CONTENTS. 



Anstvters to Correspondents, 447 — i53. 



Description of the Larvte of Aciilalia subseiioeata and mancuniata, Geo. T. Forritt, 453. 



Entomological Notes, Captures, &c. — Early api)earaiice of N. Lucina, M. N. Inman, 455. 

 The Genus Platypteryx, G. H. Rflynor, 455. Breeding Cossus Ligniperda and Zenzera 

 ^sculi, J. Russell, 450. Larvne of Bonihyx Quercus feeding on Ivy, M. A. J. Pitman, 

 457. On Breeding Acherontia Atropos, Bernard Lochyer, 458. Larvfc of Bomby 

 Eubi burying in the Earth, Byron Noel. 458. Thera firmata in October, A. F. Buxton. 

 459. Two Larvfe in One Cocoon, \_Rei\~\ A. C. Ilervey, 459. Eremobia ocbroh-uca 

 near Weymouth, A. F. Buxton, 459. Aplasta onoiiaria at Folkestone, William Purcley, 



459. Lepidoptera in Ayrshire, Henry Anderson, 459. Economy of Sesia Tipuliformis ; 

 Female Moths at Sugar; Hepialus lupulinus (second aY>\:ieiiYa.nce), J. R. S. Clifford, 



460. Cerastis erythrocephala at Darenth Wood, J. Moore, 461. 

 ENTOMOLOGiCAii SociETY. — Preserved Larva? of Lepidoptera ; Blac]< Variety of Melanagria 



Galathea ; New British Coleoptera, 401, 462. 

 Death of Mr. Lock, Edward Newman, 462. 



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