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Hesperidce. — Freyer (Beitr.) has figured a series of species belonging 
to the genus Syrichthus, Boisd., but some of them I think are doubtful : 
H. crihellum, Ev. (t. 349, f. 1), is not different from H. tessellum, O. ; 
H. cynarce, Boisd. (ibid. f. 2), is certainly only a variety of H. carthami, 
with which it is united through imperceptible transitions ; also H. Ma- 
ruhii, Ramb., from Andalusia, can be hardly any thing else than a local 
variety of H. althece. 
Hesp. Benjaminii, Guerin (Deless. Souv. ii. p. 79, t. 22, f. 2), is a 
splendid new species from the Nilgherries. 
SpHiNGiDiE. — H. Doubleday (Entomol. p. 357) has related, that he 
found in his breeding cage Smerinthus ocellatus, male, and Sphinx 
ligiistri, female, in copula, whilst several individuals of both sexes, and 
both species, were found at the same time in the same cage. 
Guerin (Deless. Souv. ii. p. 80, t. 23, f. 1) has described Deilephila 
vigil, a new sphinx of Pondicherry, allied to the Sph. velox, F., and 
(p. 80) a variety of the Macroglossa hylas, from the Nilgherries. 
Sesiaui^. — Nickerl (Ent. Zeit. p. 68) has published his observations 
in correction of Ochsenheimer’s account, that the caterpillar of the Sesia 
culiciformis lives under the bark of birch trees, and never penetrates 
into the interior of the stem, whilst that of the S. mutillceformis lives 
in plum, apricot, and apple trees, and certainly never is found in the 
interior of the stem. Freyer has also given a figure of the former 
(Beitr. 61. Hft. t. 362, f. 2). The same author (ibid. f. 3, p. 132) has 
characterized a new species, S. serratiformis, from Hanover, which seems 
to me to be identical, according to the incomplete figure, with S. rhin~ 
giceformis, O. ; also two new species, S. triannuliformis (!) and miniani- 
formis (!!), from Turkey (t. 404) ; and lastly, Chimcera orbonata, Fr. 
(t. 351), from the Steppes at Sarepta. 
Chelonid^. — Freyer (Beitr.) has figured Euprepria simplonia, 
Boisd. Ind. (t. 392), but with the well-grounded remark (5 Bd. p. 16), 
that it may be only a variety of the E. maculosa ; similarly, in the Berlin 
collection, E. honesta, Fr. (t. 344), from Southern Russia, is arranged as 
a variety of E. maculosa ; E. matronalis, Fr., is also only a remarkable 
variety of E. plantaginis. On the other hand, E. intercisa, Fr., is a 
very marked species (already noticed by Pallas), (t. 356, with the cater- 
pillar), from the Salt Steppes of Southern Russia. 
Costa (Ann. d. 1. Soc. Ent. d. Fr. xi. p. 239, t. 9, f. 7, 8) has shown, 
that Callimorpha donna is only a local variety of O. dominula : it is 
found in Calabria ; another is found in the Abruzzi, which agrees with 
dominula in the markings on the wings, and the abdomen has the colour 
of donna. 
Guerin (Deless. Souv. ii. p. 83) has enriched the genus Gynautocera 
with five new species ; G. marginata, from the island of Penang (also 
native to Java); macularia, from Malacca; phalcenaria, from Java 
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