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 CONTENTS. 



Gossiping Notes on British Coleoptera — G. A. Levvcock . . 



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41 



Notes on a few Indian Game Birds — The Great Indian Bustard 

 — F. E. Prescott-Decie . . 



.. 46 



On the probable Origin of Deilephila Galli— W. H. Tugwell, F.E.S. . . 



.. 48 



Reports of Societies 



50 



Retinia Margarotana, H.S. — J. B. Hodgkinson .. .. 



52 



Note on Melanic Variations of Lepidoptera — C. W. Dale, F.E.S. 



53 



Lithocolletis Insignitella, Z. — John E. Robson, Hartlepool.. 



54 



Notes and Observations — Vanessa Io in February — B. Kendrick, Warrington 



56 



Do any of the Sphingidae hybernate — C. E. Stott, Bolton-le-Moors 



.. 56 



Breeding of the Black variety of A. Betularia — G. Pullen, Derby 



57 



Early appearance of Phigalia Pilosaria — J. W. Carter, Bradford 



57 



Phigalia Pilosaria Assembling — Ben. Blades Thompson, Harrogate 



37 



The Mild Season, Nepticula Aurella in February — H. T. Stainton, Lewisham 



58 



Varieties of British Noctuae — Editor Y.N. . . . . 



58 



Mummy Cats — C. H. H. Walker, Egremont, Cheshire 



58 



Supplement : — British Spiders — Revd. O. P. Cambridge 



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