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2. Dirty brown (sand-colour, as we ordinarily term it): As- 
trorhiza arenaria, Norman, or ‘‘ Orthocerine Lituola”’ of 
Carpenter. 
3. Rust-coloured or ferruginous, the tint (a) dark: Cyclam- 
mina cancellata, Brady, MS. (8) rich and ruddy: Z’o- 
chammina trregularis, the tadpole-shaped form figured, 
Carpenter, Introd. Foram. pl. xi. fig. 6; Trochammina 
gordialis, P. & J.; and Astrorhiza catenata, Norman. 
(c) pale: Letuola canariensis, D’Orb., and the forms 
mentioned under B. 
4. Grey: see A, 4. 
3. Very dark, almost black, as in an abyssal Foraminifer 
which seems to be identical with the fossil Nodosaria 
Schlichtii, Reuss. 
6. Green: the green sarcode in living specimens is often very 
vivid. I have an undescribed scale-like form which has 
been dead eleven years; yet on being wetted the green 
colouring is most conspicuous. 
The above brief notes will give some notion of the wonder- 
ful skill displayed by these little architects. I have made no 
allusion to the very great variety of form in their dwellings ; 
and inasmuch as the greater number of the species from which 
these Notes are drawn remain still undescribed, I have only 
been able to illustrate my meaning by reference to a few 
named species. Brief as the Notes are, I have thought that 
they would have interest at the present moment as connected 
with structures built by Haliphysema, Technitella, and Mar- 
stpella. 
XXXII.— Descriptions of new Species of Heterocera from 
Japan.—Part II. Noctuites. By Arruur G. BUTLER, 
PAauSeg BAS.) &e: 
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Amphipyride. 
134. Amphipyra erebina, n. sp. 
Allied to A. perflua, but rather smaller, more sericeous ; 
the primaries with the inner zigzag stripe obscured, the outer 
stripe less white and not so regularly dentate-sinuate, the ex- 
ternal area greyer, with the markings less distinct; a blackish 
lunate subapical patch: secondaries dark grey instead of pale 
brown; fringe and marginal edge sordid whitish. Wings below 
streaked with grey, the discal band darker and more sharply 
