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ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
Ega; Blanana selenisoides (p. 1106), from Ega, and B.? dives (p. 1106), 
from Para j Zazanisa specidaris (p. 1107), from Bogota; Mareura aurilinea 
(p. 1108), from Ega ; Daxata hijimgens (p. 1109), from Ceylon ; Massava 
scissa (p. 1110), from 'Venezuela ; Omhrea cenochromoides (eic) (p. 1111), 
from Sumatra ; Betoma dilecta (p. 1112), from Morty ; Orsa erythrospila 
(p. 1112), from Ega; Singara diversalis (p. 1113), from SilLet; Chahora 
iindidifera (p. 1114), from St. Domingo; Manhuta devia (p. 1115), from 
Ega ; Bithiasa dctcrminata (p. 1116), from Ce3don ; Nazuda digestalis 
(p. 1118), from St. Domingo ; Scamhina idiena (p. 1119), from Sierra Leone; 
and S.? larvata (ibid.), from Natal. 
GEOMETRIDiE. 
Speyer has examined the originals of several species of Geo- 
metridae descrilied by Freyer, and published the results of his 
investigations in Stett. ent. Zeit. 1865, pp. 253-260 — 
Geometra falconaria (Er.) is a colour variety of Gnophos glaucinaria 
(Hiibn.), 1. c. p. 253 ; Geom. rmmaria (Fr.) is a species of Scodiona nearly 
allied to compersaria, and is described in detail by Speyer, 1. c. 
pp. 254-256 ; Geom. nausemaria (Fr.) belongs to Larentia and to the sub- 
genus Lygris (Lederer) and is most nearly allied to L. popidata ; it is fully 
described by Speyer, 1. c. pp. 256-259; Geom. plucidaria (Pic. Larentia 
scripturaria (W. V.), 1. c. p. 259; G. p)otentillai'ia (Fr.)= (^Larentia tvpha- 
ceata (W. V.), ibid.; G. tamarisciata (Fr.)=var. Eupithecia innotata (Iliibn.), 
ibid. ; G. proluaria (Fr.)— Eupithecia impurata (Hiibn.), ibid. 
Speyer describes in detail the distinctive characters of Gnojdios mucidaria 
(Hiibn.) and variegata (Dup.), 1. c. pp. 260-265 ; and also gives a full 
description of Acidalia tessellana (Bdv.), which is quite distinct from immo- 
rata, 1. c. pp. 265-268. 
j Larentia unangidata (Haw.) and rivata (Hiibn.). Nowicki regards these 
as distinct species and indicates their distinctive characters. Verb, zool.- 
bot. Ges. Wien, xv. p. 182. The same author describes a variety, rimata, of 
L.Jluctuata, ibid. 
The following known species are described and figured by Milliere, Iconogr. 
et Descr. de Chen, et L^pid. : — Gnophos gruneraria (Stand.), 1. c. i. p. 387, 
pi. 47. figs. 1-3 ; Angerona prunaria (Linn.), 2 vars. pp. 391-392, pi. 48. 
figs. 1 & 2 ; Acidalia rohiginata (Stand.), 1. c. ii. p. 62, pi. 50. figs. 3-7 ; A. 
pecharia (Stand.), p. 63, pi. 51. figs. 3 & 4; A. folognearia (Stand.), p. 54, 
pi. 67. figs. 10-12 ; and Nychiodes lividaria (Hiibn.), vars. A. and andalu- 
siaria, pp. 77-79, pi. 60. figs. 1 & 2. Also with transformations : — Heme- 
rophila abruptaria (Thimb.), 1. c. ii. pp. 4-8, pi. 51. figs. 3-5 ; H. nyctemeraria 
(Hiibn.), pp. 8-11, pi. 51. figs. 6-8; Acidalia (Hiibn.), pp. 56-58, 
pi. 67. figs. 6-9 ; and Dasydia operaria (Hiibn.), var. ? scalettaria (Mill.), i. 
pp. 404-408, pi. 50. figs. 3-7. 
The following known species of this family are described and figured by 
Milliere, Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, tome x : — Sparta paradoxaria (Staud.), 1. c. 
pp. 187-189, pi. 37. figs. 1-3; Larentia zumsteinaria (Lah.), 1. c. p. 227, 
pi. 42. figs. 10 & 11 ; and with their transformations : — Ileliothea discoidaria 
(Boisd.), 1. c. pp. 189-192, pi. 37. figs. 4-7 ; Eubolia pci'iholaria (Hiibn.), 1. c. 
pp. 195-198, pi. 38. figs. 3-7 ; and Tephrina peltaria (Dup.), 1. c. pp. 201-203, 
pi. 39. figs, 4 & 5. 
