310 Bibliographical Notices. 



11. Appellof. — "Om skalet^ bildnino^ hos Sepia officinalis, L.," 



Kongl. Svenska Vetensk.-Akad. Forhandl. xliv. No. 7, p. 495. 

 (Communicated Sept. 14, published Oct. or Nov. ? 1887.) 



12. V. Lendenfeld. — " Bemerkunj^ zu Eiefstalil's Wachsthurastheorie 



der Cepbalopoden-Schalen,'" Zool. Jabrb. Abtb. fiii- Svst. Geogr. 

 u. Biol. &c., iii. Bd. 2 Heft (Jeua, 15tb Jan., 1888). 



13. CoRNisu AND Kendall. — "Mineral Constitution of Calcareous 



Organisms," Geol. Mag. dec. iii. vol. v. p. 66 [Cephalopoda, p. 71], 

 Feb. 1888. 



14. Batheb. — " The Evolution of the Cephalopoda." Read March 2, 



1888, at Geol. Assoc, and to be published shortly. 



BIBLIOGUAPHICAL NOTICES. 



A Catalogue of the Moths of India. Compiled by E. C, Cotes and 

 Colonel C. Swinhoe. Part I. Sphinges ; Part II. Bombyces. 

 Printed by order of the Trustees of the Indian Museum. Cal- 

 cutta, 1887. 



This Catalogue, of which the first two parts have reached this 

 country, is a very valuable addition to the literature of the Hetero- 

 c'erous Lepidoptera of India, and will be extremely useful to scien- 

 tific workers and collectors both at home and in India. Colonel 

 Swinhoe, during his recent visit to England, spared no pains or 

 trouble in his endeavours to name his specimens from such of the 

 types as were available for the purpose. The first part of the 

 Catalogue is devoted to the Sphingidse, of which 187 species are 

 recorded from various parts of India and Ceylon. Judging from this, 

 the collection in the Calcutta Museum must be a very poor one, only 

 81 species being represented in it ; so that no attempt could be 

 made to investigate the value of the many very closely allied forms 

 that have been named without any regard to variation or geogra- 

 phical distribution. Take, for instance, the genera Macroglossa, 

 Fen/esa, and Triptogon. On page 2 under Hemaris hylas is in- 

 cluded Macroglossa Kingi, McLeay, from xlustralia. This is, however, 

 a most distinct species, and one that could not in any case be con- 

 founded with H. hylas. 



In Part II. of the Catalogue, which contains the Bombyces, 1436 

 species are included, of which only 308 are represented in the Cal- 

 cutta Museum. In this section the arrangement of the various 

 families is somewhat erratic. For example, the Notodontida? 

 are placed between the Bombycidse and the Drepanulidae, and 

 the Saturniida3 are arranged almost at the end of the Bombyces, 

 next to the Cossida?. Among the Agaristidaj we note that 

 Eusemia opheltes from North Burma (P. Z. S. 1885, p. 518) is 

 omitted. In the family Chalcosiidse the authors have placed a 

 species in the genus Dioptis ; but that genus, so far as we are 

 aware, is entirely confined to the New World. It was raised to 

 the rank of a family by the late Mr. Walker under the name 



