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In the Proceedings of the Natural Science Association of Staten 

 Island, for March 1886, Mr. Davis has recorded sixty species of butter- 

 flies as found upon Staten Island, naming the recent additions to a 

 former list. 



Other contributions to the Lepidoptera have been made by Messrs. 

 Beuttenmiiller, Bates, Clark, Fischer, Fletcher. French, Goodhue. Grote, 

 Hamilton, Harrington, Kellicott, Moeschler. Smith, Stretch, Tepper, 

 and Mrs. C, H. Fernald and Miss Murtfeldt. 



It is gratifying intelligence that the two volumes of the Butterflies of 

 North America, for which we are indebted to Mr. W. H. Edwards, is to 

 be followed by a third, work upon which has been commenced. As the 

 volumes already issued have furnished the American student with a better 

 series of life-histories of butterflies than have ever been published else- 

 where, while enriched with illustriations which in beauty and accuracy 

 have never been surpassed, it is to be regretted that their author should 

 be compelled to find the reward for his years of untiring labor in the 

 honor that they bring him, and not in a pecuniary return. A merited 

 tribute to the high character of this work, may be found in Science for 

 October 9, 1885 (p. 307). 



The Butterflies of New England, which has been under the pen and 

 pencil of Mr. S. H. Scudder for several years, and which has been so 

 long awaited by Entomologists, is, we learn, rapidly approaching com- 

 pletion. Having had the privilege of examination of several of the 

 plates which are being printed at the well-known house of Sinclair & Sons, 

 Philadelphia, by the chromo-lithographic process, I can only say of them, 

 that they are marvels of faithfulness and beauty, hardly to be distinguished 

 from hand-coloring. They certainly mark an advance in the application 

 of this art to insect illustration that has never before been equaled in this 

 country or in Europe. 



A Hand book of all the Lepidoptera described as belonging to the North 

 American Fauna North of Mexico, giving brief descriptions of all the 

 species known, to be illustrated with wood-cuts and lithographic plates, 

 under the editorship of Mr. Henry Edwards of New York, has been an- 

 nounced. It will be issued in parts, by S. E. Cassino, as stated in a cir-. 

 cular distributed, and will be commenced as soon as a sufficient number 

 of subscribers can be obtained. 



Mr. R. H. Stretch is engaged on a Monograph of the Zygaenidve. 

 Lithosiidce and Arctiidce of North America, in which it is intended to 

 collate all the literature relating to these families, and to illustrate all the 

 species. About 350 figures have already been drawn for the work. 



DIPTERA. — We'are unable to report much progress upon this 

 oidei during the year. 



