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In Mr. Kirby's catalogue of all known Rhopalocera, including appendixes up to 1877, thirty-five species are marked as from Minas Geraes; and in the Hewitson Collection seventy-one named and eight unnamed species from the same province, out of a total of four or five thousand species. In Mr. Hewitson's "Exotic Butterflies," he figures nineteen species from Minas Geraes, while the Amazons are represented by 232, Ecuador by 175, and New Granada by 80 coloured drawings, besides many others from all parts of the world.

† Tiphus,* Cram.

Div. II.-HETEROCERA.

List of Moths collected by H. C. Dent in Brazil.

All the insects were taken in the province of Minas Geraes, except those marked *, which were collected from the neighbourhood of Rio de Janeiro.

The nomenclature is from specimens in the British Museum Collection. I have also referred to Lederer's "Wiener Entomologisher Monatschrift," vol. vii.

The classification is from "List of the Lepidoptera Heterocera in the Collection of the British Museum," 1854, etc., by Francis Walker, F.L.S. I have also examined most carefully MM. Boisduval and Guénée's "Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Species général des Lépidoptères Hétérocères," Paris, 1852-1857. This book, however, is incomplete. Dr. J. A. Boisduval issued, in 1874, the volume on "Sphingidæ, Sesiidæ, and Castniidae:" but, owing to his death, the parts on "Zygænida" and "Bombycites" have never appeared.

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+ The largest known moth, twelve inches across the wings.

Phalenites, Gn.

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Also about 19 species of Noctuæ, Tortrices, etc., genera undetermined.

83 species determined.

47 species undetermined.

19 species, genera undetermined.

149 Total number of species collected.

THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION.

Mr. W. C. Hewitson § refers to a paper by Mr. Roland Trimen,|| wherein, speaking of the wonderful metamorphoses of a species of Papilio, the latter says, "Entomologists, no less than naturalists generally, appeared content with a child-like wonder at this and kindred facts, and let them pass as things inscrutable until Mr. Darwin gave us a rational explanation of these phenomena." Mr. Hewitson remarks, "I must say, and I hope that

† Represented by sketch only in Brit. Mus. Coll. (placed among Saturniida); but it is certainly a Geometer, and presents similarities to the Ennomida and Boarmida. Is allied to genus Chorodna from Hindostan ; resembles Semiothisa, Feld.

Very closely approaches the English M. notata. § "Exotic Butterflies," vol. iv. "Trans. Linn. Soc."

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