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this historic event.—Mr. A. W. Hughes exhibited Phigalia pilosaria, 
including a pale olive unicolorous variety, from Eastham, also 
Hybernia leucophearia and var. marmorinaria from the same locality ; 
he further reported that Nyssza zonaria had been plentiful at Crosby. 
—Wmn. Manssrince, Hon. Sec. 
RECENT LITERATURE. 
Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalene in the British Museum. 
Vol. xii. By Sir Gzeorcre F. Hampson, Bart. Pp. i-xiv, 1-609. 
London: Printed by order of the Trustees. 1913. 
In this volume, the tenth dealing with Noctuidex, the genera and 
species of Catocalinz remaining over from vol. xii. receive treatment, 
and the subfamilies Mominz and Phytometrinz are considered. 
Altogether 70 genera and 679 species are here classified, and of 
these.379 species in 44 genera are assigned to Catocaline ; 11 genera 
and 74 species to Momine and 15 genera with 226 species to 
Phytometrine. 
The largest genera of the Catocaline now considered are Safia, 
Guen. (53 sp.), Zale, Hb. (49 sp.), and Mocis, Hb. (31 sp.). 
Sir George Hampson does not accept Hiibner’s ‘Tentamen’ 
names for genera, Huclidia, Hb., is therefore rejected. He finds 
that fia, Fab.,is the type of Huclidia, Treit., and that the latter 
name will therefore supersede Synthynua, Hb. (a genus belonging to 
the Acronyctine, vol. ix., p. 372). The species usually referred to 
Euclidia are here placed under Huclidimera, Hamps. (type md, 
Clerck), or Gonospileza, Hb. (type munita, Hb.). Glyphica, Linn., is 
included in the latter genus. 
In Mocis, Hb., are included Pelamia, Guen. (t. phasaianoides, 
Guen.), Remigia, Guen. (t. frugalis, Fabr.), Baratha, Walk. (disse- 
verans, Walk.), and Cauninda, Moore (t. undata, Fb.). 
‘“ Catephia”’ trifasciata, an Australian species described as a 
British insect by Stephens (Ill. Brit. Ent. Haust., vol. ii., p. 128), is 
assigned to Mocis. 
Twenty-one of the species comprised in Mominz belong to 
Trisuloides, Butl. (t. sericea, Butl.), which includes Tambana, Moore 
(t. varvegata, Moore), and Anacroniata, Warren (t. caliginea, Butl.). 
Cenobita, Esp., is the type of Diphthera, Ochs., also of Panthea, 
Hb., both of these names, together with Auwdela, Walk., and Platy- 
cerusa, Pack., fall under Dephthera, Treit. (t. cenobita, Esp.). 
In this connection it may be mentioned that alpinum, Osbeck = 
orion, Esp., so frequently referred to Diphthera, Hb., has been trans- 
ferred to Daseocheta, Warren (Phal., viii., p. 30). 
Coryli, Linn., is the type of Demas, Steph. (1829), and also of 
Calocasia, Hb. (1827); the latter takes precedence. 
In Phytometrine the largest genera are Syngrapha, Hb. (31 sp.), 
and Phytometra, Haw. (158 sp.). The majority of the species 
hitherto referred to Plusia are here placed under Phytometra, Haw. 
(t. festuc@, Linn.). 
Some 450 species are depicted in colour on the eighteen plates 
forming the Atlas issued with this volume. 
