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A monograph on the genus Castnia and some allied lepidopteroiis 

 groups, by myself, is published in the 'Transactions of the Linnean 

 Society' (2nd ser. Zool., vol. i.), with five plates. Sixty-eight species 

 of Castnia, one of Orihia, seventeen of Synemon, one of Tascina 

 (n. g. from Singapore), and three of Hecatesia, are described, with 

 a supplement containing seven species of Othria (n. g.), four of 

 Datnias, one of Burgena, one of Hespagarista^ five of Rothia (n. g.), 

 one of j^giale, and one of Megathymus. 



Mr. A. G. Butler's elaborate revision of the Heterocerons 

 Lepidoptera of the family Sphingidce has been published in the 

 ninth volume of the ' Transactions of the Zoological Society.' 

 The species, 579 in number, are divided into eighty-five genera 

 and six sub-families. The memoir is illustrated with five excellent 

 plates of larvae and perfect mollis. 



Mr. W. F. Kirby has published a series of notes on African 

 SaturniidcB in the collection of the Royal Dublin Society, in Trans. 

 Ent. Soc, 1877, including four new species, one of which, 

 Eudcemonia argiphontes, is a remarkable insect closely allied to 

 but larger than Bomhyx hrachyura, Drury {argus, Stoll.) 



A memoir on the numerous species of the genus Catocala 

 found in North America appears in the ' Canadian Naturalist.' 



The Malayan moths of the genus Cleis {Damias p., Boisduval), 

 including ten species, are catalogued and described by Mr. Butler 

 in the 'Annals Nat. Hist.', May, 1877; as well as "Descriptions 

 of new Species of Lepidoptera-Heterocera from Japan," Part ii., 

 Noctuiies. Twenty-one species of Noctuida are here described. 



Hemiptera. 



The third part of the twentieth volume of the 'Transactions' of 

 the Entomological Society of the Netlierlands is occupied with the 

 continuation of the 'Proceedings' (Verslag) of the Society; and 

 contains also the memoir of Dr. Snellen van Vollenhoven on the 

 Heteropterous Hemiptera of Holland, which is continued and 

 terminated in the fourth part of the same 'Transactions,' the whole 

 having been subsequently published in a handsome volume entitled 

 'Hemiptera Heteroplera Neerlandica ; do inlandsche land en 

 Waterwantsen.' 



M. Signoret has completed his excellent work on the Coccidcs, 

 which has appeared from lime to time in the 'Annales' of the 

 French Entomological Society since ]8(J8, by the publication of a 



