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'Etudes d'Etitomologie, Premiere livraison, Faune des Lepi- 

 dopteres d'Algerie : Deuxieme livraison, Nouveaux Lepidopteres de 

 la Chine.' By Charles Oberthur (Rennes, 1876), Under this title 

 M. Oberthur, the purchaser of the famous lepidopterous collection 

 of M. Boisduval, has brought out the first two parts of a splendid 

 work, in small folio, with charming coloured plates, containing 

 descriptions and figures of new species of lepidopterous insects 

 from Algeria and China; amongst the latter the famous Armandia 

 Thaitina is represented. 



The second series of the continuation of Sepp's ' Nederlandische 

 Insecten' has been continued, by Dr. S. C. Snellen van Vollen- 

 hoven, by the publication of excellent coloured plates, and 

 descriptions of the following species of moths and their trans- 

 formations: — Harpella bractella, Ino Pruni, Paraponyx stratio- 

 lata, Solenohia triquetrella, EphesUa interpunctella, Coleophora 

 solilariella, Pempelia BetulcB, Metrocampa margaritaria, Gra- 

 pholitha Woeherana, Lioptilus tephiadactylus, Adela DeGeerella, 

 and Eugonia fuscantaria. 



The lepidopterous fauna of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands 

 forms the subject of a memoir by Mr. F. Moore, published iu the 

 Proceedings of the Zool. Soc. of London, June ]9, 1877. Two 

 hundred and seventy-four species (including one hundred and four 

 Diurna) are introduced into this memoir, of which a considerable 

 number are new. Three coloured plates, and an excellent 

 geographical tabulation of the species, complete the technical 

 descriptions and lists. 



Twenty-seven new species of Oriental butterflies of different 

 families are described by Mr. F. Moore, iu the Annals of Nat. 

 Hist., July, 1877; and a number of new species of heterocerous 

 Lepidoptera of the tribe Borabyces, collected by Mr, W. B, Pryer, 

 chiefly in the district of Shangai, are also described by Mr. Moore, 

 in the Annals Nat. Hist., Aug. 1877 ; and the same author has also 

 published the descriptions of twenly-five species of Lepidoptera of 

 different groups, including nine Diurna (Ann, Nat. Hist., Oct, 1877). 

 Mr. W. F. Kirby has published the Supplement to his Synonymic 

 Catalogue of Diurnal Lepidoptera, from March, 1871, to June, 1877 

 (8vo ; London, Van Voorst ; 200 pages). 



The Transactions of the Natural History Society of Northumber- 

 land and Durham (vol, v., pt, 3) contain papers on the Lepidoptera 

 of those counties, by W. Maliug and J. C. Wassermann. 



