LEPIDOPTERA. 
407 
larvae of the following GeometridiB : — Ennombs pAiYyrm, Harr. MSS. { — E, 
Harr. MSS., = 7naywflrea, Gu^n.), and Abraxas (?) ribearia, Fitch, p. 320 j 
Geometra catejiaria, p. 321, and PericalUa quercaria, Harr. MSS. {^Nemato- 
campajilamentariaf Gu^n.), p. 322, ph 3. f. 6. 
Snellen publishes notes on the larvae &c. of Acidalia promutata^ Cidaria 
lignota, and C, ferriigata. Tijdschr. voor Ent, 2nd ser. ii. pp. 221-226. 
Von Waldersdorff describes the various larvae which feed on Actcea 
spicata: — Eupithecia acteata, sp.n., Oorr.-Blatt zool.-min. Vereinsin Regensh. 
1869, p. 82; E. argillaceatay H.-S. {immundatay Zell,), p. 87 ; and Lobophora 
appmsatay Ev., 1. c. He also notices the larva of Eupithecia linariatay 1. c. 
p. 90. 
E. Newman (Entomologist, iv.) describes the larvae of Acidalia emutariay 
p. 190 ; Eubolia lineolatay p. 227 ; Lobophora hexapteratUy p. 310 ; and Emme- 
lesia unifasciatay p. 348. 
Tetrads loratay Grote. Minot describes the eggs and larvae of this species. 
Canad. Entom. ii. p. 28 . 
Ennomos lunaria. J. Greene publishes some observations on breeding this 
insect. Entom. M. Mag. vi. p. 166. On the variation in the position of the 
lunule on the hind wings of specimens of the summer brood of this insect 
{delunariaj Hiibn.), see Delamain, Ann. Soc. Entom. Fr. 1869, Stances, 
p. II. 
Bellier de la Chavignerie (Ann. Soc. Entom. Fr. 1869, Stances, pp. 
10, 11) states that two or more species have been confounded under the name 
of Nyssia alpinaria. The species figured as N. alpinaria by Milliere is N. 
bombtjcariay Boisd. 
R. C. R. Jordan records the fact of a very pale larva of Ainphidasis 
bettdaria producing the dark variety {carbonarid) of the perfect insect. 
Entom. M. Mag. vi. p. 40. 
Rogenhofer describes an hermaphrodite of Gnophos dilucidariay S. V. 
Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. in Wien, 1869, p. 918. 
Acidalia. P. Mabille gives a list of the species of this genus observed by 
him in Corsica in 1865-1868, with remarks, and describes two new species. 
Ann. Soc. Entom. Fr. 1869, pp. 69-63. 
On the occurrence of A. hei'bariata in London, see E. G. Meek, Entom, M. 
Mag. vi. p. 14. 
II. G. Knaggs (Entom. Ann. 1870, pp. 134, 136) states, on Zeller’s authority, 
that A. mancuniatay Knaggs { = vcteratay Gregs.) \%—pinguedinatay Zell. lie 
thinks that A. asbestaria, Zell., which Zeller considers to be a variety of the 
same insect, is distinct. 
Hmmatopis grataria, Fabr. Riley, First Rep. on Insects of Missouri, 
p. 179, pi. 2. f. 18.-21, describes and figures the transformations of this 
insect. 
Abraxas grossulariata. The larva will eat Sedum telephiuniy according to 
H. Ilarpur Crewe, Entomologist, iv. p. 260. 
Eupithecia. P. Mabille (Ann. Soc. Entom. Fr. 1869, pp. 64-77) publishes the 
second part of his monograph of the Eupithecice of Corsica, and describes the 
larvfe of E. centaureatuy E. linariatay E. merinatay Gu^n. (which he thinks is 
probably distinct from E. pei'Jidatay Mn.), E. constrictatOy E. cocciferatay and 
E. dodoneata. He gives the following synonymic notes : — E. scopariatay 
Ramb., = ^. multijloratay Mill. /3, E. guinardiniariay Boisd.; E. ericeatay Ramb., 
