Vlll 



Another specimen of Sterrha sacraria, 

 6693 ; Lame or descriptions of larvae 

 earnestly desired, 6695 ; Friendly 

 alliance between blackbird and 

 thrush, 6723 ; Occurrence at Brigh- 

 ton of Lycaena boetica, a butterfly 

 new to Britain, Colias Edusa and 

 Sphinx Convolvuli, Description of 

 the larva of Licamodes Testudo, 

 6732 ; Larva of Notodonta dictae- 

 oides, 6770; Larva of Sphinx Con- 

 volvuli, Slerrha sacraria at Croydon, 

 6789; Heliothis armigera at sugar 

 and ivy, Diachronius germanus at 

 Hastings, 6791 ; Quedius auricomus 

 at Paisley, 6792 



Newman, Col. H. W. 



Bats flying in the sunshine, 6317 ; A 

 late swarm of bees — artificial 

 swarm : are the combs hexagonal 

 or not ? 6388, 6504 ; Instinct of 

 birds, 6491 ; Dates of the arrival of 

 migratory birds, 6563 ; Notes on 

 wasps, 6696 ; Disappearance of 

 swallows and martins, 6779 



Newton, Alfred, M.A., F.L.S. 



Naturalization of the edible frog in 

 England, 6538; Pallas'ssand grouse 

 in Jutland, 6780 



Newton, Edward 



Correction of previous error respecting 

 the harlequin duck, 6536 



Norman, George 



liemarkable earth-worm, 6578 



Ormerod, Edward Latham, M.D. 

 Contributions to the Natural History 

 of the British Vespidae, 6641 



Osburn, W. 



Notes on the birds of Jamaica, 6368 ; 

 Notes on the bats and birds of 

 Jamaica, 6587 ; Notes on the moun- 

 tain birds of Jamaica, 6658, 6709, 

 6753 



Parfitt, Edward 



An Acarus injurious to Orchids, 

 6461 



Pickard-Cambridge, Rev. O., M.A. 

 Note on a new British woodpecker, 

 6444 ; Remarks on Arachnida, 

 taken chiefly in Dorsetshire and 

 Hampshire, 6493 ; Phycis eontu- 

 bernella in Dorsetshire, 6791 

 Power, John Arthur, M.D., F.R.G.S. 

 Capture of Polystichus fasciolatus in 

 Sussex, 6791 

 Reading, J. J. 



The Jay a bird of prey, 6443 

 Roberts, Alfred 



Kite, hoopoe and golden oriole shot 

 near Scarborough, 656 I 



Rodd, Edward Hearle 



Tree sparrow at Penzance, 6329 ; 

 Little bustard near Padstow, Birds 

 singing at night, 6446 ; Golden 

 oriole near the Land's End, 6561 ; 

 Montagu's harrier, 6722 

 Rogers, Henry 



Abundance of Colias Edusa in 1858, 

 6335 ; Snow bunting in the Isle of 

 Wight, 6780 ; Larva of Sphinx Con- 

 volvuli, 6788 

 Ross, Rev. John 



The mode by which the Pholas bores, 

 6541 



Rowley, George Dawson 



Parrot crossbill near Brighton, 6329 ; 

 Pomariue skua near Brighton, 

 Sabine's gull at Brighton, 6331 ; 

 Black swan on the Souih coast, 

 6447 

 Saville, S. P. 



Hoopoe near Cambridge, 6562 ; A 

 monster pike, 6564 

 Sealy, A. F. 



Baillon's crake, and its nesting in Eng- 

 land, 6329 

 Slaney, W. H. 



Buff coloured rabbits, 6560; Hoopoe 

 near Shrewsbury, 6561 

 Smith, Rev. Alfred Charles, M.A. 

 On hereditary tricks in animals, 

 6673 



Smith, Frederick 



On the propriety of including imported 

 species in the list of British insects, 

 6385 ; Topsell's ' History of the 

 Wasp,' 6465 ; Note on Xylocopa 

 nigrita, 6468 ; Observations on two 

 species of fossorial Hymenoptera 

 which construct exterior nests, 6471 ; 

 Observations on the species of the 

 genus Prosopis of Fabricius, be- 

 longing to the family Andrenidae, 

 with notes on the economy of P. 

 dilatatus, 6610 ; Note on the cuckoo, 

 6676 

 Smith, W. H. 



Gastropacha ilicifolia, 6693 

 Smurthwaite, Henry 



Curious situation for a dipper's nest, 

 6561 ; Suggestion as to the eggs 

 mentioned by the Rev. J. C. Atkin- 

 son (Zool. 6563), 6638 

 Spencer, J. B. 



Ants store the seeds of violets, 

 6697 

 Stainton, H.T. 



Discovery of a new Neplicula, 6385 ; 

 Observations on Bll talis grandi- 



pennis, 6463 



