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Limacodes i^Lithacodes) rectilinea, Grote and Robinson, 1. c. p. 188, pi. 2. 
fig. 62, South Carolina. 
Adoneta pygmcea^ Grote and Robinson, /. c. p, 189, Texas. 
Psyche confederata, Grote and Robinson, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. ii. p. 191, 
pi. 3. figs. 66, 67 r d and case), Texas. 
Liparis japoniea (Motsch.) is probably a variety of L, dispar. Bullion, 
Stett. ent. Zeit. 1868, p. 168. 
Icthyura (sic) ornata^ Grote and Robinson, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. ii. 
p. 191, California. 
Arctiid^. 
Arctia nais (Iliibn.). The male of this species is A.phalerata (Ilarr.). A 
variety of the $ is A. decorata (Saund.), which is also described by Walker 
as Apantesis radians and Aloa colorata. Grote, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. ii. 
p. 117. 
PiiiTTWiTZ remarks (Stett. ent. Zeit. 1868, p. 185) that his Callimorpha 
venm is quite distinct from Eucyane arnica (Cram.), but perhaps identical 
with C.Jida (Hiibn.), which has been regarded as synonymous with the 
latter. 
S. Ebrard obtained two generations of Chelonia villica in 1867. Bull. 
Soc. Ent. Fr. 1868, p. xl. 
J. A. Forster notices an example of cannibalism in the larvae of Chelmia 
caja. Entomologist, iv^. pp. 93, 94. See also Miss Newman, ibid. p. 104. 
Epicallia viryinalis (Boisd.) is figured by Grote and Robinson, Trans. 
Amer. Ent. Soc. i. pi. 6. fig. 42. They refer to the same genus Ayarista 
guttata (Boisd.). 
Arctia dahurica (Boisd.) is described and figured by Grote and Robinson 
(1. c. p. 336, pi. 6. fig. 41). 
Migoplastis, g. n., R. Felder, Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. in Wien, xviii. p. 285. 
Allied to Leptosoma ; antennae ( $ ) rather more broadly pectinated, head 
larger, palpi longer, abdomen stouter, legs longer and more slender. Sp. M. 
ceylanicaj sp. n., R. Felder, Z. c. p. 285. 
Diyama insulana, R. Felder, Z. c. p. 285, Kandy. 
Arctia achaia^ sp. n., Grote and Robinson, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. i. p. 334, 
pi. 6. figs. 46, 46, California. 
Nemeophila ccespitis, sp. n., Grote and Robinson, Z. c. p. 337, pi. 6. fig. 43, 
and N. cichorii, sp. n., Grote and Rob. Z. c. p. 338, pi. 6. fig. 44, California. 
Halesidota angidifera^ sp. n.. Walker, Lord’s Naturalist in Vancouver’s 
Island &c. ii. p. 336, and 11. ? roseata, sp. n.. Walker, Z. c. p. 336, Vancouver’s 
Island. 
Messaga maritona^ sp. n., Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1868, p. 224, pi. 17. fig. 1, 
Sierra Leone; M. delicia, sp. n., Butler, Z. c. p. 224, pi. 17. fig. 2, Gold Coast. 
Lithosiid^. 
Setina. Zeller remarks (Stett. ent. Zeit. 1868, pp. 131, 132) upon some 
species of this genus. In the Carinthian Alps he found only S. irrorella. 
Setina alpestris does not belong to the North -German S. kuhhvcinii. 
IIellins (Ent. M. Mag. v. pp. 109-114) notices the larva) of the following 
species of this family : — Lithosia molyhdeola, griseola^ mesomelia, plumheola, 
heloeola, and aureola, and Calligenia miniata. 
