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greater amount of the specific characters of the insect selected as 

 the generic t^'pe. 



Descriptions of some new species of Charaxes and Cyligi^amma 

 rom Madagascar, by M. Lucas, have appeared in the ' Annales 

 des Sciences Naturelles,' t. xv. 



Descriptions and figures of various new species of Morpho have 

 been published by M. De3'rolle, in the ' Revue de Zoologie,' with 

 X)lates. 



The indefatigable Lepidopterist, Mr. W. F. Kirby, has read a 

 memoir, on the ocellated silkworm moths of the family Saturnidie, 

 before the Royal Dublin Society, on the 18th March, 1872, in 

 which thirty-six species are enumerated, and notes added on the 

 economy of some of the species. 



Mr. F. Moore, whose attention has long been specially directed 

 to the Lepidoptera of the East, has given us an extended memoir 

 containing descrij^tions and figures of a number of new Indian 

 species, both of butterflies and moths, in the * Illustrated Pro- 

 ceedings of the Zoological Society of London,' ICth April, 

 1872. 



A description and figure of a curious Nocturnal Lepidopterous 

 insect was published by Mr. Butler, in the ' Annals of Natural 

 History,' under the name of Tarsolepis remicauda, which has 

 given rise to an angr}' discussion between himself and M. Ritsema, 

 who has considered it as identical with the Crinodes Sommeri of 

 Hiibner. 



The water bugs of the subfamily Belostomides, divided into 

 eleven genera, by Dr. Gustav Majr, appears in the ' ZooL 

 & Botan. Ver.,' Vienna, 1871. 



Further portions of M. Signoret's elaborate memoir on the 

 Coccidpe have appeared in the French ' Annales.' 



The descriptions of a tenth century of the Diptera of North 

 America, by Dr. Loew, has appeared in the ' Berliner Entomolo- 

 gische Zeitschrift,' during the past year. 



Descriptions of fourteen new species of the Dipterous Genus 

 Sciara by Winnertz, are published in the * Vienna Zool. & Bot. 

 Ver.,' 1871. 



A very interesting little fresh-water animal has recently been 

 described and figured by Dr. C. T. Hudson, LL.D., under the 

 name of Pedalion mora, belonging to the Rotifera, and yet pos- 

 sessing several peculiarities which seem to connect that curious 



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