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  M. 
  Bruand 
  has 
  published 
  a 
  memoir 
  on 
  the 
  Psychides 
  in 
  the 
  ' 
  Proceedings 
  of 
  the 
  

   Society 
  of 
  Emulation 
  of 
  Doubs,' 
  in 
  which 
  the 
  author 
  considers 
  that 
  the 
  species 
  form 
  

   but 
  one 
  group, 
  which 
  should 
  be 
  placed 
  among 
  the 
  Tineides, 
  and 
  ihat 
  they 
  consist 
  of 
  

   the 
  four 
  genera 
  Typhonia, 
  Heterogyna, 
  Psyche 
  and 
  Psychoides. 
  

  

  A 
  revision 
  of 
  the 
  British 
  species 
  of 
  Psyche, 
  by 
  M. 
  Bruand, 
  appears 
  in 
  the 
  ' 
  Zoolo- 
  

   gist,' 
  February, 
  1852. 
  P. 
  reticella, 
  Neivm. 
  is 
  new 
  ; 
  P. 
  radiella. 
  Curt. 
  = 
  puUa, 
  Esper 
  ; 
  

   P. 
  nitidella, 
  Sleph. 
  = 
  intermediella 
  ; 
  P. 
  fenella, 
  Neivm. 
  = 
  opacella, 
  H.-Sch. 
  ; 
  and 
  P. 
  

   nigricans, 
  Curt, 
  appears 
  to 
  be 
  distinct 
  from 
  villosella. 
  

  

  Three 
  new 
  French 
  species 
  of 
  Psyche 
  are 
  described 
  by 
  M. 
  Boisduval, 
  Ann. 
  Soc. 
  

   Ent. 
  Fr. 
  1852. 
  xxii. 
  

  

  A 
  note 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Weaver 
  on 
  the 
  supposed 
  distinction 
  between 
  Sterrhopteryx 
  opa- 
  

   cella 
  and 
  specimens 
  reared 
  from 
  cased 
  larvae 
  found 
  in 
  Scotland, 
  appears 
  in 
  the 
  Proc. 
  

   Ent. 
  Soc. 
  Lond. 
  November, 
  1851, 
  and 
  February, 
  1852.* 
  

  

  LiTHosiiDiE.— 
  A 
  memoir 
  by 
  Schreiner 
  on 
  Lithosia 
  depressa 
  and 
  helveola, 
  appears 
  

   in 
  the 
  Ent. 
  Zeit. 
  of 
  Stettin, 
  April, 
  1852, 
  and 
  a 
  translation 
  thereof 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Douglas, 
  ap- 
  

   pears 
  in 
  our 
  ' 
  Proceedings 
  ' 
  for 
  May, 
  1852. 
  

  

  NocTUiDiE. 
  — 
  M. 
  Guenee 
  having 
  undertaken 
  portions 
  of 
  the 
  great 
  work 
  of 
  M. 
  Bois- 
  

   duval, 
  'Species 
  generale 
  des 
  Lepidopteres,' 
  has 
  published 
  the 
  descriptions 
  of 
  the 
  

   NoctuidiE 
  (Nocluelites) 
  in 
  three 
  volumes, 
  containing 
  2000, 
  with 
  figures 
  of 
  a 
  great 
  num- 
  

   ber 
  of 
  species. 
  The 
  chief 
  demerit 
  of 
  the 
  work 
  is 
  the 
  want 
  of 
  tabular 
  lists 
  of 
  the 
  genera, 
  

   and 
  of 
  short 
  Latin 
  characters 
  of 
  species. 
  The 
  preface 
  and 
  introduction 
  occupy 
  96 
  

   pages, 
  of 
  which 
  one 
  half 
  is 
  devoted 
  to 
  a 
  review 
  of 
  the 
  works 
  of 
  preceding 
  Lepido- 
  

   pterisls. 
  

  

  A 
  continuation 
  of 
  Heinemann's 
  memoir 
  on 
  the 
  Lepidoptera 
  of 
  Brunswick, 
  con- 
  

   taining 
  the 
  Noctuidte, 
  with 
  notes 
  on 
  the 
  habits 
  and 
  transformations 
  of 
  various 
  species, 
  

   is 
  given 
  in 
  the 
  Stettin 
  Ent. 
  Zeit. 
  for 
  February, 
  1852. 
  

  

  A 
  memoir 
  by 
  M. 
  Graslin, 
  upon 
  two 
  new 
  species 
  of 
  Leucania 
  found 
  in 
  the 
  west 
  

   of 
  France, 
  and 
  on 
  a 
  new 
  species 
  of 
  the 
  same 
  genus 
  from 
  the 
  south 
  of 
  France, 
  has 
  ap- 
  

   peared. 
  

  

  Geometrid^. 
  — 
  A 
  note 
  by 
  Freyer 
  on 
  Alpine 
  Lepidoptera, 
  with 
  descriptions 
  of 
  se- 
  

   veral 
  new 
  species 
  of 
  Geometridae, 
  and 
  a 
  notice 
  of 
  a 
  specimen 
  of 
  Geometra 
  dilucidaria, 
  

   having 
  the 
  body 
  of 
  a 
  male 
  and 
  the 
  antennae 
  of 
  a 
  female, 
  appear 
  in 
  the 
  Stettin 
  Ent. 
  

   Zeit. 
  for 
  May, 
  1852. 
  

  

  A 
  paper 
  by 
  Zeller, 
  on 
  several 
  new 
  species 
  of 
  Geometridse, 
  appears 
  in 
  the 
  Ent. 
  

   Zeit. 
  of 
  Stettin 
  for 
  June, 
  1852. 
  

  

  A 
  translation 
  of 
  Koch's 
  note 
  on 
  the 
  habits 
  of 
  the 
  caterpillars 
  of 
  Phorodesmia 
  sma- 
  

   ragdaria, 
  has 
  been 
  given 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Douglas, 
  (Proc. 
  Ent. 
  Soc. 
  March, 
  1852). 
  

  

  * 
  I 
  find 
  no 
  distinction 
  between 
  the 
  males 
  of 
  these 
  two 
  supposed 
  species, 
  and 
  I 
  

   am 
  not 
  sure 
  whether 
  the 
  tufts 
  of 
  down, 
  spoken 
  of 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Weaver, 
  are 
  not 
  portions 
  of 
  

   the 
  inner 
  lining 
  of 
  the 
  larva-cases 
  abraded 
  by 
  the 
  action 
  of 
  the 
  body 
  of 
  the 
  female. 
  

   The 
  two 
  females 
  submitted 
  to 
  me 
  for 
  examination, 
  were 
  too 
  much 
  shrunk 
  up 
  to 
  

   allow 
  of 
  the 
  question 
  being 
  determined. 
  Had 
  they 
  been 
  placed 
  in 
  spirits 
  there 
  would 
  

   have 
  been 
  no 
  difficulty 
  in 
  settling 
  the 
  point 
  at 
  issue. 
  

  

  