CONTENTS. 



Description of the Larva of Lythria purpuraria ; of Acidalia rusticata, E. Neu>man, 



175, 176. Description of the Lirva of DianthfBcia irregularis, Q. T. Porritt, 177. 



Entomological Notes, Captures, &c. — Aporia Cratsegi at Faversham, W. J. Skelton, 



178. Impregnation of Vanessa Polychloros, Joseph Merrin, 178. Pieris Daplidice 

 at Portsmouth, H. W. Marsden, 179. Variety of Rhodocera Rhamni, H. A. Bull, 



179. Camponiscus Healaei, Charles Heahj, 179. Hesperia Actneon at Swanage and 

 Tyneham, and Tryphsena subsequa at Wareham, T. Parmiter, 179, Deilephila 

 lineata near Maidstone, H. D. Oreville, 179; in Cornwall, Stephen Clogg, 179 ; 

 at Colchester, W. H. Harwood, 189. Larva of Deilephila lineata, A. B. Farn, 



180. Deilephila Galii and D. lineata at Plymouth, J. Brooking Rowe, 180. 

 Deilephila Euphorbias near Ipswich, Edward F. Bisshopp, 181. Deilephila Galii 

 at Witham, W. D. Cansdale, 181 ; near Bolton, T. Calderbank, 181 ; at Weston- 

 super-Mare (correction of Error), R. Aldridge, 181; at Stanley-by-Perth, Thos. 

 Marshall, 182 ; at Ipswich, A. L. Hunt, 182 ; at Newcastle-ou-Tyne, J. Hamilton, 

 182 ; in Birmingham, J. Landon, 182 ; at Tooting, E. H. Hast, 182 ; on Durd- 

 ham Downs, {Rev.) J. Greene, 182 ; at Wallasey, William Greasley, 183. Second 

 Brood of Notodonta ziczac ; Apamea ophiogramraa, (Mrs.) F. I. Battersby, 183. 

 Liparis dispar near Odiham, J. A. Spiller, 183. Pachnobia alpina in Perthshire, 

 Thos. Eedle, 183. Agrophila sulphuralis and Crambus pinetellus at Clapton, 

 W. J. Argent, 184. Lepidoptera on Hackney Marshes, W. Machin, 18-1. Cater- 

 pillar eating Potatoes, Sydney Klein, 184. Spider or Mouse, Stephen Clogg, 185. 

 The Tea Grub, Wm. Thomson, 185. Correction of an Error : Pachytylus cine- 

 rascens a British Insect, F. WaZker, 185. The Wheat Midge, E. Newman, 185. 



Entomological Society. — OxyptUus Isetus; Galls on Ammophila arundinacea; 

 Cynips ramuli on Oak ; Acaridae in the Buds of Black Currant, 189, 190. 



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