Contents
Part 1: Essex Field Club Transactions and reports
Report of the Essex Field Club for 1995/96 ................................ 1
Income and expenditure account for 1995 ................................ 3
Balance sheet for 1995................................................ 4
Auditor's report for 1995 .............................................. 4
The 1996 Presidential Address: Natural History of the Tilbury area:
historical legacy Roger Payne .......................................... 5
From the Club's Recorders:
Some algae from Hatfield Forest new to the Essex records
J H Belcher and E M F Swale.......................................... 11
Lichens J F Skinner................................................... 13
Neuropteroidea in Essex C W Plant...................................... 15
Macrolepidoptera in Essex in 1995 B Goodey .............................. 17
New and interesting Essex gall records J P Bowdrey ......................... 19
Some notable hoverflies found in Essex since 1990 R G Payne ................ 20
New and interesting amphibian and reptile records for Essex in 1995 D R Scott ... 22
Some interesting Hymenoptera records for 1995 P R Harvey.................. 23
Some interesting spider records for 1995 P R Harvey ........................ 28
Grasshoppers, crickets and allied insects in Essex A Wake.................... 31
New and interesting records of Essex Hemiptera P Kirby ..................... 32
Post 1974 Additions to the Bryophyte and Higher Plant Floras of the Watsonian
Vice-Counties of North (vc.19) and South (vcl8) Essex K J Adams........... 34
Part 2: Contributed papers
A provisional list of the bees, wasps and ants (Hymenoptera: Aculeata) of Essex
P R Harvey and C W Plant ........................................... 43
The bramble flora of Epping Forest A Bull ................................ 115
The natural history of the Thames Terraces at West Tilbury
R G Payne and P R Harvey ........................................... 121
Moss and liverwort families of south-east England
Part 1: Plagiotheciaceae K J Adams .................................... 131