Miscellaneous. 475 
and scattered remains should no longer be decipherable by the 
expert alone, but come into congruous and intelligible forms, readily 
to be understood by any, even a popular, student of nature. 
In this first issue the Mammals and Reptiles have special notice, 
the Fishes and Invertebrates not having yet been completely 
arranged in the new rooms and cases. For all, however, there are 
good general remarks as to their natural classification and occur- 
rence, whilst for the two first-mentioned groups there is much valu- 
able information, with a geological table showing their range in 
time, and thirty-one good figures, eight of which are original, the 
others having been borrowed from the publishers of first-class 
paleontological books. 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Norwegian and Scottish Lepidoptera. By M. W. M. Scuoyen. 
M. Schoyen publishes in the ‘Nyt Magazin for Naturvidenska- 
berne’ (vol. xxvil. pp. 1-54) an elaborate account of the investiga- 
tions he made in 1880 into the Lepidopterous fauna of the district 
of Romsdal, the coast district of Norway between 60° and 64° N. 
lat. He gives a list of 356 species, a great many of which occur in 
this country; and his remarks upon some of them will be of interest 
to British lepidopterists. 
In his introductory remarks he institutes a comparison between 
the Lepidopterous faunas of Norway, east and west of the mountain- 
chain, and between those of Norway and Scotland, which will prove 
of more general interest. His comparison of the known species of 
Lepidoptera in Kastern and Western Norway under the same latitudes 
is as follows :— 
Norway Norway 
west of the Fjeld. _east of the Fjeld. 
HUH OpPAlOCeray stasis see => 47 82 
SPlges ety) Mattias 5 rte 12 29 
Bomibyces tiated 6.022 stra et 36 69 
LIOGHTEE BAe aes nb une See 83 196 
Geometre) cise cieve sieves vers ... 95 170 
Macrolepidoptera ..... joe 2 28 546 
YEARNS Foci nc caste eies ce ares 37 
ANGTETICES rapes otarotate) oy<)osaiotei 52 160 
MIMeIAES tote sow es etre bs 66 165 
Pterophorides ©...........% O 23 
Microlepidoptera ........ 162 425 
