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Eversmann (1. c.) has founded three new Siberian species ; L. ceelestina 

 and Fischeri, from the out ranges of the Ural, and L. Pheretiades, from the 

 Nor-Saisan. 



Lye. Edno, Doubleday (Dieffcnb. Trav. ii, p. 283, u. 110), is a new species, 

 from New Zealand. 



SPHINGES. Notice of the occurrence of hybrid individuals in the genus 

 SmerintJius. By Mr. Henry House, in a letter addressed to W. "Raddon, esq. 

 (Trans. Eut. Soc. Lond. iii, p. 193.) Description of a hybrid SmerintJius, 

 with remarks on hybridism in general. By J. O. Westwood (ib. p. 195.) 

 Mr. House obtained hybrids of Sm. populi < and ocellutus $ , which 

 were intermediate between both parents, but possessed only a small portion 

 of the beauty of either. They were entirely deficient, says the author, in 

 procreative power, and they appeared to occupy an intermediate position be- 

 tween the two sexes. Westwood has added a more particular description of 

 the hybrid, from which it appears that it is more closely connected with S. 

 populi in the anterior wings, and in other respects more with S. ocellatus. 



CHELONID^. Eversrnanu (1. c. t. x, f. 1 and 4) has figured two beau- 

 tiful new species of Eitprepia, from the southern spurs of the Altai : E. 

 intercalaris, resembling E. fasciata, but with red posterior wings ; and E. 

 glapliyra, not unlike the former, but small, and with the marking of E. 

 maailosa on the anterior wings. 



Graells (Ann. d. 1. Soc. Ent. d. Er. 2 ser. i, p. 359, pi. 12) has commu- 

 nicated his observations on the habits and metamorphosis of Chelonia 

 Latreillei. The larva subsists chiefly on the leaves of Plantago lanceolata. 

 The male Butterfly agrees in its habits with that of Trichiosoma, viz. in flying 

 wildly, like that, in the sunshine. 



Gueuee (ib. p. 45) reports that he has met with Zygan-a balearica Boisd., 

 in the west of Erance, corresponding in all respects with the Spanish species. 

 Whether it be a distinct species, or merely a variety of Z. Sarpedon, as sup- 

 posed by llambur, can only be determined from a knowledge of the larva. 



BOMBYCES. Observations on the Satumise occurring in Caruiola 

 and Cariutliia (S. Pyri, Spini, ceecigena) have been made by Kokeil. (Isis 

 p. 134.) 



Saturnia Perrotetii, Guerin (Mag. d. Zool. Ins., pi. 123), from Poudicherry, 

 resembles S. Puplna, but without a fenestrate spot, instead of which it presents 

 a rather small red ocellus in the centre of each wing. Another Indian 

 species is S. Zuleika, Hope (Trans. Lin. Soc. xix, p. 132, t. xi, f. 5), from 

 Sylhet. Saturnia Helena, and Janetta, White (Ann. Nat. Hist, xii, p. 

 344), are new Australian species. Sombyx Mariana, Wh. (ib. p. 264), 

 from the river Congo. 



Gastropacha has been enriched by Eversmann (1. c. p. 542, t. x, f. 2,) 

 with a new species, G. Eversmanm, Kind., which conies next to G.Medicagenis 



