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LEPIDOPTEiJA. 
Notes on the oviposition of various Lepidoptera'^ P. H. Jennings, 
Ent. viii. pp. 130, 131, 147-160, 172-175, 217 & 218. 
On the use of cyanide of potassium for killing moths ; J. E. Chase & 
W. V. Andrews, Canad. Ent. vii. pp. 97, 98, 138. . 
Directions for sugaring ; G. Norman, op. cit. pp. 61 & 62 ; H. Double- 
day, Ent. viii. pp. 106 & 107. 
Instructions for bleaching wings of Lepidoptera ; G. Dimmock, 
Psyche, i. pp. 97-99. 
For a rambling paper on the supposed genealogical descent of Lepi- 
doptera, incapable of being abstracted, cf. T. G. Gentry, P. Ac. Philad. 
1875, pp. 24-54. 
Great Britain. 
J. Merrin has published a second and greatly enlarged and improved 
edition of his “ Lepidopterist’s Calendar, giving the time when the 
British Lepidoptera appear in the egg, larval, pupal, and imago states, 
with their food plant and habitat.” Gloucester: 1875, 8vo, pp. viii. 
& 250. This work contains in a convenient form much useful informa- 
tion for working-Lepidopterists, besides that specified in the title, and in 
addition to the complete information furnished relating to the species 
which may be met with in their various stages during each month in 
the year, which forms the bulk of the book, has two appendices, one 
containing a list of the English and Latin names of plants mentioned, 
and another of all the British Lepidoptera, with parallel columns, show- 
ing the months in which they occur in all their stages. 
F. B. White continues his “ Insecta Scotica Lepidoptera,” from Ha- 
denO( to Chariclea, Scot. Nat. iii. pp. 29-32, 81-84, 129-132, 180-182. 
Additions to former parts ; J. Boswell Syme, op. cit. p. 9. 
Notes on Lepidoptera observed in Northumberland and Durham in 
1874; W. Maling, Tr. North. Durh. v. pp. 141-146. 
Additions to the list of Lepidoptera occurring in Guernsey and 
Sark ; W. A. Luff, Ent. viii. pp. 29-32. 
List of Micro- Lepidoptera taken or reared in 1874 ; W. Machin, Ent. 
viii. pp. 80-82. 
Captures at sallows ; G. F. Mathew, Ent. viii. pp. 99-103. 
Captures near Plymouth in June, 1872, by G. F. Mathew, pp. 13 & 
14 ; in the Lake District, by S. L. Mosley, pp. 19 & 20 ; at Whittles- 
ford, by A. 'k'liHrnall, pp. 52 & 53 ; in the New Forest in May and J uly, 
1874, by B. Cooper, pp. 84-86; at Limerick, by W. Talbot, p. 89; in 
Somersetshire, by F. Stansell, pp. 158 & 159 ; in Kent, by G. T. Porritt, 
pp. 218 & 219 ; in North Kent, by W. H. Tugwell, pp. 291-293 : Ent. 
viii. At Witherslack, by J. B. Hodgkinson, p. 13 ; in the Isle of Man, 
by G. T. Porritt, p. 138 : Ent. M. M. xii. And near Edinburgh, by 
W. A. Forbes, Scot. Nat. iii. p. 64. 
France. 
A. Guenee has published “ Statistique Scientifique d’Eure et Loire 
Lepidopteres ” (Chartres ; 1875). Not seen by the Recorder. Noticed 
in Zool. (2) X. p. 4668. It includes the Macro-Lepidoptera of the dis- 
