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ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
Packard (Guide to the Study of Insects) notices the following species of 
this family : — HypenahumuU, Harr., pp. 327, 258, fig. 250; Pyralis farinalis, 
Harr, (sic), p. 328; Asopia costaliSf F., p. 328, fig. 251 ; Aylossa cuprealis (?), 
p. 320. 
MiLLifeRE (Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xvi.) describes and figures Botys cul- 
tralis, Staud., p. 11, pi. 86. f. 14, and B. (Pyrausia) trimaculalis, St., p. 4, 
pi. 85. f. 4. He also describes and figures the transformations of Herminia 
crinalis, p. 12, pi. 86. f. 1-3, and Potys asi?ialis, p. 15, pi. 86. f. 4-6. He also 
(/. c, xvii.) figures Stenia adelalis, Gu^n., p. 14, pi. 95. f. 1, 2, and Metasia olbi- 
enalis, Gu4n., p. 15, pi. 95. f. 3, 4 ; and figures and describes Nodaria hispa- 
nalisy Gu<5n., p. 18, pi. 95. f. 8. 
ScuDDER (Harris’s Correspondence, p. 322) publishes Harris’s descriptions 
of the larvae of Ilypena humulif Botys (?) sp., pi. 4. f. 18 (=Pionea euriU’ 
sails, Walk.). 
F. B. White publishes notes on the food of the larvae of Scoparia and 
Cramhus. Entom. M. Mag. vi. pp. 143, 144. 
Herminia cribralis. Figured and described in all its stages by Vollen- 
hoven, Sepp’s Nederl. Insecten, 2nd ser. ii. pp. 152-156, pi. 35. f. 1-16. 
Pyralis ylaucinalis. Transformations described by W. Buckler, Entom. M. 
Mag. vi. pp. Ill, 112. 
Acentropus. Speyer (Stettin, entom. Zeitung, 1869, pp. 400-406) treats of 
the structure of this genus in minute detail. He considers it undoubtedly 
Lepidopterous, and proposes for it a new family (Acentridce), which he places 
between the Botydce and Chilonidce. He regards Acentropus as a surviving 
member of the original stock of the Lepidoptera, and thinks that it is more 
probable that the Lepidoptera have become developed from aquatic ancestors 
than that Acentropus has been developed from the terrestrial Lepidoptera. 
Acentropus. Von Nolcken (Stettin, entom. Zeitung, 1869, pp. 275-283) 
discusses the various species of Acentropus, and gives the following list of 
the known forms, 3 of which at least he considers to be well-established 
species at present: — 1. A. niveus, Oliv., Paris, $ unknown; 2. A. hansoni, 
Steph., $ winged ; 3. A. garnonsii, Curt., $ wingless (or with rudiments of 
wings P) ; 4. A. badensis, n. sp.. Lake of Constance, $ with short rudiments 
of wings; 6. A. germanicus, n. sp., Stralsund, $ unknown ; 6. A. newce, Kol., 
St. Petersburg, in the Neva, $ unknown ; 7. A. latipennis, Moschl., Sarepta, 
both sexes perfectly winged : a well-marked species in colour, shape *of 
wings, &c. 
JRhodaria sanguinalis. E. Newman copies Milliere’s account of the life- 
history of this species. Entomologist, iv. p. 228. 
Lemiodes pulveralis. On its occurrence in Britain see E. G. Meek, Entom. 
M. Mag. vi. p. 141 ; and H. G. Knaggs, Entom. Ann. 1870, pp. 140, 141. 
Von Nolcken (Stettin, entom. Zeitung, 1869, pp. 272-275) discusses the 
various figm'es of Botys cilialis, Iliibn., to which he refers cilialis of Treitschke 
^d Von Heinemann, venosalis, Lienig, and virgata, Beutti, as synonyms : 
cilialis, H.-S., is said to be=CAi7o (Calamochrous, Led.) acutellus, Ev. ; and 
Nascia cilialis of Wood and Curtis is suspected by Lederer to be a var. of 
Chilo phragmitellus [?]. 
Botys verticalis. C. Healy describes the pupation pf this species. Ento- 
mologist, iv. p. 296. 
