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Scott describes the occurrence of parasitic fungi upon the larvre of his 
Pidiis stvainsoni, and other caterpillars in New South Wales, in AustralXepid. 
p. 13. 
Scott states that Charagia virescens (Doubl.) and C, viridans (Steph.) are 
and $ of the same species. Austral. Lepid. p. |.4. 
Grote states, on Walker’s authority, that Hepialm Q,rgmteo-maculatmj var., 
of Brit. Mus. Cat. Lep., is Gorgopis A-giittatus (Grote). Proc. Eut. Soc. Phil, 
vol. iii. p. 635. 
The larva of Zeuzera tesculi is described by Newman, Entomologist, vol. ii. 
p. 92 ; and a variety of it by Hoarder, Ent. M. Mag. vol. i. p. 96. 
Sthen(ypis, g. n., Packard, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. vol. iii. p. 390. Allied to 
Hepialus ] head smaller and more prominent ; fore wings falcate, inner 
margin convex ; hind wings produced at apex ; abdomen elongated, with a 
slight anal tuft; hinder tibiae in cf with a large oblong tuft. Known 
species : Sth^nopis argenteo-maculata (Harris) ; S. ptirpurascem (Pack.) ; and 
S. quadriguttata (Grote). 
New species : — 
Sthenopis (g.n.) argmtatay Packard, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. vol. iii. p. 392, from 
Massachusetts. 
Hepialus mustelinus, Packard, 1. c. p. 393, from Maine ; H. lahradoriensisy 
Pack. I, c. p. 394, from Labrador ; H. ptjdcher, Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil, 
vol. iii. p. 622, pi. 6. fig. 3, from the Colorado Territory. 
Gorgopis quadriguttatus, Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. vol. iii. p. 73, pi. 1. 
fig. 3, from the Great Slave Lake. 
Charagia splendenSy Scott, Austral. Lepid. p.6, pi. 2 {Phloiopsyche splendens'), 
Cryptophasa immaculata, Scott, Austral. Lepid. p. 9, pi. 3 ; C. hijmnctatay 
Scott, ibid., and C. spihmtay Scott, 1. c. p. 10, pi. 3. 
Pielus swainsoni, Scott, Austral. Lepid. p. 11, pi. 4 {Rhizopsyche sicainsoni). 
Bombycim. 
Bar mentions the occurrence in Cayenne of an aquatic caterpillar, which 
- produces a moth resembling Bomhyx pTuedima of Cramer. This larva lives 
at the bottom of the water, and feeds on the roots of an abundant weed. 
Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1864, p. xxiv. 
Couper records the discovery of larvae of Attacm polyphemus near Quebec, 
feeding on the sweet briar, and describes its transformations. Canad. Nat. & 
Geol. new ser. vol. i. p. 376. 
Kretzschmar describes an hermaphrodite Saturnia pavonia. Berl. ent. Zeits. 
1864, p. 397. 
Perris records the destruction of great numbers of the torpid larvae of 
Bomhyx pityocampa in the Landes by the intense cold of the winter of 1863- 
64. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 4'“ ser. tom. iv. p. 308. 
Breyer publishes a figure of a variety of Bomhyx quercus. Ann. Soc. Ent. 
Beige, tom. vii. pi. 7. fig 2. 
A variety of Bomhyx nmstria is figured by Fologne. Ann. Soc. Ent. Beige, 
tom. vii. pi. 3. fig. 3. 
Grote regards Walsh’s Sphingicampa distigma (see «;i<c,p.332) as specifically 
