m 
ZOOLOG|C4t LITEMTURE. 
specie^ ih© of 1865. None of tU© feRiales oont?tined ova. Ent. M. 
:^ag. ii, p. 165. 
Girard records the capture^ hy M. Fallon, of a fi’eshly developed specimen 
of Mag^roglossa stdlaUirum in Paris on 21st January 1865. Bull. Soc. Ent. 
Er. 1865,p. V. 
Deilephilq, nerii. Becker records the occmTence of this species in the larva-, 
state at Sarepta during the dry and hot summer of 1863, Bull. Soc. Nat, 
Mosc. xxxvii. pt. 1. p. 479. 
Syme describes the habits of the larv® of Deilephila galii. Ent. M. Mag. 
ii. pp, 6-8. , 
The Entomologist; (vol. ii.) contains Rotes on Maoroglo&sa by 
Clifford, p. 298, C. B. Leighton and E, Nexyman^j p. 328 j Acker 
by P. Andrews, p. 296, Boubleday, p. 305 (barren § ), and Gregsoi\j p. §13 j 
and Choerocampa celerio (descr. of larva) by Doubleday, p. 327. 
Acherontia atropos. The life-history of this species is described by New- 
man, Entoni. ii. pp. 280-285. — E, A. JoIirsor attributes the peculiar so\\nd 
produced by the Achevontia, atropos to the passage pf air tlu’Qugh aR npertare 
situated under the fore wings. Ibid* p. §26. 
Sphinx quinquemaculatus (Haworth). The h^hits. of this inspctji the lawa 
of which is injurious to tobacco, potatoes, aud toRiatoes in gardens in the 
Northern States, are described by Fitch, 9th Jlep.. Jns, New York, pp. 211- 
229. Tlie moth is figured p. ph 4- fig. 1, tfie caterpillar p, 219, and the pupa 
p. 220. The oaterpillar is attacked by a species of ]\A{crogasi/efy and this 
again by a FteromaluSy both of which are described by the autlior, Tlie ocr 
currence of a Dipterous parasite upon the caterpiliar h^§ also keen ob- 
served. 
"Weymer (Stett. ent, Zeit, 1865, p. Ill) states that the larva of Sphingp U- 
gustri feeds on th® holly. The same author says that the larya of S. '^ina^ri 
will feed on the larch. 
Girard describes a peculiar variety of tfie larya qf Achci^'ovi,t\(^ 
Soc. Ent, Fr. 1865, p. xlix, 
Nay) geigarct g,n4 spegies : — 
Lepisesiuy g. n., Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. vol. v, p, 38. Ahied to Mar. 
cro^lassuy head smaller; antennae shorter and more prisniatic; fore wings 
longer and narrower and with the outer margin more oblic^^ue. Sp. Z, {Ma- 
croglossayjlavQfasciata! (Y^alk.), 1. c. p. 39, frorn Canada. 
Eupyrrkoglossum, g. n., Grote, 1. c. p, 42, Allied fc M^<(^Q^l(Oss^ j eyes 
larger and more globose ; antennae slender, not prismatic, lees acutely hpeked 
than in Mchcroglossof \ fpre wings very strong and broad;, second niedian ner- 
vule equidistant from first and third at apical margin, ^p, 
saqrg, (Ppey), 
Mm^vopii<ms, Qrpte, o. p. 46, pi, 1. fig, i, from Cuha?n 
C(ilidomn)a (fi.rgch, neo pramOl 
Chcerocam2ia (sic) irroratay Grote, 1. p. p. 62, ph 1, fig, 9^ from Cwba % Q\ 
roki?i§miiy Grote, c, p, 54, ph 1. fig, 3= C, falQo (fl.-^eh.. Rec, 'Walh-i, from 
Cuba, 
Deilepkila calverkyiy^ Grote, I Q. p. 56, ph 1. fig. 4; from Cuba^ 
^phmv offl/iotay Grote, 1. o. p. 71, from Cuba. 
