberea oculata in Cam- 

 bridgeshire, Alex. Nash, 316. Choerocampa nerii in Kent, A. B. Upton, 316. 

 Vanessa antiopa at Syke, 316. Acherontia atropos in England and Wales, 

 1896, E. V. Hall, John Taylor, A. T. Mitchell, J. H. Leech, Arthur S. Helps, 

 Bev. G. H. Baynor, Augustus D. Imms, 316. 



Communications Received. — J. Adams, W. Barnes, "W. Harcourt-Bath, 

 C. J. Boden, T. D. A. Cockerell, G. Garland, D. Imms, B. N. Menshootkin, 

 G. Stanley Morley, A. Morris, Savile J. Reid, H. Douglass Stockwell, H. J. Turner, 

 C. J. Wainwright, F. C. Woodforde ; Reports of Societies ; and several Exchange 

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