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ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
Sphinx harrisii. Grote remarks upon the synonymy of this species. Xa- 
para homhycoides (Walk.) is identical with it (ibid. p. 115). 
Depuiset confirms Erichson’s opinion that Deiliphila esulce is founded 
upon fabricated specimens. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1808, pp. xxviii-xxix. 
KUnckel maintains that the D. esulw is a dark variety of D. euphorhice, ibid. 
Sphinx convolvuli. Ilellins publishes (Ent. M. Mag. v. pp. 100-102) some 
observations on its occurrence in Britain, and on its mode of life. 
Scsia thetis^ sp. n. (Boisd. MS.), Grote and Kobinson, Trans. Amer. Ent. 
Soc. i. p. 325, pi. 0. fig. 30, California. 
Sesia axillaris, sp. n., Grote and Robinson, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. ii. 
p. 180, Texas. 
Sesiida:. 
Sesia cephiformis (Staud.) was bred by A. Hartmann, from knots on the 
twigs and branches o£ Jimiperus communis (Stott, out. Zoit. 1808, p. lOi)). 
IIopLEY and IIealy notice white-belted examples of Scsia culiciformis. 
Ent. M. Mag. iv. p. 183. 
J. Bryant notices a yellow-banded variety of Sesia culiciformis. Ent. M. 
Mag. iv. p. 234. 
j^yeria exitiosa (Say) and JE. tipuliformis (Linn.). On the habits of these 
species see Walsh, Bract. Entom. i. pp. 27, 28, & 29. 
Zenodoxus, g. n., Grote and Robinson, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. ii. p. 183. 
Allied to Scsia \ head smaller, and thorax stouter ; antennae with long fringes j 
hind wings closely scaled. Sp. Z. macidipes, sp. n., p. 184, Texas. 
jEgeria pictipes, sp. n., Grote and Robinson, 1 . c. p. 182, pi. 2. fig. 0^1, 
Pennsylvania. 
Castniidas. 
Alxjpia. Grote and Robinson (Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. i. pp. 320-328) 
notice the North- American species of this genus, of which they describe 
several as new. 
Castnia inca (Walk.). Frauenfeld records the capture of an example of 
this insect in the gardens at Miramar. Vorh. zool.-bot. Ges. in Wien, xviii. 
p. 157. 
Alypia. Grote and Robinson describe the following new species of this 
genus from California (Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. i.) : — A. dipsaci, 1. c. p. 320, 
pi. 0. fig. 37 ; A. sacramcnti, 1. c. p. 327, pi. 0. fig. 38 j A. lorquinii, 1. c. 
p. 328, pi. 0. fig. 39 ; and A. mariposa, 1. c. p. 329, pi. 0. fig. 40. 
Euschirrhoqiterus gloveri, sp. n., Grote and Robinson, Trans. Amer. Ent. 
Soc. ii. p. 186, Texas. 
ZYGiENIDiE. 
Callalucia (Grote) = Gnophcela (Walk.), according to Grote and Robinson 
(Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. i. p. 331). The species referred to it by them are 
G. {cquinoctialis (Walk.), G. vermicidata (Grote), and a new species. 
Ilorama texana {(jmi&)—Etichromia plumipes (Clem, nec Drury) according 
to Grote (Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. ii. p. 110). 
Zeller (Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. in Wien, xviii. pp. 575-578) notices the 
peculiarities of some Carinthian specimens of Zygccna lonicercc, and indicates 
the variations of Z. mcdicaginis taken by him in Carinthia. He doubts the 
distinctness of Z,. transalpi-na (H.-Sch.) from the latter species. 
