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HETEROCERA.
WELTENBURGH publishes some observations on parthenogenesis in various
species, more especially in Liparis dispar, which he found could be reproduced
by parthenogenesis for two generations; but the third brood of
irnfertiHzed eggs dried up. He gives a list of the various species in which
parthenogenesis has been observed. Arch. Ne'er! v. pp. 258-264.
A larva from Monte Video, profusely covered with hairs or bristles having
clavate tips, was exhibited by F. Smith at one of the meetings of the
Entomological Society. He thought it was the caterpillar of a moth, and
remarked that Horsfield had described the larva of Lymantria as having a
somewhat similar covering. R. M'Lachlan added that the larva of Acronycta
alni possessed some hairs of the same shape, though few in number. Pr. E.
Soc. 1870, p. 14.
PACKARD (Amer. Nat. iv. p. 229, pi. 2) figures the transformations of the
following N. American Heterocera, from unpublished drawings by Abbot:—
Eustixispupula, Hiibn.; Ccelodasys biguttatus,Va£k.; Dryopteris, sp.; Acontia
metallica, Grote; Homoptera edusa, Dru.; Hyperetis, Boarmia, Acidalia,
Herminia, Helia, Geometra, spp.; Botys, 2 spp.
PRITTWITZ (S. E. Z. 1870) publishes a plate illustrative of his paper in
1868. The species of Heterocera represented are :—f. 1, Notodonta velitaris, $
aberr.; f. 2, Leucania pollens, larva; f. 3, Bomb'bicolora, Cram., body; f. 4,
B. aulica, cf aberr.; £ 5, B. melaxantha, Hiibn., body; f. 6, 7, B. villica,
5 aberr.; f. 8, B. aulica, $ aberr.
Descriptions of the new species of Lepidoptera described by Mabille, from
Corsica (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1869, pp. 53-80) are extracted, Bull. Ent.Ital.
1870, pp. 60-63.
A list of the new Microlepidoptera described by Nowicki in 1864 is
published in S. E. Z. pp. 427, 428.
On the American moth-trap, see Ent. v. pp. 61,62, 82, 83, 115, 116.
SPHINGIDiE.
STEPANELLI has published another instalment of his catalogue of the
Lepidoptera of Tuscany, containing the Sphinges. Bull. Ent. Ital. ii. pp.
339-357.
MAASSEN questions the possibility of the large Sphingida being able to cross
the Atlantic ocean by flight, as supposed by Koch. S. E. Z. 1870, p. 56.
Sesia diffinis, Boisd. Larva described by Mead, Canad. Ent. ii. pp. 157,
158.
Thyreus abbotii, Sw.' Transformations described and larva and imago
figured, Amer. Ent. ii. p. 123.
BOISDUVAL describes (Le"p. Guat.) Periyonia lusca, Fabr. (p. 67), and
Charocampa crotonis, Walk. (p. 70) ; the latter as new.
Charocampa elpenor. A variety is described by E. F. Bishopp, Ent. v.
p. 146.
Charocampa nessus, Cr. Schaufuss describes var. rubicundus from Java.
Nunq. Ot. i. p. 18.
Deilephila hippophaes. Birchall remarks on the possible occurrence of this
species in Ireland. Ent. v. p. 123.
Deilephila Uvornica. Larva described hy G. C. Bignell, A. B. Farn, and