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INSECTA, LEPIDOPTEllA. 
V. p. 442. — J. Hellins suggests that it is occasionally double-brooded in 
England. Ent. M. M. vi. p. 264. 
Zygoma stoechadiSf Borkh. Lederer describes and figures a variety from 
Transcaucasia. Ann. E. Belg. xiii. p. 29, pi. 1. f. 7. He also remarks (/. c.) 
that Z. filipemlul(B gradually becomes changed into transalpinaj Hubn. {tiec 
Esp.), and charon, Boisd. {nec Iliibn.). 
Procris (^Acoloithus) americance. Transformations described and figured in 
Amer. Ent. ii. pp. 173, 174, from Rep. Ins. Miss. ii. 
Nadia pundata, F. N. famula and N. hyalina of Freyer, and also N. ser~ 
vuluf Berce, are forms of this species. Staudinger, Hor. Ent. Ross. vii. pp. 
106, 107. 
Diptilon, g. n. Prittwitz, S. E. Z. 1870, p. 349. Allied to H<^materion. Head 
of moderate size, round j palpi slender, tip pointed, somewhat curved out- 
wards, nearly naked, reaching to the forehead j antennas with two rows of 
pectinations not extending to the tips, longest in the middle. Thorax mode- 
rately stout. Abdomen with 6-7 segments ; seg-ment 3 strongly constricted, 
last segment with a short tuft. Legs imperfect, those present without spurs. 
Fore wings forming a half-circle. Cell la strongly rounded towards the body. 
Hind wings reduced to simple rudiments, not extending beyond segment 
8 or 4 j coarsely scaled ) sickle-shaped towards the abdomen, resting on the 
inwardly curved point ; some coarse moderately long bristles on the edges 
and on the surface. D. tdamonophormn (pi. 2. f. 2 a-d) and D. dickies, spp. 
nn., 1. c. p. 360, Rio. 
Zygcc7ia pedinicornis, sp. n., Schauf. Nunq. Ot. i. p. 11, Port Natal; Z, 
haberhaueri, Lederer, Ann. E. Belg. xiii. p. 46, Transcaucasia. 
Glaucopis tollinii, sp. n., Keferstein, Entom. Notiz. p. 13, f. 3, Madagascar. 
Mastigocera [^Euchromia sect. Iloramia'] cedippus and M, davipes, spp. nn., 
Boisd. L^p. Guat. p. 81, Guatemala, Mexico. 
Nycteolid^e. 
Halias prasinana. On a sound supposed to be produced by this insect, see 
T. H. Hedworth, Ent. v. pp. 116, 117. 
Earias insulana, Boisd. Rogenhofer (Verb. z.-b. Wien, xx. pp. 869-874) 
describes the transformations of this species, and gives siliquana, H.-S.,/?m- 
dusana, Walk., and gossypii, ? Frauenfeld, as synonyms ; chlorion, Ramb., and 
fulvidana, Wallengr., are varieties. The species occurs in Spain, Crete, 
Sicily (?), Syria, Egypt, Madagascar, Mauritius, Bourbon, South and East 
Africa, Nortli and South India, Java, Fiji. 
Earias pugeli, sp. n., Rogenhofer, Verb. z.-b. Wien, xx. p. 872 (? =fahia, 
Cram. ; ? =frondosana, var. /3, Walk.), India, New Holland. 
Lithosiidas. 
Boisduval briefly characterizes his genus Ochodes, Pet. Nouv. no. 19. 
Ctmudia -y^osa. Walk. Boisduval redescribes this species as new, Ldp. 
Guat. p. 83. 
Gnopkeda (Dioptis) cequinoctialis, W alk. Boisduval redescribes this species 
as new, 1. c. p. 87. 
Pericopis perspicua,'W2i\k.,=i Pap. nasica, Fabr. : Butler, Cat. Lep. F.abr. 
p. 291. 
