196 Ins. 
LEPIDOPTERA. 
Auchmis sikkimensis^ Moore, figured by Waterhouse, Aid, i. pi. x. 
Rhodophora {Alaria) florida, Guen. Habits of larva; Smith, Bull. 
Brooklyn Soc. iv. p. 28. 
HeliothidcB. Characters and position discussed ; the family should be 
placed between the A and AnthopliilidcG \ Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, 
pp. 3G0 & 361. 
Adonisea pulchripenniSj Grote, var. languida.ivom California, described; 
H. Edwards, Papilio, i. p. 20. 
Heliothis imperspicua, Streck., = Schinia gracilenta, Hiibn. ; H. spec- 
tanda, Streck., = Aspila rhexice, Abb. & Smith ; H. rubiginosa, Streck., 
= Lygranthcecia saturata, Grote ; H. fastidiosay Streck., = L. mesJceanay 
Grote, and H. siibnuda, Streck., = Eideucypiera cumatilis, Grote : 
Grote, Papilio, i. pp. 156 & 157. H. armigeray and var. confertay Walk., 
noticed from the Hawaiian Islands ; Butler, Ann. N. H. (5) vii. p. 324. 
Annapkila arvalis, H. Edwards (nec Axemis aroalis, Grote), renamed 
salicis ; H. Edwards, 1. c. p. 23. 
Agrophila. Oberthiir (/. c. vi.) notices A. flavo-nitenSy Aust., pi. iii. fig. 4, 
deleta, Staud., pi. iii. fig. 5, p. 89, and sulphuraliSy L., var. algiray pi. ii. 
fig. 2, p. 90. 
Tarache {Acontia). List of North American species; Grote, Canad. 
Ent. xiii. pp. 15 & 16. T, binoculay Grote, var. virginalis from Arizona, 
described ; id. Papilio, i. p. 155. 
Acontia variegata jlavo-maculatay Oberthiir, redescribed and figured 
by him ; L c. pp. 81 & 82, pi. iii. figs. 7 & 8. 
AnthopMla albiday Dup, noticed and figured ; id. 1. c. vi. p. 91, pi. xi. 
fig. 15. 
Eustrotia. List of North American species ; Grote, Papilio, i. pp. 10 & 
11. 
Litoprosopus futilis, Grote & Rob., compared with conjfligensy Walk. ; 
id. Bull. U. S. Geol. Surv. vi. p. 271. 
Daceltty probably = Microphysa (= Acantholipes ) ; Butler, P. Z. S. 
1881, p. 618. 
Brephos parthenias. There is a tuft on segments 5 & 6 in $ ; Poujade, 
Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (6) i. p. Iii. 
Flusia b'rassiccBy Riley, noticed by him ; Papilio, i. pp. 106 & 107. P. 
eriosoma : transformations described; P. Buller, Tr. N. Z. Inst. xiii. 
pp. 237 & 238. P. moneta, Fabr. : larva noticed ; Brants, Ent. Tijdschr. 
xxiv. p. xxiii. Var. esmeralda from Askold, described; Qberthiir, op. cit. 
v. p. 85. P. precationiSy Gu6n.: transformations described ; Coquillett, 
Canad. Ent. xiii. pp. 21-23. P. v-aureum: larva described ; Porritt, Ent. 
xiv. pp. 66 & 67. 
OrcBsia emarginatay Fabr., redescribed ; Dewitz, Verb. L.-C. Ak. xiii. 
p. 80, pi. iii. fig. 9. 
JEnigma paradoxay ^ivQck.y = Ilyblcca puerUy Fabr.; Grote, Canad. Ent. 
xiii. p. 17. 
PhycodeSy Gudn. (= Tegnay Walk.), recharacterized ; T. hyblccellay 
Walk., = P. hirundicornisy Gu6n. : Moore, 1. c. p. 377. 
Aletia argillaceay Hiibn., appears, from the figure, scarcely to agree 
with xylina, Say, but probably represents an allied Brazilian species ; 
