AlH'ERTI SEMENTS. 

 CONTENTS. 



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Border Sketches — Notes on the Conchology of Cumberland 



— Rev. Hilderic Friend, F.L.S. ., '.. .. 61 



Notes on a few Indian Game Birds — The Red Jungle-Fowl 



— F. E. Prescott-Decie . . . . . . 64 



Reports of Societies .. ... .. .. ... .. 67 



Notes and Observations — Dasycampa rubiginea — R. E. Hallett Todd, 



Stettin Vicarage, Ashby-de-la-Zouche . . . . . . 70 



Cirrhoedia xerampelina '.. .. .. .. .. .. 71 



The Sun Fish at Wisbeach — Albert Waters, Cambridge .. .. 71 



Egg Parasites — F. Milton, Stamford Hill, N. .. .. .. .. ,71 



Teleuomus Phalanarum. Nees — G. C. Bignell, Stonehouse, Plymou;h .. 71 



Reparing Insects— F. Milton .. .. .. .. 71 



Hawfinch Breeding near Warrington — Linnaeus Greening .. .. 72 



Hibernation of Sphingidse — J.C.Warburg, Cannes, South France .. .. 72 



Ermines in Suffolk— Eden A. Sharp, Newmarket, Suffolk .. .. .. 72 



On the probable Origin of Deilephila Galii— C. H. Briggs .. . . 73 



Gossiping Notes on British Coleoptera — G. A. Lewcock . . . . . . 75 



The Pterophorina (continued) — J. W. Tutt, F.E.S. . . .. .. 79 



TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



Mr. G. A. Lewcock, 73, Oxford Koad, Islington, N., Hon. Sec, City of 

 London Entomological and Natural Histoiy Society, lias kindly consented to 

 represent the magazine in London. Mr. J. Mackay, 93, Dundas Street, t 

 Kingston, Glasgow, Secretary to the Clydesdale Naturalists' Society, will also 

 represent the magazine in that district. They will be glad to receive subscrip- 

 tions, advertisements, exchanges, or communications for publication. 



The March part owing to double supplement, plate, &c, was above two 

 ounces. The extra weight was not noticed in the Post Office here, but some 

 subscribers have been charged a penny short paid. Will they kindly deduct 

 same from next remittance. 



The continued illness of Mr. Walker has still longer delayed the plate, 

 but he is now at work upon it, and it will be issued, with the May part. 



To Coleopterists. Fifteen genera, will be comprised in the next division 

 of the " Gossiping Notes on British Coleoptera," viz.: — 



Clivina Polystichus Dromius Lebia 



Dyschirius Odacantha Blechrus Cymindis 



Brachinus A'etophorus Metabletns and 



Drypta Demetrias Lionychus Masoneus. 



Notes on any of these species will be welcomed by Mr. Lewcock. The 

 information may be sent to the Editor or direct to Mr. Lewcock, 73, Oxford 

 Eoad, Islington, N. 



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