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Schmidt, near Laybach, upon Ccramanthc (Scrophularia) vcrna ; Acontla 

 Urania, Friv., from Turkey ; Miselia compurcata, Fuchs, from the Ural, 

 perhaps a variety of M. filigramma, Er. 



Eversmaun (Bull. Mosc. 591, pi. 14, 15) has described, of new 

 species, Agrotis lutescens, Noctua quadrangula, Gortyna cervago, from the 

 spurs of the Ural, Plusia renardi, from Eastern Siberia, PL dices, from 

 Irkutsk. 



Donzel (Arm. Soc. Ent. Er. ii, 199, pi. 6, n. ii) has characterized a new 

 species, Folia felicina, taken in the neighbourhood of Marseilles. 



Metzner (Ent. Zeit. 167) has made some remarks on the occurrence of 

 Noctua Iiaworthi, Curt., and the names which have been applied to this 

 species. In Germany it was first found by Zeller, near Erankfort on the 

 Oder, in a wet peat moss. The caterpillar is still unknown. 



Freyer has figured (Bcitr.) the following moths in all their states : 

 Siinyra venosa, Plusia modesta, Catocala mipta, Cucullia hici/uga, ceramanthea 

 (see above), Triphtena serotina, Cerastis glabra. Eversmaun (Bull. Mosc. 

 604, pi. 16, f. 4) gives the caterpillar of Cucullia santonici [which lives upon 

 Artemisia repeus]. Bruaud has described that of Spaelotis tiyctemera 

 (simulatrix, Hiibu.) which lives on Festuca ovina, and will feed on Poa 

 anuua also, and that of Caradrina respersa, Ochs., which lives on grasses 

 and the white houseleek. (Ann. Soc. Ent. Er. ii, 192, pi. 6, n. 1, c, d.) 



Boisduval has inserted in the same (p. 70) a communication he received 

 from Hungary respecting the caterpillar of Noctua comnmnimacula. Like 

 that of Limacodes, of which genus more than forty species are known, 

 mostly American, it lives in the leaves of almond and cherry trees curled 

 up as the effect of Aphides sucking them, and feeds upon these insects. 

 Boisduval having in consequence compared the moth with North American 

 species of Limacodes is perfectly satisfied that it belongs to the same genus. 



GEOMETIUE. Eversmann (Bull. Mosc. 597, pi. 15. f. 43) has figured 

 Acidalia curata and formosaria, the first from Eastern Siberia, the 

 second from the province of Kasan and the spurs of the Ural. A very 

 dissimilar figure of the latter is given by Freyer (Beitr. p. 338), along with 

 which Fidonia desertaria, Ev., Acidalia extersaria (not extensaria) Ev., 

 and Cidaria burgaria, Ev., from Casan, are- represented ; and in pi. 426 

 varieties of Acid, dubitaria and dilutana, and pi. 414, the earlier states of 

 Emwmos dolabraria. 



The following " Loopers" from the Himalaya are described by Kollar 

 (Hug. Kaschm. 486-491) : Geometra lyccenaria, Aspilates phceniceotfeniata , 

 peregrina, Acidalid adumbrata, Cidaria propinquata, albigirata, subangulata, 

 Zerene leopardina, Idcea kyalinata. 



PYKALIDES. Also from the Himalaya are Hypena obliqualis, Scapula 

 lis, Boli/x mtcllinalis, Asopia clongalis, Kollar (ib. 491-423.) 



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