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ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
Bond records the occurrence of an andromorphous female and a gynaeco- 
morphous male of Fidonia atomaria. Prbc. Ent. Soc. 1865, p. 111. 
Eupithecia nanata (Hiihn,). A remarkable variety of this species is 
figured by Lodeesen, Tijdschr. voor Entom. 1866, pi. 2. fig. 2. 
Ypsipetes elutata. Eallou describes a peculiar variety of this species. 
Bull Soc. Ent. Fr. 1865, p. li. 
Girard (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 4® s^r. tome v. pp. 105-108) and Fauvel (Bull. 
Ent. Fr. 1865, pp. lii-liii.) have made observations upon the occurrence of 
females of Hihernia hrumata and other species of the genus upon the gas-* 
lamps in the Bois de Boulogne. 
Hopley records the occurrence near Epping of immense multitudes of larvae 
said to be those of Cheimatohia hrumata. Ent. M. Mag. i. p. 243. 
On the hybernation of Cidaria miata, Edmunds, Ent. M. Mag. ii. p, 19. 
Eupithecia. Breyer (Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. tome viii. pi. 5) figures the 
larvae of the following species of this genus : — E. isogratnmata (§g. 1), te- 
nuiata (fig. 2), rectangulata (fig. 3), coronata (fig. 4), linariata (fig. 6), cam- 
panulata (fig. 6), pulchellata (fig. 7), and venosata (fig. 8). E. pulchellata 
feeds on Digitalis amhigua. 
Hofmann describes the habits and transformations of Lohophora viretata 
and Eupithecia argillacearia. Wien. ent. Mon. Bd. viii. pp. 26-27. 
Bossier describes a pure-green variety of the larva of Eupithecia innotata 
(Knoch). Wien. ent. Mon. Band viii. p. 131. 
Guen^e describes the transformations and discusses the characters of Da- 
sydia spurcaria (Laharpe). Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 4® s^r. tome v. pp. 96-96. 
Fologne records the occurrence of Eupithecia innotata at Osteud (Ann. Soc. 
Ent. Belg. viii. p. 273). 
Boarmia leucostigmaria^ B. ceylanicariuj and Eupithecia coffearia are in^ 
jurious to the coffee-plantations in Ceylon, according to Nietner. See Guerin, 
Bev. et Mag. de Zool. 1864, p. 60. 
New species : — 
Hipparchiscus, g. n., Walsh, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. vol. ix. p. 300. 
Palpi long, basal joints hairy, curved upwards, terminal joint not hairy, short 
and porrect j antennae long, three-fourths bipectinated in ; tibial spurs minute 
on fore legs, hind tibiae in cf with a large fan-like brush of hairs j fore wings 
subtrigonate, angles slightly rounded. Sp. IL venustusj sp. n., Walsh, 1. c. 
p. 301 j larva feeds on oak. 
Cleta reaumuraria, Milliere, Icon. L6pid. tome ii. pp. 2-4, pi. 61. figs. 1 & 2, 
from the south of France, Spain, and Algeria. 
Eupithecia cocciferata, Milliere, 1. c. p. 45, pi. 66. figs. 1-4 (with transf.), 
from Bie south of France. 
Ne7)ioria aureliaria, Milliere, 1. c. p. 37, pi. 66. figs. 1 & 2, from the south 
of Italy. 
Baptria haho'hauerif Lederer, Wien. ent. Mon. Bd. viii. p. 170, taf. 3. 
figs. 9 & 10,. from Abbastuman. 
Tephronia oppositaria, Mann, Wien. ent. Mon. Bd. viii. p. 178, taf. 4, 
fig. 4, from Brussa. 
• Acidalia mancuniataj ICnaggs, Ent, M. Mag. ii. p. 130, from Manchester. 
