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moderately slender, eiibcylindrical, head very small, thorax short, abdomen 
not reaching beyond the wings, conical at tip ; legs slender, front legs simple, 
tibios with one spur in the middle, liind legs with threo> one siibapical and 
two terminal ; wings elongated, slender, fore wings with the costa scarcely 
arched, inner margin almost entire ; discoidal cell very long, first discoidal 
nerviire bifurcated, upper discocellular nerviire oblique, with the second 
discoidal nervure nearly continuous, lower discocellular nerviire transverse ; 
hind wings subpyriform, the apical area longer ; discoidal cell very long, all 
the nervures distinctly separated, upper discocellular nervure oblique, lower 
angularly transverse; wings mostly black and white. Type Papilio char- 
mione, Fabr. 
Xanthesthesy n. g., Rambiir (^ — Argxna, HUbn.), Cat. Syst. L^p. d’Anda- 
lusie, ii. p. 228, note. Allied to Deiopeia ; type Phala?.)i<i crihraria, Cram. 
AT. guttata, llanib. 1. c. p. 229, note, Madagascar ; X. alhocincta, Ilamb. . 
1. c., Madagascar. 
Phcegoptera (n. g. ?, imcharacterized, but near Hypso). Boisduval (Ann. 
Soc. Entom. Beige, xii.) describes the following Californian species as new : — 
P. cinnamomcn, p. 80, P. qucrcus and P. snlicis, p. 81. 
Ctemtcha nivosa, Walker, Lepidoptera Iletcrocera, p. 0, hab. — P ; C. cor- 
vina and C. rohinsonii, Boisduval, Ann. Soc. Entom. Beige, xii. p. 71, C. 
harrisn, Boisd. 1. c. p. 72, all from California. 
Josia lativitta, Walker, Lepidoptera Ileterocora, p. G, hab. — ? 
Pericopis tristis, Walk. 1. c. p. 7, hab. — ? 
Lama trifera, Walk. 1. c. p. 8, Espiritu Santo. 
Buscliema auristriga, Walk. 1. c. p. 8, hab. — ? 
Vitessa triplaga, Walk. 1. c. p. 8, hab. — ? 
Cyclosia spilophila. Walk. 1. c. p. 4, hab. — ? 
Etcrxisia fasciata, Walk. 1. c. p. 6, N. India ; E, alroatra, Walk. I, c. p. 04, 
Australia. 
Lithosia rernota, Walk. 1. c. p. 9, Moreton Bay; L. uniola, Rambur, Cat. 
Syst. L^p. d’Audalusie, ii. p. 209, L. sordidula, Rambur, 1. c. p. 210, both 
from Andalusia; L. decia, Boisduval, Ann. Soc. Entom. Beige, xii. p. 72, 
L. adnata, lena, and faustimda, Boisd. 1. c. p. 73, L. nexa, Boisd. 1. c. p. 74, 
all from California; L. casta (Sanborn, MSS.), Packard, Guide to Study of 
Insects, p. 284, United States. 
Eutane partita, Walker, Lepidoptera Ileterocera, p. 04, Australia. 
B arsine puncti fascia, Walker, 1. c. p. 9, hab. — ? 
Bizone trigntta. Walk. 1. c. p. 89; B. quadrinotata, Walk. 1. c. p. 90, both 
from Benares. 
Castido hinotata. Walk. 1. c. p. 05, Australia. 
Deiopeia lepida, Rambur, Cat. Syst. Lep. d’Andalusie, ii. pp. 225, 220, 
note. Bourbon, Madagascar ? ; D. occidtans, Vollenh. Recherches sur la faune 
do Madagascar, par MM. Pollen and Van Dam, Insectes, p. 13, pi. 2. fig. 6, 
Island of Nossi-Be. 
Nola thynmla. Mill. Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xvi. p. 9, pi. 85. figs. 11-13, 
Cannes, described and figured in all its stages. (The larva is erroneously 
represented with four pairs of prolegs instead of three. Mill. I, c. xvii. p. 36.) 
ArCTIIDvE. 
FmvALDSKY (Proc. llungar. Acad. 1805) describes and figures Ncmcophila 
