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Boyer de Fonscolombe (ibid. Ix) has made some remarks about 

 Dicranura vinula, and Lasiocampa lineosa. In the former he thinks that the 

 moth keeps a round head-cap in front of the chrysalid shell to enable it to 

 pierce through the hard cocoon ; at least he constantly found such a piece in 

 front of the hole, when the moth had made its way out. Las. liueosa, 

 which is gregarious on cypress trees, is easy to rear. The cocoons are like 

 those of L. piiii. 



Bertolini. (De duobus insectis Ulmo campestri et Pyro malo infensis, 

 Nov. Comm. Acad. Sc. Inst. Bouou. vi, 1844, p. 460). The insect injurious 

 to apple trees is Cosstis asculi, represented in all its states in plate 30. 



Freyer (Ent. Zeit. 29, 397) relates what, he has observed of the natural 

 history of Orgyia selenitica. 



Heriug (ibid. 415) has distinguished a new species, Lithosia arideola, 

 which he has reared, and which differs in various points from both L. coin- 

 plana and L. lurideola, the two species which resemble it most. 



Kollar (Hug. Kasclnn. 470-473, pi. 21) gives the following new Bom- 

 bycidpe from the Himalaya Mountains, Lilians chrysolopha, xanthorrJuea, 

 vitellina, GastropacJia sulphurea, kaschmirensis, velutina. 



NOCTILE. Kollar (ibid. 477) has proposed a new genus, Arete, with 

 the body stout, nearly cylindrical, the thorax thickly clothed with long 

 hairs, which nearly conceal the head ; the feelers of moderate length, 

 setaceous, simple ; the palps short, applied to the forehead, with the last 

 joint very short and scarcely discernible. A spiral trunk. The legs bearded 

 with long hairs, except the feet. The wings not broad, dark-coloured, the 

 hind pair with blue bands. A. polygrapha, new species, from the Himalaya. 

 The new species of established genera are Erebus albicinctus, chymista, 

 dasypterus, leucostigma, Opltlusa discios, Caradrina himalejica, Trachea 

 melanospila, Agrotis biconica, exigita, Ph/sia ctelotiota, Folia scotochlora. ' 



Freyer has figured the following new Noctuse, some of them indicated 

 by name in Boisduval's Catalogue, Hadena groenlandica, B., Folia caeru- 

 Icscens, B., Cucidlia xeranihemi, B., C. ceramantheee, Schmidt, with its 

 caterpillar, most nearly related to C scrophulariae, discovered by Ferd. 



spatio coufecto deciclit exanimis. Abdomen prius lauugiuosuin maxirne 

 quod fuerat peracto coitu giaberrimum evadit. Auctor, dissecto sacculo, 

 abdomen maris auimadvertit porrectum esse sub pectus feminse in fundum 

 sacculi reductse, pene lougo fistuloso in vulvam hujus ab infra immisso. 

 Miter vero res se habet cum Ps. febretta, teste Ghilianio 1. 1. femina 

 quippe corpore medio extra sacculum prorcpit ad occursum mariti. 

 Pierrctus docuit quoquc (ibid.) Orgyius $ apteras (e. g. rupestris, Iri- 

 tophus), ad coit urn ]>ari modo sc pra-bere intra telum latitantes ovipositorc 

 ta)itu)ii foras extruso. 



