Bihliographical Notice. 373 



wider one throuf^fh the cell, and another nearer the base, 

 black. Head above black, spotted with buff; thorax black, 

 with two lonp^itiulinal li^^ht bands on either side ; abdomen 

 above black, banded with olive, the extremity buff; palpi 

 beneath, thorax, abdominal bunds, hind surtuce of the coxa?, 

 and dorsal fringe of the hind tibiie orange-buflf, the rest of the 

 legs and antennaj black. 



The tegumen of the male secondary organs is split into two 

 flattened lobes, beneath which is a cylindrical rod, which may 

 be part of the scaphium ; the harpes are upturned and end in 

 a rounded lobe with a serrate edge ; on the inner surface of 

 the dorsal edge is a small lobe directed backwards, and on the 

 inner surface of each harpe nearer the base is an elongated 

 lobe with a strongly serrated dorsal edge. These organs, 

 though differing in several details of structure, are similar in 

 the main features to those of Amenis pionia. 



Exp. '2"2 inches. 



Female similar to the male, but rather larger and with more 

 rounded wings. 



Hob. Cajamarca, Peru, alt. 10,000 feet [0. T. Baron). 



BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE. 



The Fauna of British India, iacJiuUnr/ Ceylon and Burma. Pub- 

 lished under the authority of the Secretary of State for India in 

 Council. Edited by W. T. Blanford. Moths.— Yo\. III. By 

 G. F. Hajipson. 



Notwithstanding the almost phenomenal speed with which one 

 volume of the 'Moths of India' has followed another, this third 

 instalment is in no respect inferior to the previous ones. The keys 

 to the subfamilies and genera evidence the author's unflagging 

 industry ; and the illustrations, prepared under his supervision, 

 demonstrate his perfect knowledge of the anatomical differences 

 upon which these divisions are based. 



The present volume deals with the two remaining groups of 

 Noctuid;e — the Focillin» and Detoidinse, — also the three small 

 families, Epicopiidte, Uraniidte, and Epiplemida}, of which the author 

 remarks that they might perhaps be regarded as subdivisions of one 

 comprehensive family, the Uraniidte ; but by far the greater part of 

 the volume is occupied with the extensive family Geomctridae. In 

 his subdivision of this immense group of moths Mr. Hampson has 

 largely followed the classificatioii proposed by Mr. Meyrick for the 

 European genera of the family. 



Unmoved alike by the open disapproval of one class of lepido- 

 pterists and the praise of another, Mr. Hampson, with true scientific 

 stoicism, has continued to treat both genera and species precisely 

 in the same way in this as in the previous volumes : all genera 



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