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gationis of authors, alid describes a supposed now species (Trans. Amer. Ent. 
Soc. ii. pp. 313-310). 
Vanessa and Grapta. Saunders (Packard’s Guide to Study of Insects) de- 
scribes the larvae of V. milherti (p. 269) and G. interrogationis (pp. 259, 260). 
Packard (l. c. p. 260, lig. 188) figures G. c-argenteum, Kirb. ( =/>ro^Me, Harr.), 
and quotes W. II. Edwards’s description of the larva of G. comma. 
J. Sided OTH AM (Zoologist, 1869, p. 1952) records the result of some expe- 
riments made in rearing Vanessa urticcc under coloured glass. Those reared 
under blue glass were not healthy, and mostly died in their earlier stages ; 
while the few that emerged were on the average very small : the orange-brown 
was lighter in shade, and the yellow and orange ran into each other. Those 
reared under yellow glass were also small, the orange-brown was replaced by 
salmon-colour, the venation was more strongly marked, and the marginal 
blue dashes were of a dull slaty colour. 
Vanessa. T. Groves (Entomologist, iv. p. 259) describes a remarkably pale 
variety of Vanessa nrttcce. 
Milliere (Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xvi.) figures and describes V. callirhoe 
(p. 26, pi. 88. f. 1, 2), which has recently been taken on the S. coast of Por- 
tugal, and (Z. c. p. 27, pi. 88. f. 3) a variety of V. atalanta from Pennes. He 
also (J. c. xvii. pp. 10, 11, pi. 94. f. 3) describes and figures a variety of V, 
antiopa from Moravia, and describes another from Dalmatia. 
Stainton (I’roc. Ent. Soc. 1869, p. 8) remarks that Pyrameis atalanta is 
the commonest hibernating butterfiy in various parts of South Europe, while 
in England a hibernated specimen is never seen before April) and rarely 
before the hawthorn is in blossom. 
Cynthia cardui. A variety described by Ragonot, Ent. M. Mag. v. p. 229 j 
a variety of the larva described by Buclder, Ent. M. Mag. v. p. 278. 
Myscelia cyanccula, Feld. = AT. ethusa, Boisd., according to R. Felder (Verb, 
zool.-bot. Ges. 1869, p. 472). 
Timetes eleueha has been taken in Florida according to Edwards (Trans. 
Amer. Ent. Soc. ii. p. 312). 
Limenitis. Packard (Guide to Study of Insects, pp. 261, 262, fig. 189) 
notices the N. American species of this genus, and figures L. misippus., Fabr. 
W. Buckler (Ent. M. Mag. v. p. 226) publishes notes on the earlier stages of 
L. Sibylla ; and Bond has obtained two black specimens of the same insect 
(Proc. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1868, p. 42). Edwards figures L. prdseipina (Butt. 
N. Amer. Limenitis, pi. 1) and L. weidemcycrii (1. c. Lim. pi. 2). 
Diadcma. Wallace (Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1869, pp. 277-288) publishes 
a monograph of the Eastern species of this genus, describing several new 
ones, and making many interesting remarks on the variation (sexual and 
otherwise) and distribution both of the genus generally and of D. holina and 
the other known species. The female var. inaria of D. misipipus, which seems 
common in Africa, is rare in the East, whore there is no Danais it resembles. 
W allaco also remarks on the resemblance between the Africah Diadcma sal*- 
mads and the Celebesian D. diomea ‘‘ as one of the little group of facts which 
point to some unknown mode of connexion in former times between these 
remote portions of the earth.” He considers the Austro-Malayan region the 
probable birthplace of Diadema and the allied genera. 
Herrich-Schaffer describes; an aberration of Diad. auge from Ovalau. 
Stettin, entom. Zeitung, 1869,' p. 71. 
