LEPIDOPTERA. 
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Pusiola, g. n., Wallengren, I, c. p. 44. Allied to Lithosia j antennse ( (S ) 
with minute, dense, biseriate hairs ; palpi very short ; no auxiliaiy areola in 
anterior wings. Sp. Lithosia Jlavicosta and L. cinerella (Wallengr.) ; P. zeU 
leri^ sp. n., Wallengr. 1. c. p. 45, Eastern Caffraria. 
Tumiclaj g. n., Wallengren, 1. c. p. 45. Allied to Setina ; antennae in <5* 
pectinate, in $ serrate and pilose ; palpi very short j trunk almost wanting ; 
vein 1 of posterior wings united with vein 2 almost throughout length of cell, 
only separated from it close to the angle of the cell. Sp. Setina sagenaria 
(Wallengr.). 
Lithosia. Moore (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865) describes the following new«p(?- 
cics from Bengal : — P. diytmcta, p. 707 ; X. varana, ibid. ; L. hccma, L. remc- 
lana, L. basinota, and L, reticulata^ p. 798. 
Bizone divakara^ sp. n., Moore, 1. c. p. 798, Bengal. 
JEarias fulvidafia, sp. n., Wallengren, Svensk. Akad. Ilandl. v. 4. p. 39, 
Lake N’Gami. 
Crocota heros, sp. n., Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Philad. v. p. 232, pi. 4. fig. 2, 
and C. disparilis, Grote, 1. c. p. 233, Cuba. 
Noctuida!. 
Triphcena. Bondaui gives a tabular synopsis of the species of this genus 
inhabiting Italy (Archivio Canestr. iv. pp. 193-196). Pie enumerates 8, 
namely : — T. linogrisea (Fab.), suhsequa (Iliibn.), promdya (Linn.), inmiha 
(Treits. ),j^?n6rm (Linn.), interjecta (Iliibn.), orhona (Fab.), and ianthina{¥^sh.') , 
Bogenhofer (Verb. zool. -hot. Ges. in Wien, xvi. pp. 999-1000) remarks upon 
the following species as occurring in Austria : — Agrotis hastifera (Donzel) ; 
Dasypolia templi, a variety {alpind) from Innsbruck ; Dkmthoecia sUenes 
(Ilubner) ; Luperina rubella (Bup.) j Orthosia ruticilla (Esp.) ; Cleophana oli- 
vina (H.-Sch.); Calophasia platyptera (Esp.); Cosmia (Iliibn.) ; Plusia 
deaurata (Esp.). 
. Goossens records the occurrence of Nola centonalis and Nonagria lutosa near 
Paris. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1866, p. xv. 
Knaggs (Ent. Ann. 1867, pp. 131-134) discusses the question of the identity 
or discrepancy of Nonagria extrema (Pliibn.) and Tapinostola bondii (Knaggs). 
He thinks N. extrema (Ilubn.) is probably identical with N. helrnanni (Eversm.) 
rather than with his N. bondii. 
Nonagria neurica of British authors =W. arundineti (Schmidt), according to 
Newman, Entomologist, iii. p. 27. 
Pianthcecia. Gregson records the capture of a peculiar and permanent 
variety of D. ccesia (W. V.) = X>. dichroma (Esp.) in the Isle of Man; he pro- 
poses to name it var. mananii. Entomologist, iii. pp. 103-104, and 128-130. 
See also Pariy, 1. c. p. 116. 
On the occurrence of Pianthcecia ccesia in the Isle of Man, see Bond, Proc. 
Ent. Soc. 1866, p. xvii, and Gregson on an old specimen captured in Yorkshire, 
/. c. p. xviii. 
Birchall figures Pianthcecia capsophilaj Ent. M. Mag. iii. pi. 1. fig. 9, P. 
barrettii^ 1. c. fig. 7, and P. compta., 1. c. fig. 8. 
Xylina zinckenii (Treits.) is recorded as a new British species by Knaggs, 
Ent. M. Mag. iii. p. 163 ; figured Ent. Ann. 1867, frontisp. fig. 7. 
Agrotis seyetum with fore wings nearly black. Dorville, Proc. Ent. Soc. 
1806, p. ii. 
