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LEPIDOPTERA. 
Notes on Sphingidce in Massachusetts, the habits of Dilephila lineata , 
and the eggs of Smerinthus exccecatus are specially noticed ; Goodell, 
Psyche, iii. pp. 3G7 & 3G8. 
Elongate concavity on the anterior border of abdominal joints five to 
seven of pupa) of certain Sp Jung idea, noticed as possibly a sound-pro- 
ducing organ : Riley, Nature, xxvi. p. 366, Am. Nat. xviii. pp. 745 & 746. 
Thirty- two Sphingidce inhabiting Ontario are described, and several 
figured in different stages ; Baynes-Reed, Rep. E. Soc. Ont. 1881, pp. 48-70, 
figs. 22-40. 
Dilephila euphorbiarum , Boisd. (= spinifascia , Butl., = celeno , Boisd.), 
D. anneiy Guer., and Protoparce eurylochus, Phil. (= Sphinx cestri , 
Blanch.), larvae described and figured ; Edmonds & Butler, Tr. E. Soc. 
1882, pp. 2 & 3, pi. i. figs. 1-3. 
Larva) of Thyreus abbotti , Amphion nessns , Philampelus cichemon and 
pandorus noticed ; Saunders, Papilio, ii. p. 147. 
Dilophonota cercyon , Burm. ( = lassauxi, Boisd.), D. picta, Sepp. 
(synonyms, p Sphinx pencuus, Fabr., Anceryx piperis , Boisd., A. picta, 
Moschl., and D. hippothoon , Burm.), D. obscurus, Fabr. (= A. rheebus, 
Boisd., and Mrinnyis stheno , Geyer), noticed; Berg, An. Soc. Arg. xiii. 
pp. 170 & 171. 
Acherontia atropos and Dilephila elpenor : variation in larva); Hofner, 
JB. Mus. Kfirnton, xv. p. 200. 
Acherontia atropos and Sphinx ligustri entering beehives ; Katter, Ent. 
Nachr. viii. pp. 319 & 320. 
Indian hawk-moth larva simulating a snake ; Johnson, Nature, xxvii. 
pp. 126 & 127, woodcut. 
Chcerocampa aspersata , Kirby, and Philampelus ornatus , Butl., figured 
by Waterhouse, Aid, i. pis. xcvii. & cxvi. 
Macroglossa mimicking humming-birds and bees ; Krause, Kosmos, 
xii. pp. 140-143, woodcut. M. bombyliformis , var. robusta from Tian 
Shan, described ; Alpheraky, Hor. Ent. Ross. xvii. p. 17. M. hylas , 
Linn., var. : larva and pupa described and figured ; Dewitz, Yerh. L.-C. 
Ak. xliv. pp. 266 & 267, pi. ix. figs. 9, 9 a & b. 
Ehamphoschisma, Wallengr. : on the use of this generic name ; Butler, 
Ann. N. H. (5) x. pp. 157 & 158. 
Darapsa versicolor , Harr. : larva noticed ; Fischer, Bull. Buff. Soc. iv. 
p. 62. 
Pergesa crcesus , Dalrn : larva described and figured ; Dewitz, l. c. 
pp. 249 & 250, pi. viii. fig. 9. 
Chcerocampa elpenor feeding on Circcea lutetiana ; Kane, Ent. xv. p. 234. 
Fight between two full-grown larva), resulting in the death of both ; 
Schrebank, Ent. Nachr. viii. pp. 193 & 194. C. elpenor and porcellus : 
supposed hybrid ; Lampa, Ent. Tidskr. iii. pp. 2 & 95. 
Dilephila lineata , Fabr. : unusual abundance in 1880, the moths being 
on the wing at all hours of the day ; Parker, Psyche, iii. p. 342. 
Philampelus satellitia, Linn., aud larva popularly described and figured ; 
Saunders, Rep. E. Soc. Ont. 1881, pp. 18 & 19, figs. 1 & 2. 
Smerinthus populi: double-brooded ; Mathew, Ent. xviii. p. 211. S. 
tilice : varieties noticed; Frohawk & Adamson, Ent. xv. pp. 130 & 161. 
