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LEPIDOPTERA. 
between the first and second thoracic ganglia to avoid interference with 
tlie duct from a gland which opens out between these ganglia, and which 
secretes a defensive fluid. A similar peculiarity exists in the common 
leech ( Hirudo medicinalis). 
Notodonta concinna : transformations described and figured ; Saunders, 
Rep. E. Soc. Ont. 1881, pp. 20 & 21, figs. 5-7. N. dictcea : elfect of heat 
on larvae and pupae; Dobson, Ent. xv. pp. 66 & G7 : double-brooded; 
Mathew, Ent. M. M. xviii. p. 211. N. stragula, Grote: larva described 
by him ; Papilio, ii. p. 99. 
Pheosia rimosa, Pack. : larva and pupa described ; Goodhue, Canad. 
Ent. xiv. pp. 73 & 74. 
Stauropus fagi : a fore-leg lost in the larva was also deficient in the 
imago ; Brabandt & Krancher, Psyche, iii. pp. 363 & 364 : larva on apple ; 
Anderson, Ent. xv. p. 89. 
Bombyx pityoco.mpa : if a column of larvae is interfered with or broken, 
it immediately stops ; Pouchet, Mem. Soc. Biol. (7) ii. pp. 131 & 132. 
/> New genera and species : — 
Pseudocerura , Butler, Tr. E. Soc. 1882, p. 105. Allied to Heteroccvmpa, 
but with the aspect of Centra ; type, P. tlioracica , sp. n., 1. c. p. 106, 
Chili. 
Edmondsia , id. 1. c. p. 106. Allied to Lopliopteryx ) but with broader 
wings ; type, E. sypnoides , sp. n., 1. c. p. 107 (larva figured), Chili. 
Zelomera, id. Cist. Ent. iii. p. 25. Allied to Notodonta ; antennae only 
pectinated to the middle ; inner margin of fore-wings with no projecting 
tooth, but angulated near the base ; discoidal cells of all the wings 
short. Type, Z. imitans , sp. n., 1. c. p. 26, Madagascar. 
Harpyia petri and przewalskii , Alpheraky, Hor. Ent. Ross. xvii. pp. 37 
& 38, pi. i. figs. 36 & 37, Kulja. 
Cnetliocampa grisea , Neumoegen, Papilio, ii. p. 134, Arizona. 
Ichthyura inornata , id. ibid., Arizona ; I. strigosa , Grote, Bull. U. S. 
Geol. Surv. vi. p. 582, Maine ; I. palla, French, Canad. Ent. xiv. p. 33, 
Illinois. 
Dry monia pica, Butler, Tr. E. Soc. 1882, p. 22, Chili. 
Phanaca (?) cossoules, id. Ann. N. H. (5) x. p. 229, Duke of York Island 
and New Britain. 
CEdemasia perangulata , Ii. Edwards, Papilio, ii. p. 125, Colorado. 
Megalopygidje. 
Megalopygulce, Herr.-Schaff., recharacterized by Berg, An. Soc. Arg. 
xiii. pp. 262-264. He regards it as intermediate between the Liparidce, 
Cossiclce, Limacodidce, Bombycidce, and Notodontidce, and refers to it the 
genera Megalopyge, Hiibn., Alpis, Podalia, Walk., Chrysopyge , Herr.- 
Schaff., Lagon, Harr., Pimela , Clem., Ochrosoma, Herr.-Schaff., and Ca- 
rama, Walk. The genera Melanopyga, Ochrosoma, and Carama are fully 
recharacterized, and a list of their species added (pp. 264-277), the fol- 
lowing being the most important synonymy indicated: M. orsilochus , 
Cram. (= Podalia vesta , Walk.), M. lanata, Cram. (= lanifera, Hiibn., 
