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CONTENTS. 



A Catalogue oh' the Slugs of the British Isles. —Wult^r E. Collincre. 



The Hynienoptera-Aculeata of Lanes, and Cheshire. — W. Gardner, f.b.g.s. 



The Secondary Sexual Characters of the British Coleoptera. — J. W. Ellis, B.A, 



Spring ^Collecting at Biarritz. — Miss K. M. HinchclifP. ... 



Random Xotes on British Lepidoptera. — J. E. Robson, f.e.s. 



Reports of Societies ... 



Naturalists of the Day 



General Notes ... ... ... .. ... ... ... 



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A portrait of Dr. D. Sharp, f.k.s., etc., is given with this montli's Magazine, 

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The next to appejir will be a portrait of the Kev. 0. P. Cambridge, of 

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