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IIeteroceha. 
Wetjeneurgit publishes some observations on parthenogenesis in various 
species, more especially in Liparis dispar, which ho found could be re- 
produced by parthenogenesis for two generations ; but the third brood of 
unfertilized eggs dried up. He gives a list of the various species in which 
parthenogenesis has been observed. Arch. Neerl. v. pp. 258-264. 
A larva from Monte Video, profusely covered with hairs or bristles having 
clavate tips, was exhibited by F. Smith at one of the meetings of the 
Entomological Society. lie thought it was the caterpillar of a moth, and 
remarked that Horsfield had described the larva of Lymantria as having a 
somewhat similar covering. E. M'Lachlan added that the larva of Acronycta 
alni possessed some hairs of the same shape, though few in number. Pr. E. 
Soc. 1870, p. 14. 
Pacicari) (Amer. Nat, iv. p. 229, pl. 2) fig-ures the transformations of the 
following N. American Ileterocera, from unpublished drawings by Abbot ; — 
JEustivis pupula, Hiibn. ; Coelodasys hiyuttatus, Vack. ; Dryopteris, sp. ; Acontia 
mctallica, Grotej Ilomoptcra edusa, 'Dxw. llyperetis, Boarmia, Acidalia, 
llcrminia, Ildia, Gcometra,%Y^.\ Botys, 2 spp. 
pRiTTwiTz (S. E. Z. 1870) publishes a plate illustrative of his paper in 
1868. The species of Jleteroccra represented are : — f. 1, Notodonta velitaris, $ 
abciT. ; f. 2, Lcuamia pallens, larva ; f. 3, Bomh.'hicolora, Cram., body ; f. 4, 
B. aidica, J aberr. ; f. 5, B. melaxantha, Hiibn., body; f. 6, 7, B, villica^ 
2 aberr, ; f. 8, B. aidica, S aberr. 
Descriptions of the new species of Lepidoptera described by Mabille, from 
Corsica (Ann. Soc, Ent. Fr, 1869, pp. 63-80) ore extracted, Dull. Ent.Ital. 
1870, pp. 60-63. 
A list of the new Microlepidoptcra described by Nowicki in 1864 is 
published in S. E. Z. pp. 427, 428. 
On the American moth-trap, see Ent. v. pp. 61, 62, 82, 83, 116, 116. 
Sphingidae. 
Stefanelli has published another instalment of his catalogue of the 
Lepidoptera of Tuscany, containing the Sphinges. Bull. Ent. Ital. ii. pp. 
339-367. 
Maassen questions the possibility of the large Sphir\pid(Bkda\% able to cross 
the Atlantic ocean by flight, as supposed by Koch. S. E. Z. 1870, p. 66. 
8csia diffinis, Boisd. Larva described by Mead, Canad. Ent. ii. pp. 167, 
168. 
Thyreus alhotii, Sw.' Transformations described and larva and imago 
figured, Amer. Ent. ii, p. 123. 
Boisduval describes (L6p. Guat.) Beriyonia lusca, Fabr. (p. 67), and 
Cheerocampa crotonis, Walk. (p. 70) ; the latter as new. 
Cheerocampa clpcnor. A variety is described by E. F. Bishopp, Ent. v. 
p. 146. 
Cheer ocampa nessus, Or. Schaufuss describes var. ruUcundus from Java. 
Nunq. Ot. i. p. 18. 
Deilephila hippophaes. Birchall remarks on the possible occurrence of this 
species in Ireland. Ent. v. p. 123. 
Deilephila livornica. Larva described by G. 0. Bignell, A. B. Earn, and 
