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Isognathus lavra, Venezuela, and amazonicus (= Anceryx scyron, 
Walk., vec Cram.), pi. xciv. fig. 8, Villa Nova, A. G. Butler, 1. c. p. 601. 
Protojtarce fulvinotata (= Macrosila solanl, Walk., pt.), Natal and 
Ashanti, and mauritii (= M. solani, ^ var. $ and $ , Walk.), Mauritius 
and Natal, p. GOG, jamaicensis, Jamaica, p. 608, and orientalis, Indies, 
p. 609, pi. xci. figs. 16 & 17 (larva and pupa only), id. 1. c. ; P. lingens, 
id. P. Z. S. 1877, p. 169, Madagascar ; P. dalica, W. F. Kirby, 1. c. p. 243, 
Canada. 
Pseudosphinx obscura, A. G. Butler, Tr. Z. S. ix. p. 610, Honduras to 
Brazil. 
Diludia nebulosa (== Macrosila casuarince, Walk.), Cape York, and 
tranquillaris, Darjeeling, id. 1. c. pp. 615 & 641, D. chromapteris, id. 
P. Z. S. 1877, p. 168, Madagascar, D. bethia, W. F. Kirby, 1. c. p. 243, 
Queensland. 
Ilylcecus caligineus, A. G. Butler, Ann. N. H. (4) xx. p. 393, Japan. 
Nephele charoba, Madagascar, and infernaliSy Ashanti; W. F. Kirby, 
/. c. pp. 243 244. 
^GERIIDJl. 
Soronia, g. n., F. Moore, Ann. N. H. (4) xx. p. 83. Type, S. cuprealis, 
sp. n., 1. c. p. 84, Shanghai. 
yEgeria liowqua, id. 1. c. p. 83, Shanghai. 
Sesia polaris, O. Staudinger, S. E. Z. xxxviii. p. 175, Lapland ; S. 
surinamensis, II. B. Moschler, Verh. z.-b. Wien, xxvii. p. G31, pi. viii. 
fig. 1, Paramaribo. 
MelUJia sangaica and Inngipes, F. Moore, 1. c, p. 84, Shanghai. 
URANlIDiK. 
A. G. Butler (HI. Lep. Het. i. pi. i.) figures and redescribes Nyctdlemon 
excavatus, p. 58, pi. i. fig. 1, and Coronis subpicta and interlineata, Walk., 
p. 59, pi. ii. figs. 2 & 1. 
Urania rhiplieus, Drury. A. Guende repeats his former opinion that 
rhipheus of Drury and Cramer are identical. He sinks his Cydimon 
cacica as a var. of C. fulgens, and discusses the position of the Agaris- 
tidoi ; and he instances Euchelia jacoJxcoi as an exaifiple of a European 
species of the latter family. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) vii. pp. 305-308. 
Alcides aurora, sp. n., Salvin Godman, P. Z. S. 1877, p. 160, pi. xxiii. 
figs. 5 & 6, Duke of York Island. 
Nyctalemon agathyrsus, J. Kirsch, MTi Mus. Dresd. i. p. 129, pi. vii% 
figs. 8 & Sa, New Guinea; N. najabula, F. Moore, P. Z. S. 1877, p. 620, 
S. Andamans : spp. nn. 
Castniidj]. 
J. O. Westwood has published a monograph of Castnia and the allied 
groups, describing and figuring many new species, and numerous details 
of ncuration, &c. ; Tr. L. S. (2) i. pp. 155-207, pis. xxix.-xxxiii. 
He refers* the following genera to the Castniidoi : — Castnia, Orthia^ 
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