NOCTUID/E. 
his, 197 
Riley, Index to Reports, p. 56, & Papilio, i. pp. 107 & 108. Range, habits, 
and parasites noticed ; id. P. Am. Ass. 1879. Best means of destroying 
the young larvae; id. 1. c. 1880, pp. 642-649. Food-plants; Hoy & 
Bethune, Rep. E. Soc. Ont. 1880, p. 19. 
Trospalta leucospila, Walk. : $ described; Moore, 1. c. p. 347. 
Amphipyra pyramidea, L., var. obscura, from Askold, noticed ; Ober- 
thiir, 1. c. V. p. 85. 
Ncenia typica : ? pairing with two ^ $ ; Meinheit & Thalenhorst, 
Verb. Ver. Hamb. iv. pp. 210 & 211. 
Mania maura^ Linn. : transformations described ; Wackerzapp, Ent. 
Nadir, vii. pp. 32-35. 
2'oxoca,mpa victoria, Grote, variation noticed by him ; Bull. Brooklyn 
Soc. hi. p. 48. 
Leucanitis. Graef regards Syneda, Guen., and Bolina, Dup., as synony- 
mous with Leucanitis, Guen., and gives a list of the North American 
species ; 1. c. i. pp. 53 & 54. 
Litocala sexsignata, Harv., var. deserta from Colorado and Arizona 
described ; H. Edwards, 1. c. p. 25. 
Syneda hastingsi, H. Edwards, var. perpallida, from California, and S. 
adumbrata, Behr., var. saxea, from Colorado, described ; id. 1. c. p. 26. 
Catocala. Dewitz notices the tuft of fan-like hairs concealed in a 
cavity of the tibiae in the male ; B. E. Z. xxv. p. 297. Controversy on 
various Catocalce between Grote & Hulst; Papilio, i. pp. 159-164, & 
215-218. G. sappho, Streck. : its specific claims, p. 57. C. lachrymosa, 
Gu^n., varr. evelina, p. 110 (c/. also H. Edwards, op. cit. p. 117), and 
zelica, and innubens, Gudn., var. liinda, p. Ill, and C. robinsoni, Grote, 
var. curvata, from Illinois, described, p. 218; French, Papilio, i. C. ilia, 
Guen., carissima, Hulst, and grynea. Cram. : larvae described ; Koebele, 
Bull. Brooklyn Soc. iv. p. 22. C. arizonoe, Grote, noticed by him ; Canad. 
Ent. xiii. p. 232. C. cara, var. carissima, from the Southern States, 
described; Hulst, Bull. Brooklyn Soc. ii. p. 97. C. communis, GvoiQ, 
noticed by him ; Papilio, i. pp. 158 & 159. C. jiebilis and amatrix : larvae 
described ; Kellicott, Papilio, i. pp. 141 & 142. C. grynea, var. from 
Philadelphia, noticed ; Grote, Canad. Ent. xiii. p. 35. C. nebraskce, 
Dodge, var. somnus, described ; Dodge, Canad. Ent. xiii. p. 40. C. nupta, 
L., var. obscurata, from Askold and North China, noticed ; Oberthiir, 1. c. 
V. p. 86 (= unicuba. Walk. ; Butler, Ann. N. H. 5, vii. p. 237). C. 
similis, W. H. Edw., noticed; Grote, Papilio, i. p. 159. C. unijuga : 
transformations described ; Kellicott, Canad. Ent. xiii. pp. 38 & 39. ' 
Sypna. List of 28 species, 9 being described as new : — S. lugens. Walk., 
= Achcea reversa. Walk. ; 5 species of Tavia described by Walker in his 
Supplement, belong to Sypna ; Butler, Tr. E. Soc. 1881, pp. 201-210. 
Cyligramma. Notes on Madagascar species ; Mabille, CR. ent. Belg. 
xxv. pp. Iviii. & lix. The following synonymy is given : — C. magus and 
goudoti, Gudn., are sexes ; C. importuna. Kef., = argillosa, Guen. ; C. 
conturbans and disturbans, Walk., are sexes, and = raboudou, Luc. 
Calliodes lanipes, Butl., figured by Waterhouse, Aid, i. pi. xlviii. 
Ophiusa guenei, Snellen {=.joviana, Guen., nec Cram.), = arcuata, 
Moore ; Snellen, Tijdschr. Ent. xxiv. p. 67. 
