157 



The Lepidoptera of Lake Superior have been described by Dr. T. W. Harris, in 

 Professor Agassiz's work on Lake Superior. 



A controversy on the adoption by Mr. Stephens, of the generic names of Lepido- 

 ptera proposed by Hubner in his ' Verzeichniss,' has been carried on by Messrs. H. 

 Doubleday, Guenee, and Stephens, in the 'Zoologist.' It is clear, that if any of Hiib- 

 ner's groups are well founded, and had not been previously indicated and named, his 

 generic names must be adopted. 



The question as to the superior value of the characters derived from the transfor- 

 mations of Lepidopterous insects, has been further discussed by M. Bruand (Ann. Soc. 

 Ent. Fr. ix. 89), who has replied to M. Guenee, and corrected his figures of the veins 

 of the wings of Noctuaj Batis and derasa. 



Diurna. 



The publication of the ' Genera of Diurnal Lepidoptera,' commenced by the late 

 Mr. Edward Doubleday, and continued by myself, with illustrations by Mr. Hewitson, 

 has been continued, the work being now nearly completed. 



The 1st quarterly part of a new work by Mr. Hewitson, containing illustrations 

 of new species of exotic butterflies, has also appeared. Each number is to contain 3 

 plates, each plate several figures, according to the size of the species. The 1st part 

 contains various new species of the genera Ithomia, Catagramma, and Epicalia.* 



Mr. Hewitson has published a memoir in our ' Transactions ' on four new Brazi- 

 lian butterflies, and notes on the identification of the sexes of various Brazilian spe- 

 cies of Papilio, hitherto regarded as distinct, (n. s. i. 97). 



A memoir by M. Kollar on the diurnal Lepidoptera of New Granada and Vene- 

 zuela, containing descriptions of new species of Papilio, Morpho, and Pieridae, with 4 

 plates, has appeared in the 1st volume of the ' Transactions of the Royal Academy of 

 Sciences of Vienna.' 



A critical revision of tbe European butterflies has been published by Keferstein in 

 the 'Zeitung' of the Stettin Entomological Society, pp. 220, 242, 272. 



Several livraisons of a new work by M. De la Haye, on tbe Lepidoptera of France, 

 containing beautifully coloured figures of all species, at a very low price, have appeared. 



M. Alex. Lefebvre (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. ix. 71) has given us a remarkable memoir 

 on the fossil Lepidopterous insect figured by Dr. Boisduval in the 1st series of the 

 ' Annales ' (ix. 371, pi. 8), under the name of Cyllo sepulta, but which from a consi- 

 deration of the veins of the wings, M. Lefebvre regards as allied to Vanessa Archesia, 

 tbe anterior (and not the posterior wings, as supposed by Boisduval) wings being 

 strongly angulated, instead of the hind ones being furnished with a short tail, and the 

 markings on the supposed hinder wings being those of the under side of the fore wings. 



A note on the North- American species of the genus Papilio, by Dr. J. P. Kirt- 

 land, has appeared in our ' Proceedings,' p. 101. 



Papilio Telamon of Donovan has been formed into a new genus, Sericinus ; and 



* From information received from Mr. Bates, in South America (which I have con- 

 firmed by an examination of the feet of all the specimens in the British-Museum col- 

 lection), it appears that the orange-spotted species of Epicalia are the males of the 2nd 

 section of Myscelia, to which Mr. E. Doubleday applied Hiibner's name Catonephele, 

 (Gen. D. Lep. 222). 



