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LEPIDOPTERA. 
New species : — 
Melittia cedipus^ 0. Oberthur, Etudes d’Ent. iii. p. 30, pi. iii. fig. 1, 
Zanzibar. 
Sphecia contaminata, A. G. Butler, 111. Lep. Het. ii. p. 59, pi. xl. fig. 2, 
Japan. 
Sciapteron regale^ id. 1. c. p. 60, pi. xl. fig. 3, Japan. 
uiEgeria hector and tenuis^ id. 1. c. figs. 4 & 8, Japan. 
Tinthia editha and constricta^ id. 1. c. p. 61, pi. xl. figs. 9 & 10, Japan. 
Sesia laticincta, Rio Janeiro, and alhicalcarata, Buenos Aires, H. Bur- 
meister, Desc. Rep. Arg. v. p. 361 ; S. haherhaueri^ 0. Staudinger, Hor. 
Ent. Ross. xiv. p. 308, Taurus. 
Agaristidj:, 
Vithora ag^rionides^ Butl., figured with wrong antennae, is the same 
as Phalmna etratonice^ Oram. It belongs to the Zerenidce^ and may be 
placed in the genus Cistidia, Hiibn., to which V. indrasana^ Moore, also 
belongs. • P. 0. T. Snellen, Tijdschr. Ent. xxi. pp. 115-118. 
Butler replies to Snellen’s remarks on his Vithora agrionides^ which he 
considers undoubtedly to belong to the Agaristidce^ and to be perfectly 
distinct from Cystidia stratonice^ Cram. ; Ent. M. M. xv. pp. 36 & 37. 
Mimeusemia persimilis and Vithora agrionides of A. G. Butler are re- 
described and figured by him ; 111. Lep. Het. ii. p. 3, pi. xxii. figs. 2 & 3. 
Agarista eriopis, Herr. -Schaff. (P), redescribed ; M. Saalmiiller, Ber. 
Senck. Ges. 1877-78, p. 88. 
Seudyra noctuina, sp. n., A. G. Butler, Ent. M. M. xiv. p. 206, & 111. 
Lep. Het. ii. p. 3, pi. xxii. fig. 1, Japan. 
Eusemia hypopyrrha, id. Cist. Ent. ii. p. 297, Madagascar; E. incon- 
gruens, id. P. Z. S. 1878, p. 381, Abyssinia; E. metallica^ Congo, and 
ohryzoSy Madagascar, P. Mabille, Bull. Soc. Z. Fr. iii. pp. 88 & 89 ; spp. nn. 
Chalcosiidje. 
A. G. Butler redescribes and figures Pidorus atratus, Butl., and Laurion 
remota, Walk. ; 111. Lep. Het. ii. p. 9, pi. xxiii. figs. 9 & 10. 
Himantopterus. A species from Zanzibar noticed ; A. Rogenhofer, 
Verh. z.-b. Wien (SB.) xxviii. p. 42. 
Pompelon ampliatum, sp. n., A. G. Butler, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 387, 
Macassar. 
Chalcosia nympha, sp. n., F. Moore, tom. cit. p. 704, Hainan. 
Zyg^nidj]. 
F. Buchanan White describes and figures the genital armature of 
various Zygcenidce; Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) viii. pp. 467-476, pis. xi. & xii. 
Northia tenuis^ Procris esmeralda, and Zygcena niphona of A. G. Butler 
are redescribed and figured by him ; 111. Lep. Het. ii. p. 4, pi. xxi. 
figs. 7-9. 
Zygcena hrizce^ Esp., var. corycia^ from Asia Minor, described by O. 
