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A memoir of Messrs. Godman and Salvin on butterflies from 

 Central America, containing twelve new species and one new 

 genus {Bolboneura, type Temenis sylphis, Bates), appears in the 

 Proceedings of Zool. Soc, 1877 (part i.) 



A tabulation of the difi&cult species of the genus of butter- 

 flies, Parnassius, is given by Schaufuss (' Nunquam Otiosus,' ii., 

 p. 419). 



The description of the preparatory states ol Argynms tiyrina, 

 with very precise notes of the times of moulting, is given by Mr. 

 W. H. Edwards in the 'Canadian Entomologist' for September, 

 1876 ; and the same writer has also described the preparatory 

 states of Lyccena comyntas in the same work. 



Mr. Hewitson has published another part of his beautiful work 

 on the LycanidcB in the course of the last year. 



In ' Equatorial Lepidoptera ' (part v.), Mr. Hewitson has also 

 described thirty new species of butterflies of different families 

 collected by Mr. Buckley in Bolivia. 



Descriptions of numerous new species of HesperidxB from various 

 countries are published by Mr. Hewitson in Annals Nat. Hist., 

 December, 1876, January, 1877, and October, 1877. 



The 16th and 17th parts of the ' Cistula Entomologica' con- 

 tain papers on species of Danaidce and HeliconidcD, by Mr. A. G. 

 Butler ; on new species of butterflies from the Japanese Island 

 of Niphon, by Mr. Oliver Janson ; also a paper on a Lepidopterous 

 genus, Cryptolechia (of which the family is not given), with twenty- 

 six species, by Mr. A. G. Butler, together with the description of 

 a new Abyssinian Attacus, by the last-named author. 



The genus of butterflies Euptychia, belonging to the family 

 SatyridcBfhaiS formed the subject of a memoir by Mr. A. G. Butler, 

 published in the ' Proceedings of the Linnaean Society ' (vol. xiii., 

 pi. 12.) One hundred and seventy-nine species are recorded, the 

 author having added sixty new species in 1866, and ten more in 

 1867, and thirteen additional are here described. The species, 

 which are entirely natives of South and Central America, are here 

 arranged in a number of groups, each named after a typical 

 species, without divisional characters. 



Nine new species of butterflies and moths of different families, 

 in the collection of the British Museum, from Lake Nyassa and 

 Queensland, are also described by Mr. Butler, in the Annals Nat. 

 Hist., June, 1877. 



