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fasciata, Swains.), are varieties of S. scyron^ Crain. ; H. Burmoistor, 1. c. 
p. 328. 
Acherontia atropos. On its occurrence in Northern Europe as a summer 
visitor or otherwise ; W. M. Sch</>yen, N. Mag. Naturv. xxiv. pp. 150-152- 
Breeding ; J. Anderson, Ent. xi. pp. 188 & 189. A decapitated head 
uttering its cry several times in succession [?] ; Tuniot& Buchillot, Bull. 
Sci. D^p. Nord, (2) i. pp. 64 & 65. 
Smerinthus austanti^ Staud., noticed by Bellier de la Ohavignerie, who 
proposes to change the name to S. poupilUeri ; Pet. Nouv. ii. p. 193 {cf. 
Austant, tom. cit. pp. 1 99 & 200, and others, pp. 203 & 204) . S. meander^ 
Boisd. (?), redescribed ; M. Saalmiiller, Ber. Senck. Ges. 1877-1878, p. 90. 
S. ocellatus : a specimen bred without eyes on the wings ; Dekerman-Roy 
& Ollivry, Pet. Nouv. ii. p. 253. E. de Selys-Longchamp suggests that it 
may be a hybrid between this species and S. populi ; 1. c. pp. 257 & 258. 
New species : — 
Hemaris ruhens, Oregon and California, and cynoglossum, California 
and Vancouver’s Island ; H. Edwards, P. Cal. Ac. vi. p. 88. 
Macroglossa saga, A. G. Butler, Ent. M. M. xiv. p. 206, & 111. Lep. Het. 
ii. p. 3, pi. xxi. fig. 1, Japan; M. ulalume, H. Strecker, Lepidoptera, 
p. 135, pi. XV. fig. 3, Oregon ; M. senta, id. Rep. Chief of Engineers, 1878, 
App. SS, p. 1858, pi. ii. fig. 1, New Mexico. 
Proserpinus terlooi, H. Edwards, P. Cal. Ac vi. p. 90, Mazatlan. 
Perigonia ixion (? = neplius, Boisd.), H. Burmeister, Desc. Rep. Arg. 
V. p. 515, pi. X. fig. 6, Buenos Aires. 
Darapsa elara, H. Druce, Ent. M. M. xiv. p. 249, Paraguay. 
Chosrocampa belli, Nicaragua, p. 248, salvini, Guatemala, titana, Icelia, 
and lihya, Chiriqui, p. 249, id. 1. c. ; 0. xylohaies, H. Burmeister, 1. c. 
p. 355, Areca. 
Philampelus eos, id. 1. c. p. 350, pi. x. fig. 1, Buenos Aires. 
Dilophonota cercyon and hippothoon, pi. x. fig. 5, id. 1. c. pp. 332 & 333, 
Argentine Republic. 
Sphinx elsa, p. 126, pi. xiv. figs. 4 & 5, and vashti, p. 136, pi. xv. fig. 4, 
H. Strecker, Lepidoptera, both from Arizona. 
Basiana stigmatica, P. Mabille, Bull. Soc. Z. Pr. ii. p. 491, Congo. 
Smerinthus imperator, H. Strecker, 1. c. p. 125, pi. xiv. fig. 3, Arizona. 
Zonilia raffrayi, C. Oberthur, Etudes d’Ent. iii. p. 31, pi. hi. fig 2, 
Abyssinia [probably = van, Walk.]; Z. lieydeni, M. SaalmiUler, Ber. 
Senck. Ges. 1877-78, p. 89, Madagascar. 
Nephele hipartita, A. G. Butler, Ann. N. H. (5) ii. p. 455, Old Calabar. 
iEGERIIDiE. 
A. G. Butler discusses the structure of the JEgeriidm, and considers 
them to be intermediate between the Pyralidce and Gelechiidce •, Tr. E. 
Soc. 1878, pp. 121-125, pi. v. (c/. also P. E. Soc. 1878, p. xi.). 
Sesia chalcidiformis, Hiibn. : O. Staudinger describes var. expleta from 
S.E. Europe and Asia Minor; Hor. Ent. Ross. xiv. pp. 310-314. He 
also (1. c.) points out the differences between chalcidiformis, Hiibn., and 
schmidtiformis, Freyer, and redescribes S. polariformis, Led. (p. 303). 
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