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ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
New Guinea ; Clina (g. n.) lapidaria (p. 257), from India ; Themiscyra (g. n.) 
Icetifera (p. 258), from Moreton Bay j Dotha (g. n.) ctenuchoidea (p. 259), 
from Sumatra. 
Mirobnga (g. n.) pulchripicta, Walk. Proc. Linn. Soc. vol. vii. p. 198, 
from Sarawak. 
(Nudariidce, Walk.) 
Walker has described Nudaria ohliterata (List Lep. xxxi. p. 273), from 
Sierra Leone j N. albida (ibid.), from Moreton Bayj and N. marginata,Jloc~ 
cosa, subcervina (p. 27 ‘i) ,margaritacea, and margaritaria (p. 275), from India j 
and Comacla (g. n.) murina (p. 276), from East Florida. 
Noctuid^. 
Grote proposes the name Pseudothyatira for his genus Lacinia, the latter 
Rame being preoccupied in Mollusca. Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. vol. iii. p. 539. 
According to Grote (Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. vol. iii. p. 540), Achatodes sandix 
(Guen.) is identical with Gortyna zece (Harris). 
Grote has notes, chiefly relating to geographical range, upon several other 
North American species of this family : namely, Leucania unipimcta (Haworth) j 
Catocala clintonii (Grote); C. pakeogama (Guen.); Anomis xylina (Say) = 
‘bipunctina (Guen.) ; Philomma henrietta (Grote) ; Pliisia a-reoides (Grote) ; 
JExiotus moneti era (Grote) ; Baptria alhovittata (Guen.) ; B. infidata (Grote) 
and B. elahorata (Grote). The last two are referred to Doubleday’s genus 
JSrateina. Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. vol. iii. pp. 640-542. 
The same author has some remarks on the American species of the genus 
Gortyna^ Proc. Ent. Soc, Phil. vol. ii. p. 432. He records six species, exclusive 
of G. zece (Harris), which belongs to Achatodes (Guen.). 
Grote states that he believes his Philochrysa regnatrix to be identical with 
Euthysanotia titnais (Cram.), a South American and West-Indian species. 
Kretzschmar describes the larvm of Nonagria sparganii, N. nexa^ Tapinostola 
Jliixa, T. elymi^ CucuUia pustulata, and Hydrcecia lucens, and remarks on the 
specific distinctne««» of the latter. Berl. ent. Zeits. 1864, pp. 398-401. 
Grote (Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. vol. iii.) has figured and described the follow- 
ing known species of this group : Microcielia diphtheroides (Guen.), 1. c. p. 78, 
pi. 2. fig. 2 ; M. fragilis (Guen.), 1. c. p. 80 ; and Catocala palceoyama (Guen.), 
1. 0. p. 87, pi. 3. fig. 2. 
The ‘Zoologist’ contains a discussion as to the specific distinctness of 
Dianthoecia capsophila^ pp. 8913-8915. 
Bellier de la Chavignerie describes a peculiar variety of Agrotis exclama- 
tionis ( $ ). Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1863, p. Iii. 
Dietrich states (Mittheil. Schw. ent. Ges. 1834, p. 258) that Ileliothis 
armigera has been reared from larvce feeding on maize. Its ordinary food- 
plant, according to Freier, is Beseda lutea. 
Toxocampa craccce. The habits of this species are described by Horton. 
Ent. M. Mag. vol. i. p. 96. 
J. Greene describes the larva of Tethea subtusa. Ent. M. Mag. vol. i. p. 70. 
W. Buckler describes the larvae of Xylophasia scolopacma (Ent. iNf. Mag. 
vol. i. p. 60) and Leucania comma (/. c. p. 140). 
