CONTENTS. 



Answers to Correspondents : — Mr. Doubleday's Health ; Sirex Juvencus ; Roses of the 

 Larch ; Galls of Quercus Toza ; Bee of the Egyptian monuments ; Larva in Elm wood ; 

 Red Velvety Acarus ; Acarus in Sheep ; The Tsetse ; Benzole for destroying mites ; 

 Eastern Entomological Society of London; Nyssia lapponica in Scotland ; Prizes for 

 Collections of Economic Entomology, 287 — 290. 



Entomological Notes, Captures, &c. — Sugai-ing for Moths, 291; Parasitic Acari on Cage 

 Birds, J, R. S. Clifford, 292. Early appearance of Anthocharis Cardamines, &c., 

 G. H. Raynor, 293. Lepidoptera in Eppiug Forest, Williavi Machin, 293. Butterflies 

 near Wotton-under-Edge, W. E. Thompson, 293. Dasycampa rnbiginea at Lyndhurst, 

 James Gerrarcl, 294. Early Swarm of Bees, W. Slade, 294. Vanessa C-album at Cam- 

 bridge, G. H. Raynor, 294. Vanessa Polychloros in abundance, A. H. Wratislaw, 294. 



Entomological Society : — Hornet barking an Ash-branch ; Parasite of the Peacock ; Mai- 

 formation in the Antennae of Lepidoptera ; Galls of Campanula rotundifoha ; British 

 Species of Oxypoda ; Immature Sexuality, &c., of Insects ; Swarms of Chlorops lineata ; 

 Pollen-mass of an Orchid on the Eye of a Dipteron ; Gall on the leaves of a Carex ; 

 Gynandromorphism in Hymenoptera; Lepisma saccharina; Grouping of British 

 Macro-Lepidoptera, 294—300. 



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