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Vancsm to (Lin.), and ascribes the production of these diminutive forms to 
insufficiency of nourishment. Ann. Soc. Ent. Beige, tome vii. pp. 141 & 142. 
Lintner records the times of appearance and describes the transformations 
of several species of this group occurring in New York (Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil, 
vol. iii.) : Grapta comma (Harr.), 1. c. p. 56 ; G. faunus (Edw.), 1. c. p. 67 ; 
G. progne (Fab.) and G.j-aUntm (God.), 1. c. p. 68 j Vanessa antiopa (Lin.), 1. c. 
p. 69 ; V. milberti (God.), 1. c. p. 61 j Limenitis arthemis (Drury), 1. c. p. 62 j 
L. disippus (God.), 1. c. p. 63 ; and Pyrameis huntera (Abb. & Sm.), 1. c. p. 63. 
Hewitson figures a variety of Catagramma honplandii, Exot. Butt. Jan. 
1864, Catagr. pi. 10. fig. 72. 
Hewitson figures Pomalmosoma zampa (Westw.), Exot. Butt. July 1864, 
figs. 1 & 3. 
E. Newman (Entomologist, vol. ii.) describes the larvfe of Arggnnis paphia 
(p. 77) and Vanessa C-alhum (p. 79). 
New genera and species : — 
Mid'otia, Bates, Ent. Month. Mag. vol. i. p. 83. Allied to Melitdea ; 
antennae stout, club abrupt, thick, obtuse, slightly curved ; thorax small ; 
wings elongated, margins entire and rounded ; legs strongly spined beneath. 
Sp. M. elva, sp. n., Bates, 1. c. p. 83, from Guatemala and Nicaragua. 
Procris, Herr. -Schaffer, Con*.-Blatt. Regensb. 1864, p. 111. Allied to 
Limenitis ; branch 3 in fore wings nearly as far from 4 as 2 from 3. Type 
not stated, probably Papilio procris (Cram.). The name Procris is preoccupied 
in Lepidoptera. 
Algia, Herr. -Schaffer, /. c. p. 126. Allied to Lachnoptera ; branches 3 
and 4 of fore wings distinctlj^ pedunculated ; branch 7 divided by 8 and 9, 
which are very close together. Type not stated. 
Arggnnis. Behr (Proc. Cal. Acad. 1863, p. 84) gives the following names 
to Californian species of this genus characterized by him in a former article : — 
Arggnnis montivaga^ Behr {Arggnnis, No. 4, Proc. Cal. Acad. 1862, p. 174) j 
A. rupestris, Behr (described, =No. 6, 1. c.) ; and A. monticola, Behr ( = No. 8, 
/. c.). 
Arggnnis jainadeva, Moore, Ent. M. Mag. vol. i. p. 13 1, note, from Kuna- 
war, Himalayas, at an elevation of 10000 feet. 
Arggnnis hesperis, Edwards, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. vol. ii. p. 602, from the 
Rocky Mountains ; A. epithore (Boisd. MS.), Edw. 1. c. p. 604. 
Arggnnis coronis, Behr (in Edwards’s Notes on Argynnides of California), 
Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. iii. p. 435, from California. 
Melitcea pallida, Edwards, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. vol. ii. p, 605, from Texas 
and Kansas ; M. phaon, Edw. 1. c. p. 600, from Georgia. 
3Ieliteea. Behr describes the following new Californian species of this 
genus: — Type I. {M. tharos) : M. montana, Behr. I, c. p. 85 {^M.pgrrlia, 
Dbld. ?), disc [of under side of wings] uniform fulvous, the markings of the 
upper side shining through the coloration of the disc” ; M, collina Behr, 1. c. 
p. 86, “ disc orange-colour j markings very perceptible, and towards the ex- 
terior margin bordered by a series of black spots”; 31. campestris, Behr, ibid., 
“ disc with a yellow spot between the first and second primary costa, and 
bordered towards the exterior margin by an angular row of yellow spots, 
