CONTENTS. 



Answers to Correspondents. — Ship-timber Beetle, Lymexylon navale (with illustration), 

 JJG7. Argynnis Valczina at Canterbury, G. Parry, o70. To set Hyineuoptera, 870. Small 

 Specimens of Vanessa Urticfie, Geo. W. Oldjield, 871. Chermes Abietis, gall of the Spruce 

 fir, E. A. Hall, 871. Grapta C-Album bred in July, C. J. Watkins, 371. Minute Moth, 

 W. Seth Smith, 372. Cocoon of a Curculio, Wm. Douglas Robinson, 372. Name of a 

 Larva, \^Rev.'] A. G. Herveij, 372. Mould on Insects, W. H. Pearson, 373. Hearing Zcuzera 

 from the Egg, Cecil Brooks, 373. Parasite of the Tortoise, 374. Parasitic Acarus on 

 Crane-flies, 37-4. Bombyx processionea in Dorsetshire, 374. Galls on the Elm, Thomas 

 Brown, 375. Food of Carpocapsa promonana, W. West, 375. Migration of Aphides, 

 J. R. S. Clifford, 375. Lacordaire's Coleoptera, 370. M. Wencker, 376. M. de la 

 Brulerie, 376. M. Rene Oberthur, 376. M. de Narcillac, 377. M. I'Abbe Fettig, 378. 

 Phloedes obcordata, 378. New Books, 378. Entomologist to the Royal Agricultural 

 Society, 370. 



Life-history of Lithostege griseata, 379 ; Life-history of Aleucis pictaria, 382 ; Description 

 of the Larva of Nemoria viridata, Edward Newman, 383. Description of an Ephcstia 

 new to Science, C. S. Gregson, 885. 



On Turnip Insects during 1870, James Hardy, 385. 



Entomology and other things at York, Edwin Birchall, 300. 



Entomological Notes, Captures, &c. — Captures on the Kent and Essex Coasts, D. T. 

 Button, 893. Captures of Leiiidoptera in July, William Machin, 393. Captures near 

 Canterbury during the last fortnight in July, George Parry, 304. Agamogenesis in 

 Orgyia ccenosa, Thomas Brown, 395. Curious variety of Argynnis Eui)hrosyne, 395 ; 

 Agrotis i)uta, F. E. Harman, 866. Acronycta Alni near Chesterfield, John M. Heioitt, 

 896. Photedes captiuncula at Whitbarrow, near Bowness ; Rothliebii at Witherslack, 

 [72cv.] Windsor Hambrough, 396. Lobophora hexapterata at Limerick, William Talbot, 

 396. Food of Homoiosonia saxicola of Vaughan, C. S. Gregson, 396. Macaria alternata 

 and Diphthera Oiion at East Looe, Stephen Clogg, 397. 



Entomological Society. — Coleoptera collected in Ireland; Emus hirtus in the New 

 Forest ; Botys fuscalis, with a portion of the puparium still attached ; Insect-enemies 

 of Straw beriies ; MonograjDh of Stylopites, 897, 398. 



TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



Zyga-ua exulans discovered in Scotland. — Dr. Buchanan White, accompanied 

 by Mr. Traill, has captured Zjgaena exulans, at an elevation of 2500 feet, in 

 Braeraar. He has sent specimens to Mr. Doubleday, who finds it to be the 

 variety Vanadis, thus quoted at p. 46 of the recent edition of Dr. Staudinger's 

 Catalogue, " Vanadis, Dalm. Zyg. Siiec. 393, 6 (parcissime squamata, albo non 

 mixta), Lap; Scand. riiont.'" 



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A SYNONYMIC CATALOGUE of DIURNAL LEPIDOPTERA. By 

 W. F. KiRBY, author of a ' Manual of European Butterflies.' Containing 

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