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Thibet. E. Blanchard (0. R. Ixxii. pp. 809-811) remarks on a small col- 
lection formed by the Abbe Armand David in the province of Moupin, and 
characterizes, far too briefly, a few species as new. 
North America. Notes on Nova-Scotian species, by Bethune & Jones, 
P. N.-Scot. Ins. ii. pp. 178-189 (Rec. Am. Ent. 1869, pp. 20-29) ; and on 
species from Lakes Huron and Superior, by 0. J. S. Bethune, Canad. Ent. iii. 
pp. 81-84. 
G. J. Bowles {ibid. pp. 144 & 145) has also published a list of S'phingidce^ 
SesUdce^ ZygoinidcB, &c. taken at Quebec, with short notes on the species. 
South America. Von Nolcken publishes notes on species (principally 
Tineina) observed by him in different parts of the West Indies and New 
Granada, S. E. Z. xxxii. pp. 259-267, 610-314. 
A. R. Grote (Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. iii. pp. 183-188) gives a list of the SphingidcSf 
^geriidm^ Zygamidm, and BomhycidcB of Cuba. 
A. S. Packard remarks on a few moths collected by Hauxwell at Pebas, 
Ecuador : Rep. Peab. Ac. ii. & iii. pp. 85-87. , 
Africa. R. Trimen (P. L. S. xi. pp. 280-284) notes as inhabitants of St. 
Helena, Danais chrysipptrs, Pyrameis cardui (which probably also occurs at 
Ascension), Lycama hceticci, Diadema misippus, Acherontia atropos, Achcea me* 
Ucerta, Ophiodes hottentota, Hymenia recurvalis, and Botys otreusalis. He also 
gives a list of insects captured at sea, and remarks on stinging and venomous 
larvse, and on the geographical relations of African Lepidoptera. 
For a list of species observed at Ramleh, near Alexandria, by 0. Schneider, 
cf. SB. Ges. Isis, 1871, pp. 64 & 65. 
A. Gerstacker publishes a list of Lepidoptera from Zanzibar, and describes 
several new species : Arch. f. Nat. xxxvii. pp. 367-361. 
On a small collection of Butterflies from Angola, see Butler, P. Z. S. 1871, 
pp. 721-725. 
New Zealand. For some notes on the Lepidoptera of Otago, by A. Bath- 
gate, cf. Tr. N. Z. Inst. iii. pp. 137-141. 
Moth-trap. See Valette, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (6) i. Bull. pp. Ixxxiv & Lxxxv, 
Canad. Ent. iii. pp. 194 & 195, and C. A. Shaw, Ent. M. M. vii. p. 276. 
Sugaring. See F. B. White, Scot. Nat. i. pp. 29-36. 
On pinning Microlepidoptera^ cf. Pet. Nouv. iii. no. 35. 
H. G. Knaggs has published a second edition of his * LepidopterisPs Guide,’ 
with many illustrations of a practical nature. 
Staveley’s ‘ British Insects’ (see General Subject), ch. 20-22, pp. 265-296, 
pis. 10 & 11, contains a brief popular accounpof the principal groups of Lepi- 
doptera and of their transformations. 
In Wood’s ‘ Insects at Home ’ is an introduction to the British Lepidoptera 
(pp. 381-630, pis. 13-17), with descriptions, and figures of a considerable 
number of species. The work is illustrated with numerous woodcuts in ad- 
dition to the plates. 
The same author has published a popular work likely to be useful to be- 
ginners, entitled ‘ The Common Moths of England ’ (12mo, London : 1871, 
pp. 154, woodcuts and 12 plain or coloured plates). 
An anonymous popular work, entitled ‘ Curiosities of Entomology,’ con- 
tains the following chapters on Lepidoptera, each illustrated with a well- 
executed coloured plate : — The Microlepidoptera, or Leaf-miners,” pp. 26- 
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