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INSECTA, EEPIDOPTERA. 
Thyridopteryx ephemeriformis. Clemens’s notes on this species, Proc. 
Ent. Soc. Phil. vi. pp. 221 & 222, have escaped notice in former vols. of 
Zool. Pec. 
(Eceiicus hirhii. Zeller describes the cocoon &c. as Psyche yiyantea, S. E. Z. 
xxxii. pp. 49-52, 80 & 81, pi. 2. 
Psyche hirsutella, S. V., O., nec HUbn., from the Austrian Alps, is named 
schiffermidleri : Staudinger, Cat. Lep. Eur. p. 64. 
bochlophora, g. n., von Siebold, Beitr. z. Parthen. d. Arthropoden, p. 136. 
Type Psyche helix (to which chap. 4 is devoted, pp. 131-144) ; also, hut with 
a query, C. valvata, sp. n., Gerstacker, Arch. f. Nat. xxxvii. p. 361, Zanzibar. 
Psyche viadrina, sp. n., Staudinger, Cat. Lep. Eur. p. 62 j Wocke, S. E. Z. 
xxxii. p. 426. P. ahencerragellay Milliere, /. c. p. 11, pi. 102. figs. 4 & 6, 
Granada. 
NoTODONTIDiE. 
Asteroscoptis, Biloba, and Bemas. Judging from the shape of the eggs &c., 
these genera should be transferred to the Noctu<e : E. B. White, Ent. M. M. 
vii. pp. 230 Si 231. 
Batana. Grote & Pobinson remark on the described species, Proc. Ent. 
Soc. Phil. iv. pp. 490 & 493. 
Ptilophora plumigera. Life-history by Buckler, Ent, M. M. vii. pp. 
210-212. 
Traumatocampa^ g. n., Wallengren, Scand. Ilet. ii. 2, p. 168. Type Gastro- 
pacha {Cncthocampa') piuivora^ Tr. 
Batana perspicua^ sp. n., Grote & Pobinson, 1. c. p. 489, pi. 3. fig. 1, Chicago, 
Illinois. 
DREPANULIDiE. 
Platyptertjx. Notes by G. II. Paynor, Ent. v. pp. 456 & 456. 
Saturniidas. 
A list of the Saturniidce in ]\Ius(Se Poyal dTIist. Nat. de Belgique is given 
by I)e Bon*e, Ann. Ent. Belg. xiv. pp. 27-29. 
Saturnia cynthia. Wullschlegel regards the forms figured by D’Aubenton 
and Drury as two distinct species. lie describes the larvae of both, and 
remarks on hybrids : S. E. Z. xxxii. pp. 404-406 ; Mitth. schw. ent. Ges. iii. 
pp. 327-330. 
8. isabellce, Graells, figured and described in all stages by Milliere, Ann. 
Soc. L. Lyon, n. s., xviii. p. 1, pi. 101. 
S. rhodoessa, .,= Polythysana 7'uhescenS)P\&Xich. & Walk. : Prittwitz, 
S. E. Z. xxxii. p. 253. 
S. yamamai. On rearing at Munster, in Westphalia, see H. Landois, Verb. 
Ver. Pheinl. xxviii. SB. pp. 69 & 60. Verson (SB. Ak. Wien, Ixi. pp. 91-3- 
929, 3 pis.), discussing the anatomy of this species, principally treats of the 
digestive organs of the larva and embryo. 
Jiomhyx 2)ernii. On its cultivation in China, see Pr. E. Soc. 1871, pp. 
xxv-xxyii. 
Brahmcsa swanziiy Butler, is figured, Lep. Ex. i. pi. 30. fig. 2. 
Samia, Hiibn. Grote (Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. v. pp. 228 & 229) considers 
Iliibner’s 3 species to be the types of 3 genera : — Samia, type cynthia, Dr. j 
