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eented ; the butterflies, Bombyces, and Tme^ badly : Tr. N. Z. Inst. iv. pp. 
214-218. 
America. H. D. J. Wallengren enumerates 35 Lepidoptera as occurring 
in the small Caribbean island of St. Bartholomew. Three new species are 
described in Latin ; the remainder of the paper is in Swedish. CEfv. Vet. 
Ak. 1871, pp. 909-919. 
Captures in New- York State by J. A. Lintner, Rep. N.-York Cab. xxiii. 
pp. 180-197. 
* A Classified Catalogue of the Lepidoptera of Canada,' Toronto, 1872, 8vo, 
pp. 9, has been published by A. M. Ross, containing the name of one new 
species. 
On Butterflies and Sphinges collected at Fox Bay, Anticosti, and the 
north shore of the St. Lawrence : W. Couper, Canad. Ent. iv. pp. 201-206. 
On the Lepidoptera of Nova Scotia : J. M. Jones, Tr. N. Scot. Inst. iii. 
pp. 18-27, 100-103. 
A few Lepidoptera from Camel's Hump, Orleans Co., are mentioned by P. 
S. Sprague, Arch. Sci. Orl. Co. i. pp. 87 & 88. 
List of Butterflies collected by Campbell Carrington and W. B. Logan in 
1871 at Montana, Yellowstone, Colorado, Nevada, &c., cf. W. H. Edwards, 
Hayden's Rep. of U. S. Geol. Survey of Montana &c. pp. 466 & 467. 
A list of 113 butterflies occurring in the State of New York : J. A. Lintner^ 
Rep. N. Y. S. Cab. xxiii. pp. 176-179. 
Captures of butterflies in Massachusetts and Iowa : H. W. Parker, Am. 
Nat. vi. pp. 115 & 116. 
E. Newman, Zool. (s. s.) vii. pp. 2877-2898, reviewing Kirby's ' Catalogue 
of Diurnal Lepidoptera,' gives a sketch of the systems of Ray, Haworth, 
Leach, Latreille, Herrich-Schaffer, Newman, and Kirby [which latter differs 
little from that previously proposed by Bates]. 
G. R. Crotch reviews the generic nomenclature of Lepidoptera from 1735 
to 1816, and attempts to fix the types of the genera with precision : Cist. Ent. 
pp. 59-71, 91 & 92. 
On the changes of nomenclature in Staudinger & Wocke's Catalogue : 
Staudinger, De Borre, & Guenee, Pet. Nouv. 1872, pp. 180 & 181, 184 & 185. 
An obituary notice of R. Felder's life and works : J. R. Schiner, Verb, 
z.-b. Wien, xxii. pp. 41-50, 
Rhopalocera. 
Parts 81-84 of Hewitson's ^ Exotic Butterflies,' and parts 11-14 of Butler's 
' Lepidoptera Exotica,' have appeared within the year. 
W. F. Kirby (On the Geographical Distribution of the Butterflies as com- 
pared with that of the Birds, P. L. S. Zool. xi. pp. 431-439) adopts Sclater's 
regions of distribution, and indicates the representative genera of each. 7600 
birds are mentioned by Sclater, and 7700 butterflies by Kirby. The number 
of birds slightly predominates in all districts except the Neotropical, where 
there are 4200 butterflies to 2250 birds. The Palsearctic and Nearctic fauna) 
can scarcely be considered primary divisions. Within the Paloearctic region 
are the Arctic, Central (including the Alpine), and Mediterranean faunas, and 
probably a " Stoppe-fauna " in ('cntral Asia. Africa possesses a number of 
peculiar forms ; but most of the characteristic Palaearctic and Indian forms are 
