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CHELONIDJE Zellcr (Entom. Zcit.) has made remarks, which deserve 

 ;ii trillion, on some species of Zyyaena. He considers Z.ephialtes as a climatic 

 local variety (with red markings) of Z. peucedani, which, like the primitive 

 species, extends furthest northwards, wliile in going southward it is replaced 

 by the variety with yellow markings (Z. coronilhe). Z. angelica, Ochs., has 

 been of late confounded with several other species. Thus Boisduval, in 

 his ' Moiiogr. Zygaeu.,' has given a small Z. filipendulae, but in the ' Icon. 

 Histor.' a Z. hippocrepidis as it. After Prof. Hering had found the whitish 

 caterpillars of Z. minos on Pimpinella saxifraga, he met with orange ones upon 

 Thymns serpyllum, from which proceeded a uiotli so like Z. minos that Zeller, 

 having accidentally put one among specimens of the latter, was not able 

 again to tell which was it, although the specimens which had been kept 

 apart had some distinctive marks. 



Freyer (ibid. 85) mentions, concerning Z. minos, that he once found the 

 white caterpillars of this species in abundance, and among them a few yellow 

 (Hies. They would only feed on the Pimpiuclla, though they bit the thyme 

 and other plants. The yellow caterpillars produced almost all females, 

 while males mostly, and scarcely any females, came from the white ones. 



Zygaenafavonia, Freyer (Beitr. pi. 428, f. 1), is a new species, from Turkey. 



Kollar (Hug Kaschm. 4-59-4G9, pi. 19-21) has given the following new 

 species from the Himalaya : Zygiena kaschmirensis, Syntomis diaphana, 

 bicincta, Chalcosia pulchella, leptalina, hyalina, selene, Asemiu adulatrLr, 

 K/'lnvpitt principals, equitalis, imperialis, leopardina (= Bombyx crotalaria, 

 F., syringa, Cr.) E. ? circus, E. ^-ramosa, erythrozona, casigneta, exclamationis. 

 He reunites the genus Campylotis, Westw., to Chalcosia, Hubn., as 

 synonymous. 



BOMBYCES. Boisduval (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. ii, Ixv) remarks that there 

 are two sections of the genus Psyche, in the one the ? is apterous indeed, 

 but the feelers and legs are fully formed, in the other the shape is quite like 

 a worm. It is also remarkable that the caterpillars of the male turn them- 

 selves round in their case before they turn into chrysalids, which is not the 

 case with the ? . The latter stretches the ovipositor out of the case, to be 

 impregnated ; the eggs are uniformly laid inside the case, and the young 

 caterpillars use the remains of it to make the first ones for themselves. 

 These accounts are in direct opposition to the observations of Maun, noticed 

 elsewhere, and although it seems to follow that the habits are ditferent in 

 the different species, tliis requires to be corroborated by repeated careful 

 observations.* 



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* De Psyche plumifera, Mannius modum coitus observavit. Immittit 

 mas silicct abdomen penitus in sacculum femineum, decimam horae isto situ 

 commoratus retrahit hoc pedeteutim, volitat ulterius, et passuum paucorum 



