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CiACCio, G. V. Sul interna tessitura dell’ occhio delle Sfingi. Rend. 
Acc. Bologn. 1877-78, pp. 170-172. 
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A. G. Butler redescribes and figures Chcerocampa suffusa and palUcosta, 
Walk,, p. 1, Triptogon roseipennis, Butl., and complacens, Walk., p. 2, 
AcJierontia medusa, |Butl., and Diludia discistriga, Walk., p. 3, and D. 
increta, Butl., p. 4, 111. Lep. Het. iii. pi. xli. figs. 1-7. The transforma- 
tions of D. increta are erroneously noticed and figured as those of D. 
nates in Tr. L. S. ix. p, 616, pi. xci. figs. 18 & 19. 
Thyreus ahhoti. Green variety of larva; Hagen, P. Bost. Soc. xx. 
p. 136. 
Dilephila nerii discussed, and larva and imago figured ; J. Faivre, M4m. 
Soc. Saone-et-Loire, ii. pp. 43-47, figs. 4 & 5. 
Dilephila insidiosa, Ersch., = hienerti, Staud., ? = hippophaes, var.; 
O. Staiidinger, S. E. Z. xl. p. 316. 
Smerinthus austauti, Staud., distinguishing characters pointed out, and 
larva, and var. staudingeri described; L. Austaut, Le Nat.i. (2)p. 3, & pp. 
68, 69, & 85. S. ocellatus, dimorphism in larva; E. Boscher, P. E. S. 1879, 
p. xliv. S. tilice wilh aborted hind wings ; M. Girard, Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 
(5) ix. p. xcviii. ; ab. jjechmani from Nymphenburg, described and figured, 
A. Hartmann, MT. Miinch. ent. Ver. iii. pp. 35-37, pi. iii. figs. 1-3. 
Sp>liinx eremitus, Hiibn. Transformations noticed ; T. W. Fyles, Canad. 
Ent. xi. p. 59. 
Acherontia atropos. In the $ the skin connecting the ventral and dorsal 
plates forms an f-shaped longitudinal fold ; L. Arnhart, SB. z.-b. Wien, 
xxix. pp. 54 & 55. 
Drachyglossa (?) stigmatica, P. Mabille, redescribed and figured by 
him ; Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) ix. p. 293, note, pi. vi. fig. 1. 
Zonilia. P. Mabille [incorrectly] places together Z. densoi. Kef., maU 
gassica, Feld., and rhadama, Boisd. ; Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) ix. p. 296. 
Z. rosce, Butl., and cenopion, Hiibn., are perhaps forms of one species ; 
Dewitz, MT. Miinch. ent. Ver. iii. pp. 25 & 26. 
Hew species 
Macroglossa taxicolor, F. Moore, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 387, Ceylon ; M. 
falkensteini, Dewitz, |MT. Miinch. ent. Ver. iii. p. 23, pi. i. fig. 1, Chin- 
choxo ; M. cesalon and homhus, Mabille, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) ix. 
pp. 299 & 347, Madagascar. 
Pterogon ohscurus, id. 1. c. p. 346, Madagascar. 
Angonyx horneensis, Borneo, and vigens, Philippines; A. G. Butler, 
Tr. E. Soc. 1879, pp. 261 & 262. 
Acosmeryx metanaga, id. Ann. N. H. (5) iv. p. 350, Japan. 
Gnathostypsis laticornis, id. 1. c. p. 233, Madagascar. 
Diodosida grandidieri, id. 1. c. p. 234, Madagascar. 
Chcerocampa humilis, id. ibid.; C. argyropeza^ Mabille, Bull. Soc. 
Philom. (7) iii. p. 135 (= Ocyton tyrrhus, Boisd., sec Mabille, Ann. Soc. 
