174 Ins. 
LEPIDOPTERA. 
Hepialus sequioiolus and mendocinolus, p. 174, baroni and len^ii, p. 175 ; 
J. Behrens, Oanad. Ent. viii., spp. nn. 
Noctuid^. 
On collecting Noctuce by examining thistles, &c., at night with a lan- 
tern ; J. van Leeuwen, junr., Tijdschr. Ent. xix. p. cvii. 
A. E. Grote has published Part 2 of his Check List of the Noctuidce of 
America, North of Mexico, containing the FasciatcBy Deltoides, and Noctuo- 
Phalmnidi. Buffalo : 8vo, pp. 31-50. Two new species are described ; 
and the adoption of Hiibner’s genera is defended in the preface. 
Grote’s Check List of N. American Noctuidos. is reviewed, with critical 
notes on some of the species, by A. Speyer, S. E. Z. xxxvii. pp. 198-204. 
A. R. Grote publishes remarks on various genera of N. American 
Noctuidce ; op. cit. pp. 134-137. 
Captures of N. American Noctuidce in the province of Ontario, Canada ; 
G. Norman, Ent. M. M. xii. pp. 254-256 ; Canad. Ent. viii. pp. 67-72. 
In Illinois (with directions for sugaring) ; 0. S. Westcott, Canad. Ent. 
viii. pp. 12-17. A collection from Colorado, made by A, S. Packard in 
1875 ; A. R. Grote, Bull. U. S. Geol. Surv. ii. pp. 115-120. 
On Noctuidce from the Pacific Coast ; A. R. Grote, Bull. Buff. Sec. iii. 
pp. 77-87. Many new species are described and figured, and others are 
noticed as new to this portion of America. 
Amphipyra effusa and Agrotis renigera found by E. Simon adhering to 
the walls of caves ; P. Mabille, Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) vi. p. ccix. 
Bomhycia improvisa, H. Edwards, noticed ; A. R. Grote, 1. c. p. 78. 
CymatopJiora ocularis. Natural history ; W. Buckler, Ent. M. M. xiii. 
pp. 90-92. C. ridenSj egg described ; J. Hellins, op. cit. xii. p. 232. 
Apatela lupini^ A. R. Grote, noticed and figured by him ; 1. c. p. 78, 
pi. iv. fig. 10. 
Acronycta aceris. On the damage sometimes caused by this species to 
horse-chestnut trees ; A. Gu^n^e, Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) vi. pp. cvii. & 
oviii. The same tree also suffers severely from the larvae of Chima- 
tobia brumata and Bucculatrix thoracella ; E. L. Ragonot, tom. cit. p. cviii. 
Leucania unipuncta, Haw. Oviposition; C. V. Riley, P. Ac. St. 
Louis, iii. p. ccxi. L. zece, Dup., new to Italy : on breeding ; Targioni 
Tozzetti, Bull. Ent. Ital. viii., Addunza, pp. 27 & 28. 
Nonagria lutosa. A variety, at first supposed to be a new species ; W. 
B. Gill, Ent. M. M. xii. p. 279 ; xiii. pp. 10 & 11. 
Laphygma frugiperda, Abb. & Smith (= Prodenia autumnalis^ Riley). 
C. V. Riley defines and figures varr. fulvosa and obscura ; Rep. Ins. Mo. 
viii. pp. 48 & 49, fig. 27. 
Mamestra capensis, Gu^n., noticed ; H. D. J. Wallengren, CEfv. Ak. 
Forh. xxxii. 1, p. 104. 
Miana fasciuncula. Transformations described: W. Buckler, Ent. 
M. M. xiii. pp. 62 & 63. 
Agrotis. L. F. Harvey (Bull. Buff. Soc. iii. pi. iii.) notices and 
figures A. sculptilis, Harv., murcenula, Grote & Rob., scandens, Riley, 
p. 73, feniseca, Harv., hostoniensis, Grote, A. (Ammoconia) chortalis, 
