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Lepidoptera of Australia " (Sydney : 1873, 8vo, pp. iv. 24) compiled, with 
scarcely an alteration, and inclusive of press errors, from the Recorder's 
• Synonymic Catalogue of Diarnal Lepidoptera.' 
Captures in S. Australia, by H. R. Cox, Ent. vi. pp. 357-359, 401, 402. 
Gr. Semper notices 12 Lepidop)tera collected in the Island of Yap, in 
the South Seas, and figures the earlier stages of several. J. Mus. Godeffr. 
ii. pp. 59-64, pi. vii. 
A. Gc. Butler re-describes and figures a few previously unfigured butter- 
flies, chiefly from the South Sea Islands : Brenchley's Cruise of the 
Curacoa, [cinte^ p. 346], pp. 464-474, pis. xlvi.-l. 
North America. 
A. M. Ross (' The Butterflies and Moths of Canada, with descriptions 
of their colour, size, and habits, and the food and metamorphoses of their 
larvae ' : Toronto : 1873, 8vo, pp. 93, woodcuts) gives a selection from the 
more common and conspicuous species. 
Grote has published a supplement to the Descriptions of American 
Lepidoptera by himself and Robinson, including a systematic list of the 
species published in this series of papers. Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. iv. pp. 425- 
435. He has also published a series of papers on North American moths, 
remarking on various known species, describing many new ones, and 
remarking on the classification of the Lepidoptera generally. Bull. Buff. 
Soc. i. pp. 1-16, 73-94, 168-174, pi. i. 
A. S. Packard (Am. Nat. vii. pp. 453-458, reprinted from P. Bost. 
Soc. 1873) compares the distribution of Calif ornian moths with that of 
other animals. The Geometrce may be classed into 4 groups : 1, exclu- 
sively American ; 2, European and American ; 3, Circumpolar or Cos- 
mopolitan ; 4, Species common to both the Atlantic and Pacific States. 
The same author has also published ' Notes on North American Moths 
of the families Phalcmidce and Pyralidce^in. the British Museum' (Rep. 
Peab. Ac. v. pp. 82-92). These notes do not admit of abridgment, 
and relate solely to the specimens now extant in the British Museum 
under Walker's names, without any attempt to compare them with his 
published descriptions. Grote (I. c. pp. 156-160) compares Packard's 
results with his own. 
P. C. Zeller has published ' Beitrage zur Kenutniss der ndrdameri- 
canischen Nachtfaltern, besonders der Microlepidopteren,' pt. 2 (Verh. 
z.-b. Wien, xxiii. pp. 201-334, pis. iii. & iv.). A great number of new 
species are described, and known species criticised. The N. American 
Tineina will probably prove to be about as numerous as the European ; 
but the number of peculiar forms is very small. 
South America. 
Captures at Huasampilla, Peru, by H. B. Whitely, with descriptions 
of new species ; A. G. Butler, Ann. N. H. (4) xii. pp. 219-230. 
Papilionidjc. 
Papilio ( OrnUhoptera) cassandra, Scott, figured and re-described ; 
A. G. Butler, Brenchley's Cruise of the Cura9oa, p. 474, pi. 1. 
