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LEPIDOPTEKA. 
Pseud osmerinthus carteri and virescens, Butler, l. c. p. 435, Aburi, Gold 
Coast. 
Dilophonota festa , H. Edwards, l. c. p. 11, Texas. 
Smerinthus (P) wayi , Tepper, Tr. R. Soc. S. Austr. v. p. 29, S. Australia. 
Protopcirce schmeltzi , Butler, l. c. p. 158, Australian region; P. lanche- 
ana , Druce, l. c. p. 18, West Africa. 
Hylcecus reevii , Druce, ibid., Paraguay. 
^Egeriidad. 
Edwards, H. Notes on North American AEgeriidce, with descriptions 
of new forms. Papilio, ii. pp. 52-57 & 96-99. 
The following known species are noticed : — Bembecia marginata, Harr. 
(= Trochilium rubi, Harr., and Sesia jlavipes, Ilulst), Trochilium syringes , 
Harr. (= Grotea longipes, Mosclil.) ; T. tibiale , Ilarr., 5 noticed, AEgeria 
exitiesa, var. fitchi, from the Southern States, asiliformis, Rott., tipuli - 
forniis , Linn., var. (P) from Ohio, and quinque-caudata , Rid., $ described ; 
Sospita, H. Edw., nee Hew., renamed Pliemonoe , H. Edwards (p. 97) ; 
Trochilium gallivorum , Westw., description reprinted. 
Trochilium cipiforme , Linn. : life history ; Tomalin, J. Northampton 
Soc. ii. pp. 112-116, plate : hermaphrodite described and figured ; O. Her- 
man, Term, fiizetek, v. pp. 194-196 & 275-211, pi. v. figs. 1 & 2. T. me - 
lanocepluilum, Dalm, noticed ; Aurivillius, Ent. Tidskr. iii. pp. 121 & 122. 
AEgeria acerni, Clem.: transformations popularly described and figured ; 
Saunders, Rep. E. Soc. Ont. 1881, p. 20, fig. 4. 2E. syringes: parasites 
noticed; Osborn, Papilio, ii. pp. 71 & 72. 2E. tricincta, Harr.: larva 
noticed ; Kellicott, Bull. Buff. Soc. iv. p. 62. 
Sesia cruentata, Mann, discussed ; Ragusa, Nat. Sicil. i. pp. 223 & 224. 
Sciapterum tabaniforme, Rott., var. hungessana from Kulja described; 
Alpheraky, Hor. Ent. Ross. xvii. p. 20. 
Melittia cucurbitce hybernates in the larva state ; Coleman, Papilio, ii. 
p. 50. 
Neiu genera and species : — 
Phlogothauma, Butler, Ann. N. H. (5) x. p. 237. Allied to Paranthrene ; 
type, P. scintillans, sp. n., 1. c. p. 238, New Britain. 
Alcathoe, H. Edwards, Papilio, ii. p. 53. Caudal appendages of $ as 
long as the abdomen ; fore- wings opaque in $ , and partly transparent in 
$ ; hind tibia? tufted as in Melittia. Type, Trochilium caudatum, Harr. 
Harmonia , id. 1. c. p. 54. Allied to Sciapterum ; type, II. morrisoni, 
sp. n., 1. c. p. 55, Montana : add AEgeria pini, Kell. 
Fatua , id. 1. c. p. 97. Allied to Trochilium ; type, T. denudatum , Harr. 
( $ described, l. c. ; ? = Sesia asiliformis, Boisd.). 
Melittia snoioii and amcena , id. 1. c. p. 53, Kansas. 
Sciapterum admirandus[_-dum ], id. 1. c. p. 54, Texas. 
Albuna denotata, id. 1. c. p. 55, Montana. 
AEgeria tecta , Arizona, and henshawii, Labrador, p. 56, preestans, Wash- 
ington Territory, querci , p. 98, prosopis, p. 99, and candescens , Arizona, 
p. 123, id. 1. c. 
Pyrrhotcenia behrensi , id. 1. c. p. 123, California. 
