Front cover photograph. The stiletto fly Thereva fulva new to Essex at Anchor Field in Thurrock © Peter Harvey Plate details for the 8 pages of colour plates at the end of the journal. Plate 1. Ancient oak at Herds Farm © Mark Hanson. Sec The 2004 AGM address. Veteran trees in Essex pp. 9-11 Plate 2. Pollards at Mundon ©Mark Hanson. See The 2004 AGM address. Veteran trees in Essex pp. 9-11 Plate 3. The froghopper Cercopis vulnerata © Peter Harvey. See Website forms and recording pp. 12-18 Plates 4. The Noble False-widow spider Steatoda nobilis © Peter Harvey. See Website forms and recording pp. 12-18 Plate 5. Ero aphana, a spider new to Essex © Peter Harvey See Ero aphana (Araneae: Mimetidae), a spider new to Essex pp. 47-49 Plate 6. Catharosia pygmaea, a rare tachinid fly © Peter Harvey. See Clytiomya continua and other important new Diptera: Tachinidae, records pp. 52-54 Plate 7. Cistogaster globosa, a Red Data Book tachinid fly new to Essex © Peter Harvey. See Clytiomya continua and other important new Diptera: Tachinidae records pp. 52-54 Plate 8. Clytiomya continua, a very rare fly and inset its host, the shieldbug Eurydema oleracea both © Peter Harvey. See Clytiomya continua and other important new Diptera: Tachinidae records pp.52-54 Plate 9. The rhopalid bug Stictopleurus abutilon, now widespread in Essex © Peter Harvey. See Stictopleurus abutilon (Rossi) and S. punctatonervosus (Goeze) (Hemiptera: Rhopalidae), new records mainly from Essex pp. 57-59 Plate 10. The rhopalid bug Stictopleurus punctatonervosus, now widespread in Essex © Peter Harvey. See Stictopleurus abutilon (Rossi) and S. punctatonervosus (Goeze) (Hemi- ptera: Rhopalidae), new records mainly from Essex pp. 57-59 Plate 11. Cocoon of the weevil Hypera pollux (provided by David Scott) © Peter Harvey. Sec Odynerus simillimus (Morawitz) in N.E. Essex 2004 p. 60 Plate 12. Gravelly bank at Gunpowder Park, the former Royal Ordnance Site © Peter Harvey. See Invertebrate survey at Gunpowder Park, the former Royal Ordnance Site in the Lee Valley pp. 89-116 Plate 13. Flower-rich Area C at Gunpowder Park, the former Royal Ordnance Site © Peter Harvey. See Invertebrate survey at Gunpowder Park, the former Royal Ordnance Site in the Lee Valley pp. 89-116 Plate 14. PFA pond in Osier Marsh at Gunpowder Park, the former Royal Ordnance Site © Peter Harvey. See Invertebrate survey at Gunpowder Park, the former Royal Ordnance Site in the Lee Valley pp. 89-116 Plate 15. Musk Beetle Aromia moschata at Gunpowder Park, the former Royal Ordnance Site © Peter Harvey. See Invertebrate survey at Gunpowder Park, the former Royal Ord- nance Site in the Lee Valley pp. 89-116 Plate 16. The Pink Waxcap Hygrocybe calyptriformis © Tony Boniface. See The waxcap fungi of Essex pp. 131-141