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ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
Oortyna lunata (Frey). M. Sand notices briefly the life-history of this 
pecies. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1868, p. xiii. 
Agrotis suffiisa. Hellins discusses the question of the double-broodedness 
of this species, which he is not inclined to admit. Ent. M. Mag. iv. p. 255. 
Agrotis spmi (Guen.). Letters from G. Bennett, W. B. Clarke, and A. 
W. Scott have been communicated to the Entomological Society (Proc. Ent. 
Soc. Lond. 1808, pp. i-vii) describing immense flights of moths of this 
species observed in New South Wales. Scott notices the habits of the 
insects, and describes the mode in which the natives prepare them for food. 
Pie states that they are called “ Boogong ” and Gnarliong.” 
Bidie notices a larva, supposed to be that of an Agrotis, which attacks 
the bark of young coffee-trees in Southern India, and destroys the trees by 
ringing them. It is hence called the Binger,” and is considered by the 
author to be identical with the Black Grub ” of the Ceylon plantations 
(Proc. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1868, p. xxviii). 
On the natural history of the Cutworms,” larvee of species of Agrotis and 
Hadena, see Walsh, Pract. Entom. i. pp, 85, 86 ; see also vol. ii. pp. 64-66. 
Army- worms.” This name has been applied in different places in the 
United States to the larvae of Anomis xylina, Heliothis armigera, and Leu- 
eania unipuncta, of which Walsh gives an account (Pract. Entom. ii. pp. Ill, 
112). He also states that the same name has been given to the larva of 
Clisiommpa sylvatica. 
Oortyna zece. Habits noticed by Walsli, Pract. Entom. ii. pp. 115, 116. 
Agrotis c-nigrurn. Larvae of this species found on the snow in winter 
proved to be infested by larvae of Microgaster. Bogenhofer suggests (Sitz- 
ungsber. zool.-bot. Ges. in Wien, 1868, p. 7) that the presence of the para- 
sites may have driven the Agrotis larvae to wander on the snow. 
New genera and species : — 
Alysia, g. n., Guen<§e, Ent. M. Mag. v. p. 3. Allied to Luperina ? ; an- 
tennae S long, crenulated, each crenulation with a tuft of hairs at tip and a 
longer one in middle} palpi stout, ascending, joint 3 very distinct, scaly} 
thorax broad, quadrate, hairy } abdomen not crested } tarsi with spines. Sp. 
A. specijica, sp. n., Guen<5e, 1. c. p. 3, New Zealand. 
Nitocris, g. n., Guenee, 1. c. p. 4. Allied to Noctna-, antennae slender, 
pointed} palpi robust, slightly ascending, joint 2 broad, scaly, glossy, joint 
3 short, but very distinct} thorax quadrate, scaly, glossy} patagia very 
short, distant, spotted with black at extremity } abdomen not crested } legs 
with spiny tarsi, spurs long and slender } orbicular stigma very small, reni- 
form, eroded inferiorly. Sp. N. hicomma (Guen.) = Mamestra comma (Walk.) } 
N. limhosa, Guen. 1. c. p. 5, Australia } N. cximdans, Guen. ibid., Australia • 
N. nuna, Guen. /. c. p. 6, Australia} and N. epiplecta, Guen. ibid. (=Ockro- 
pleura raristigma, Walk. ?). 
Choephora, g. n., Grote and Bobinson, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. ii. p. 199. 
Allied to Orihosia. Sp. C. fungorum, sp. n., Grote and Bob. I, c. p. 200, 
pi. 3. fig. 74, Atlantic States. 
Acrmycta morula, Grote and Bobinson, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. ii. p. 196, 
pi. 3. fig. 75, New Yorlc. 
Arzama ohliquata, Grote and Bobinson, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. i. p. 339, 
pi. 6. fig. 47, Eastern States. 
