xvi 



Snipes neighing or luiimTiing, 6244 

 Solenobia triquetrella, 5927 

 Sparrows attacking rats, note on, 6009 

 Species, on the persistence of, 6153 ; on 



the tendency of to form varieties, 



6293 



Specific distinctions, on, 5949 

 Sphserodernia, 5970 



Sphinx Convolvuli in Devonshire, 6282; 



in the Metropolis, id. 

 „ Nerii at Brighton, 5961 

 Spider silk, 5922 

 Spoonbill near Aldborough, 6266 

 Sporting, Bavarian, 5870, 6004 

 Squirrels, note on the early breeding of, 



6058 



Starling roost at Rathkeale, county 



Limerick, 6003 

 Stauropus Fagi, 6101 

 Stenus nev^^ to the British Fauna, capture 



of a, 5928 



Stainton, H. T., &c., ' The Natural-His- 

 tory of the Tineina,' 6255 

 Sterrha sacraria a British insect, 6249 

 Strangalia, 5967 



Sun-fish, short, at Torquay, 6144 ; on 

 the Sussex coast, 6210 ; at Berry Head, 

 6246 ; near Banff, 6271 



Swallow, notes on the, 5921 



Swallows, nidification of, 6241 



Swallows and other birds, nesting of, 

 5920 



Swans, black, nesting at "^Carshalton, 

 5988 



Swifts, movements of, 5958 

 Syuia musculosa at Brighton, 6284 

 Tapes aurea, 5876 

 decussata, id. 



„ pullastra, id. 



„ virginea, id. 

 Tea-tree : does any insect feed on it ? 



5925 



Teal, garganey, beautiful variety of, 

 6210 



Tendency of species to form varieties, 

 6293 



Tephrosia larlcaria, 6029 ; larvce of, 



6066, 6103 

 Terebratula caputserpentis, 5886 

 Terebratulidas, id. 

 Thea, 5971 



Thecla Rubi in Banffshire, 6101 



Thrushes, white, 6141 



Timandra prataria near Folkestone, 



6249 

 Timarcha, 5968 



Tinea, a supposed new species of, allied 



to T. rusticella, 5964 

 Tischeria angusticolella, 5927 

 Titan, 6108, 61 10 



Titmouse, longtailed, early nesting of, 

 6059 



Travels, Mr. Wallace's, note on, 5942 

 Trechus Discus, 5950 

 ,, lapidosus, id. 

 „ micros, id. 

 „ rubens, id. 

 Trichoptevygidce, British, synonymic list 



of, 6104 

 Trichopteryx, 6109 

 Trichopteryx convexa, 6107 

 Trochilium Vespifornie, plentiful occur- 

 rence of in England, 5924 ; remarks on, 

 5961 



Turlonia minuta, 5880 



Tzelze, the, 5965, 6170 



Vanessa Antiopa, capture of at Stoke 

 Newington, 6100 ; capture of in Scot- 

 land, id. ; in the North, 6276 



Varieties, permanent and geographical, 

 note on the theory of, 5887 ; of black 

 grouse, 6243 ; tendency of species to 

 form, 6293 ; tendency of to depart 

 indefinitely from the original type, 

 6299 



Variety, curious, of Apatura Tris, 5923 ; 

 remarkable, of Argynnis Euphrosyne, 

 id. ; supposed, of the partridge, 6059 ; 

 small, of the partridge, 6095, 6143 ; 

 beautiful, of garganey teal, 6210; 

 extraordinary, of the common night- 

 jar, 6242 ; beautiful, of Acherontia 

 Atropos, 6282 ; of Cicindela campestris, 

 6286 



Veneridae, 5876 



Venus casina, 5877 

 „ fasciata, id. 

 „ ovata, id. 

 „ striata, id. 

 ,, verrucosa, id. 



Weasel carrying its young, 6309 



Woodpecker, great spotted, at Dulwich, 

 5920 ; at Welney Wash, 5958 



Wrasse, immaculate, at Weymouth, 

 6272 



Xanthia Aurago, larva of, 6145 



„ ocellaris on the Coast, 6284 

 Xysmatodoma argentimaculella, 6214 

 Zeugophora, 5967 



Zeuzera ^EsCuli feeding on ash, 6283 

 Zoological Society, proceedings of, 5915, 

 5991, 6040, 6156,0195 



