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b)' W. H. Edwards, has reached the fifth part of the Second Series 

 (New York, 4to, 187G), containing an extensive series of illustra- 

 tions of Colias Philodice, Argynnis inornata and rupestris, and 

 Apatura Clyton and Proserpina, the synonym of which latter is 

 cleared up by a communication which I was enabled to make to 

 him of copies of Mr. Jones' original figures, from which Fabricius 

 drew his descriptions. 



Mr. Herman Strecker continues with unwearied zeal (con- 

 sidering the difiiculties of his position) his excellent ' Lepidoptera 

 Pliopaloceres and Pleteroceres,' the last part (No. 13) being devoted 

 to the illustration of a number of difiicult American species of 

 Sphingidre, admirabl}" lithographed by the author, who has, in his 

 usual style, seasoned his text with some sharp critiques of some 

 of the Lepidopterous writers of the United States. 



Dr. Rogenhofer has published, in the twenty-fifth volume of 

 the * Verhandlungen ' of the Vienna Zool. Bot. Soc, a series of 

 descriptions of the larvae of various butterflies and other Lepi- 

 dopterous insects of Austria. 



The Lepidoptera of Patagonia form the subject of a memoir by 

 Dr. Prof. C. Berg in the first volume of the 'Acta' of the 

 Academy of Cordova, published at Buenos Ayres, and simul- 

 taneously in the Moscow 'Bulletin' for 1876 (p. 191). Amongst 

 the Diurna one new species is described, Pieris Achamantis, near 

 Ilaire and Mceneste. 



In the first volume of the fourth series of the Lille ' Memoires,' 

 we find a "Catalogue des Lepidopteres du Departement du Nord, 

 par M. G. Le Roi" (omitting, however, all the Micro-Lepidoptera), 

 extending to sixty pages. 



Mr. Butler has contributed numerous papers on diiferent 

 families of Lepidoptera to the Linnean and Zoological Societies 

 and to the different periodicals, amongst which may be especially 

 mentioned "A Monograph of the Pierideous Genus Teracolus," 

 comprising 129 species, with illustrations of twenty-eight 

 species, published in the ' Proceedings of the Zoological 

 Society' (1876, p. 126); also "Notes on a Small Collection of 

 Butterflies from the New Hebrides" {ibid., p. 251); also "De- 

 scriptions of a few Eastern Lepidoptera from the Collection of 

 Lieut. H. Roberts" {ibid., p. 308) ; also "Notes on Z^-gainidse," in 

 which he has corrected numerous errors of INIr. Walker and 

 described numerous new species ; and his memoir " On the Sub- 



