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coupling-baskets used this time are not provided with paper, on account of 

 the high temperature of the season (August). The females when separated 

 from the male moths, instead of being replaced in baskets, are fastened with 

 a thread by one of their larger wings, and tied (leaving a few inches scope) 

 on bunches of fresh-cut branches with leaves, which are suspended by their 

 cut ends : on these branches the female moths will deposit their seed. The 

 rooms where the branches are kept suspended must be cool and well 

 ventilated. "When the worms are hatched the branches are straightway 

 carried to the bushes, upon which the worms are transferred at once, to 

 proceed through their successive stages tiU the formation of the cocoons." 



Papers read. 

 Mr. W. F. Kirby communicated the following " Synonymic Notes on 

 Lepidoptera " : — 



1. SPHINGIDiJ. 



" Under this title I propose from time to time to publish such corrections 

 of synonymy as may occur to me in the course of my studies, supple- 

 mentary to the three most recent Catalogues of the Order Lepidoptera — my 

 own of the Rhopalocera ; Mr. Walker's British Museum Catalogue of 

 the Heterocera; and Staudinger and Wocke's Catalogue of European 

 Lepidoptera. 



Perigonia (Sphinx) lusca, Fahr. Gen. Ins. p. 272 (1777). 



Calliomma (Sphinx) Parce, Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 543 (1776). S. Licastus, 

 Cram. t. 381, A. B. (1782). 



C. (Sphinx) Pluto, Cravi. i. 216, E. The Pluto of the Mus. Lesk. is 

 Pluto of Fabricius, not of Cramer. 



Chcerocampa Eson, Walk. The synonymy is as follows: — Thyelia, 

 vel Theylia, Linn. ; Boerhaviee, Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 542 ; Eson, Cram. 

 Walker quotes also Sphinx Pluto, Fabr. (nee Cram.), but erroneously. 

 I should be inclined also to doubt the identity of Thyelia, Linn., but have 

 not Clerck's figure to refer to. In this case Fabricius' name would have 

 the priority over Cramer's. 



Chcerocampa Clotho, Drury. Sphinx Clotho, Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 540 

 (nee Mant. and Syst. Ent.) is synonymous with Philampelus Labruscse. 



C. (Sphinx) Oldenlaudise, Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 542. Chcerocampa 

 argentata, Stejih. 



C. (Sphin.x) Lycetus, Cram. t. 61, D. 



Pergesa (Sphinx) Pluto, Fabr. (nee Cram.) Gen. Ins. p. 274 (1777); 

 Zschach, Mus. Lesk. p. 95, t. 3, f. 184. Sphinx Thorates, Hubn. 



DeilephUa (Sphinx) hneata, Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 541 (1775). Sphinx 

 Daucus, Cram. t. 125, D (1779). Confounded by Fabricius in his subse- 

 quent works with D. livornica ; but his original description is perfectly 

 clear, as remarked by Westwood in his ' British Moths.' 



