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example and descrilbes it {Proc. F.nt. Snc. WcisJi., xiv., pp. AiO ft seq.) in 

 <letail. He finds it to be a true Sphingid, not more nearly related to 

 the Ceratocanipids than any other Sphingid, and with all the primary 

 larval tubercles represented by spines except tubercle ii on abdomen, 

 vii on the 7th and 8th abdoinincil segments, and viii on all apodal 

 segments. A full account of the early instars of this curious larva is 

 much to be desired. 



In the Pi'Hc. Ent. Sor. Wash., iv,, pp. 414 et .<t<'r/., Dyar describes 

 the life-history of the Epiplemid, Calliilantfri/j- (Inpipterata, Grt. The 

 structure of Qgg and larva suggest that it belongs to the Hepialo- 

 Noctuid stirps in spite of its remarkable apparent Geometrid affinities, 

 Dyar further gives a revisional phylogenetic tree of the upright-egged 

 stirps, certainly the best and most logical that has yet been offered us. 

 With the exception that we should exchange the position of the 

 KpipUDiidae and Thyafiridae, should possibly place the Pcrico/ddae on 

 the Arctiid branch, and should move the Xolidai' above the Geometrid 

 and Lachneid branches, we see no real objection to it. The arrange- 

 ment is, with these one or two exceptions, practically that which we 

 are using in our own work. 



Dyar further gives an interesting account [Pmc, EnU Soc, Wash,, v., 

 pp. 48 ft seq.) of a lepidopteron, E^jtipurops barbfriana, n.sp., the larva of 

 which appears to be parasitic on a leafhopper species near hsns anro- 

 rfi(s, Uhler. Westwood gives {Trans, Ent, Soc. Land., 1876, p. 519) 

 an account of a lepidopteron, Epipyrops anomala, found living on 

 Etdffora ainddaria at Hong Kong, and later (Inc, cit., 1877, p. 433) 

 cited instances of an analogous species observed by Ansen in a Fulgorid 

 of the genus Aphaena, in the Dillrang Valley, and by Wood-Mason 

 upon another Fulgorid, pjiirybyachus sjdnosa. Champion recorded 

 {Proc. Ent. Sfic. Lond., 1883, p. xx) the occurrence of Epipymps larvae 

 on some of the smaller Fulgorids in Central America, but the larvae 

 were apparently not bred. 



Yet another most interesting paper " Oa the fluctuations of the 

 postspiracular tubercle in Noctuid larvae" [Proc. I'lnt. Soc. Wash., iv., 

 p. 370) has been published by Dyar. One would like to have seen the 

 results throAvn into a tree for comparative purposes, with the generalised 

 ?ind specialised branches of each tribe well shown by marking the 

 genera. 



At the meeting of the Ent. Soc. of London, held on October 1st, 

 Dr. Chapman read a paper on Hetero/iy)iis paradnxa. The paper 

 reported that at Bejar. amongst other brooms, Cytisna puryans and 

 (ifnista finyida abounded, and on these Hfteroyynis paradoxa was found, 

 and, excepting also Cytisus scoparius, the larvag would eat no other plant. 

 Owing to this fact and the apterousness of the female, and the sluggish- 

 ness of the male, it resulted that three separate colonies of the species 

 were found, absolutely segregated from each other, though two of them 

 were only four or five miles apart, each colony presenting definite 

 differences in larval colouring, tune of appearance, size and colour of 

 imago, and in the habit of concealment or otherwise in both the larval 

 and pupal stages, as well as imagines. The differences between H. 

 peyidla and H. paradoxa were also noted, of which the most unmis- 

 takable was the occurrence in the 1st stage larva of //. paradoxa of very 

 rem irkable secondary tubercles, of which no trace existed in that of 

 H. pen.dla. 



At the meeting of the City of London Entomological and Natural 



