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ZdOLOGlCAJi LITERATURE. 
General remarks on the order : — 
WocKE has published a report of the results of his collecting 
in Nor>vay, Stett. ent. Zeit. 1864^ pp. 166 & 201. The total 
number of species of Lepidoptera recorded by him is 202, of which 
166 were collected on the Dovre^eld. Of the twelve species 
of Butterflies found here, nine also occur in Finmark, including 
Syrichthus centaureaej also an inhabitant of North America. Of 
truly northern species there were only three ; t]ie rest occur in 
Germany and Switzerland. The Zygoinidce are represented on 
the Dovrefjeld by a single species [Z. eamlans)', the Sphingidce 
are entirely wanting; a single pupa-case, probably of Besia 
culiciformis, was met with ; and the Hepialid(e are represented 
by two common European species, Spilosoma fuliginosa and He- 
pialus humuli. Of Bombycida Wocke met with nine species, 
all of which are also found in Germany. Of 24 species of 
Noctuida, 19 also occui' in Germany and Switzerland ; but six of 
these are peculiar to the Alpine region. Wocke describes two 
new species of this family, and mentions the occurrence on the 
Dovrefjeld of Anarta algida (Lef.), a species hitherto known 
only from N. America. Agrotis speciosa (Hiibn.) varies greatly 
in this northern locality, so tliat two species might easily be made 
out of it, and Wocke regards A. arctica (Stand.) as founded upon 
one of these northern varieties. Hadena exulis (Lef.) occurs 
on the DovreQeld, and is identical with H. marmorata (Zett.) 
Herminia tentncularis (Lin.) occurs on the Dovrefjeld with a 
very unusual coloration, which is described by Wocke (/. c. 
p. 186) . Of the GeometridiR, of which the total number recorded 
is 36, 25 occurring on the Dovrefjeld, only one, Eupithecia hy- 
perborean is exclusively a northern form, all the others occurring 
in. Germany. Out of a total of 106 species of Microlepidopteran 
95 are found on the DovreQeld ; of these only 12 are truly nor- 
tliern specip, the rest being common to the German fauna, but 
nine of them peculiar to the Alps. The six Pterophoridce are 
all German species. Wocke describes Cunchylis vulnerata (Zett.) 
and Argyresthia decimella from good specimens, and 
refers to varieties of other known species, some of which may 
prove to be specifically distinct. The few new species described 
will be noticed below in their proper places. 
Keperstein (Stett. ent. Zeit. 1864, pp. 103-105) reports on 
the general characters of the Lepidopterous fauna of lleichen- 
hall and Gastein, in Bavaria, and gives a list of species found by 
him in the former place from 13th July to 11th August, and in 
the latter from 6th July to 4th August. He confined his atten- 
tion to the Rhopalocera and larger Heterocera. He remarks 
especially on the number of species of Lyccena (six) which he 
saw flying together in the Kaferthal near Gastein, and notices 
some variations in the marking of L. alexis and L. conydotij one 
of which represented L. alexias (Freyer) . 
