BiBLIOGRArHY. 207 



IZhopalocera, by the editors, and the second volume of 

 Lepidopfera Heferoc€?-a, by Mr. H. Druce, are both approacli- 

 ing completion. 



IViSt Indies. 



Jamaica. 



As early as 1725, Sir Hans Sloane publislied the second 

 volume of his " Voyage to the Islands Madeira, Barbadoes, 

 Nieves, St. Christopher's and Jamaica," in which several species 

 of Lepidoptcra are recognisably figured, including the splendid 

 Cydimon sloamis (cf. our vol. iii. p. 48, pi. 73, fig. 2), which was 

 afterwards named after him. 



There is no comprehensive work on the Lepidcpfera of 

 Jamaica, though they are fairly well-known ; but only lists 

 of species, sometimes with descriptions and figures of new 

 ones, published in various periodicals by Gosse, Butler and 

 Moschler. 



Porto Rico. 



H. B. Moschler, at the time of his death, left a paper of con- 

 siderable length, entitled " Die Lepidopteren-Fauna von Porto 

 Rico," which was published at Frankfort-on-Main, in 1S90, 

 by his friend, Lieut. Saalmiiller, in the " Abhandlungen der 

 Senckenbergischen naturforschenden Gesellschaft," in which 

 periodical several of Moschler's papers had previously appeared, 

 including his "Beitriige zur Schmetterlings-fauna von Jamaica," 

 which was published in 1886. 



Cuba. 



It is curious that this island is the only one of the Antilles of 

 which the Lepidoptcra have been at all ade(|uately worked at; 

 for though the Lepidoptcra of Jamaica and Haiti are equally well 

 known, tlie information respecting them is scattered through 

 various books and periodicals, as is also the case with the- 



