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D. elpenor. Kuwert has discovered an air-bladder in its abdomen, which 
he supposes to exist also in other Lepidoptera, and to be employed to inflate 
the nervures of the wings on the insect emerging from the pupa. S. E. Z. 
xxxii. pp. 306-308. 
Choerocampa elpenor. An extraordinary var., with hyaline centre to wings, 
is mentioned by Knaggs, Ent. Ann. 1872, pp. 110 & 111 ; Bond, Pr. E. Soc. 
1871, p. xxxiv \cf. the description of Sphinx homhylifoi'miSj L.]. 
C. erotus, Or. Koch thinks two species may be confounded under this 
name : S. E. Z. xxxii. pp. 239-241. 
Smerintlms. On hybrids between S. ocellatus S and populi see E. 
Birchall, Bep. Br. Ass. 1870, pp. Ul, 112. 
On synonymy of Sesia homhyliformis fuciformisj and of various foreign 
Sphinffidcey see W. F. Kirby, Pr. E. Soc. 1871, pp. xxi, x3cvii-xxix, xliii, & xlix. 
Macroglossa hirundo, sp. n., Gerstiicker, Arch. f. Na,t. xxxvii. p. 360, 
Zanzibar. 
Aellopus blaini, sp. n., Grote, Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. iii, p, 184, Cuba. 
Deilephila spinifascia, sp. n., Butler, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 81, Buenos Ayres. 
Sphinx diffissa, sp. n., Butler, l.c. p. 82, Buenos Ayres. 
StygiiDvE. 
Stygia ledereri, sp. n., Staudinger, 1. c. p. 61, Taurus. 
^Egeriid.®. 
Algeria polistifor'mis, Harr. Figured and transformations described by 
Riley, Rep. Ins. Miss. iii. pp. 76-77. 
AE. exitissa. Larva figured, with description of transformations, by W. 
Saunders, Oanad. Ent. iii. pp. 22, 23. 
Sesia. Milliere (Ann. Soc. L. Lyon, n. s., xviii.) figures and notices S. 
^nonsjjeliensis, p. 23, pi. 103. figs. 4 & 6; himmighoffeni and agdistiformiSf 
p. 24, pi. 104. figs. 6 & 7. 
Uranup^. 
Urania rhiphem. On this species, and its alleged occurrence in Asia, see 
Trimen, P. L. S. xi. p. 284, 
Urania leihis. On its migrations, see Nature, iv. pp. 12, 13, 494. 
Thaliura croesus, sp. n., Gerstacker, Arch. f. Nat. xxxvii. p. 361, Zanzibar. 
Castnudje. 
Alypia octomacidata. Habits and transformations described, and larva 
and imago figured, by Riley, Rep. Ins. Miss. ii. pp. 80-82; 
ZYGAJNIDiE. 
Procris statices with abnormal aptennae (Selys-Longchamps) 5 specimens 
temporarily of a coppery-bronze colour (Folpgne) ; Ann. Ent. Belg. xiv. c.-r. 
pp. 42, 47. 
P. (Acoloithus) amerioana. Described and figured \n aU stage? by Riley, 
1. c. pp. 86-87. 
Zygcena. Milliere (Ann. Soc. L. Lyon, n. s., xviii. pi. 107) figures and de- 
scribes in all stages Z. stoschadis, p. 60, figs, 1-6; erythrys^ p. 66, figs, 9-11 ; 
and the larvae oifausta, p. 63, figs. 7 & 8, and nimosy p. 66, fig. 12. 
