RHOPALOCERA. 
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absent, and the fauna is generally very uniform in character. The N. -Indian 
species have a great aiBnity with those of Singapore ; those of S. India and 
Ceylon are imperfectly known ; but these districts are probably much poorer 
than N. India, with a larger proportion of African or Australian forms. The 
Australian region is poor in butterflies, though rich in peculiar forms of Le- 
picloptera Heterocera. The iS'earctic region is remarkably poor in peculiar 
forms, possessing hardly any which are not equally well represented in the 
Palaearctic region, and by no means all the Paleearctic forms. California and 
Chili properly belong to the Palaearctic region, and not to the Nearctic or 
Neotropical. The Neotropical region is remarkable for its enormous number 
both of species and characteristic forms. The line between the Nearctic and 
Neotropical regions appears to intersect the West Indies. The Mexican 
fauna is chiefly Neotropical. 
S. H. ScuDDER has published a " Systematic Eevision of some of the 
AmericanButterflies, with brief notes on those known to occur in Essex County, 
Mass." (Rep. Peab. Acad. iv. pp. 24-83 ; also separate, pp. 62). Many new ge- 
nera and species (the latter dllHesperiidce) are characterized, and short notes on 
the earlier stages of many species added. All old tribal names are restored 
throughout, independently of their terminations. Many known genera are 
recharacterized, and the types of all indicated, but perhaps in some instances 
incorrectly (reviewed Amer. Nat. vi. pp. 354-359). 
On nomenclature, with special reference to Scudder's revision, cf. Canad. 
Ent. iv. pp. 212-216, 218. 
Scudder copies Abbott's MS. notes on such Georgian butterflies as are 
also to be met with in the Northern States : Canad. Ent. iv. pp. 73 -77, 
84-87. 
Edwards's ' Butterflies of North America,' vol. i., has been completed by 
the issue of pt. 10 and a supplementary number. The appended " Synopsis 
of N. -American Butterflies " having been completed by the publication of 
pp. 39-52 (including the Hesperiides and supplement) has since been issued 
separately. It includes 509 species, against 137 known before 1852, as occur- 
ring in the United States and British America. 
On the Diurnal Lepidoptera described by Jablonsky & Herbst : W. F. 
Kirby, Tr. E. Soc. 1872, pp. 111-120. Herbst's classification is also no- 
ticed, /. c. 
On variation in butterflies : C. Oberthur, Pet. Nouv. 1872, p. 220^. 
On migration of butterflies, their settling on the sea, &c. : Holdsworth & 
Pocklington, Ent. vi. pp. 150-152 (extracted from the ' Field'). 
On the earliest and latest dates of appearance of some of the rarer British 
butterflies : J. C. Dale, Ent. vi. pp. 159-161. 
Papilionides. 
A list of the Papilionidce in the Museum of the Royal Dublin Society is 
published by W. F. Kirby, J. R. Dubl. Soc. vi. pp. 63-66. 
On Papiliopandarus, phorhanta, pelaus, miltiades, pompilius ( =policenes, Cr. ), 
attieus { = empedocles, ¥., nec Cr.), and apollinus, of Jablonsky & Herbst, cf. W. 
F. Kirby, Tr. E. Soc. 1872, pp. Ill, 112, 117. 
On aberrant variations in specimens of Papilio cloanthus, Parnassius apollOf 
delius, and clodius, and Thais polyxena, cf. R. P. Murray, P. E. Soc. 1872, 
pp. 33 & 34. 
