614 ZOOLOGICAL LITBllATUilE. 
Lithosia eameola. The Entomologist (vol. ii. pp. 255-256) contains notes 
on the natural history of this species by E. Birchall. 
Neio species ; — 
Lithosia ochraceola, Bremer, Mem. Acad. St. Petersh. yiii. p. 37, pi. 5. fig. 2, 
and L. affineola, Brem. 1 . c. p. 97, pi. 8. fig. 5, from East Siberia. 
- Calligma pallida, Bremer, 1 . c. p. 97, pi. 8. fig. 7, from East Siberia. 
Crocota treutii, Groto, Ih’oc. Enfc. Soc. Phil. vol. iv. p. 322, from Massa- 
chusetts. • 
Cyrtosia oceUata, Grote, ^ c. p. 322, pi. 2. fig. 2, from New Jersey. 
. Midaria ? massiliensis, Milliere, Ann, Soc. Linn. Lyon, tom. x. p. 222, pi. 42. 
figs. 1-3, from Marseilles. 
NoCTUIDiE. 
Bullion, in his Catalogue of the Lepidoptera of Gorki (Bull. Soc. Nat. 
Mosc. xxxvii. pt. 1. pp. 372-379), enumerates 90 species of this family, and 
adds that he has 17 undetermined forms, raising the total to 107 species. 
Of the 90 species also 2 Cucidlice and 1 Plusia are specifically undetermined. 
Among the species are Plusia cheiranthi and Toxocampa lusoria. 
Leucania loreyi and L. turca, and Erastria renustida occur in the list of 
Lepidoptera new to the Dutch fauna. Tijdschr. voor Entom. 1865, pp. 34-35. 
l\j[oschler (Wien. ent. Mon. Bd. -vin. p. 196) has corrected and supple- 
mented his description of his Agrotis comparata and A. septentrionalis from 
Labrador. The same author remarks (1. c. p. 198) that Agrotis hyperhon a 
and Pachnohia carnea {vide Stand. Catal.) belong to the same genus, and 
differ from the other Pachnohice in the form of the anal valves in the (J . 
Fologne remarks (Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. tom. viii. p. 275) that tfie exam- 
ples of Agrotis cursoria taken by him at Ostend differ in colour from those 
observed at Campine. Some specimens agree precisely with A. sagitta 
Hiibn., H.~Sch.) j and as intermediate forms occur, he regards the whole as 
forming one species. Agrotis tritici and aquilina also appear to be identical. 
Specimens of Luperina testacea from Ostend are very dark or nearly black 
in colour. The occurrence of Ilydrilla xdiginosa in Belgium is noticed by 
Fologne (7 c. p, 273). 
Fallou states that his Bryophila guenei proves to be only a variety of 
Erastria fuscula. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 4® s^r. toip. iv, p. 688. 
Gortyna. Grote discusses the synonymy of the North American species 
of this genus. Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. vol. iv. pp. 324-325. 
Lederer (Wien. ent. Mon. Bd. Yiii. p. 169) describes a large variety of the 
Ileliothis purpurascens (Tauscher) fr'om Imeretia. 
Bellier de Chavignerie exhibited (April 12, 1865) living caterpillars of 
■Polia asphodeli (Bamb.) which had fed through the preceding winter, having 
been hatched in October 1864, from eggs brought from Corsica. Tie states 
that he regards this species as distinct from P.purnicosa (Hiibn.). Bull. Soc. 
Ent. Fr. 1865, p. xix. 
Grote (Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. vol. iv. p. 320) describes a variety of Catocala 
amatrix (Hiibn.) = (7. selecta (Walk.), and discusses the characters of C. despe- 
■ raki and C. vidua. 
The following known species are described and figured by Milliere, 
