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LEPIDOPTERA. 
Asia, 
F. Sintenis criticises Koch^s Indo-Australisclie Lepidopteren Fauna, 
ed. 2 ; SB. Ges. Dorp. iii. pp. 464-469. 
Notes on Japanese butterflies ; R. P. Murray, Ent. M. M. xi. pp. 
169-172, xii. pp. 2-4. 
Captures at Magi Dagh, &c. ; A. Becker, Bull. Mosc. 1875, iii. p. 137. 
List of butterflies collected in Siam by Thomson ; H. W. Bates, in 
J. Thomson’s “ Straits of Malacca” (London : 1875, 8vo), pp. 545 & 546. 
P. C. T. Snellen mentions some European Lepidopterato\xii^ in Java ; 
Tijdschr. Ent. xviii. p. xix. 
Australia, ^c. 
A. G. Butler (Contributions towards a knowledge of the Rhopa- 
locera of Australia j Tr. E. Soc. 1875, pp. 1-10) describes a few new 
species, and criticises the publications of Masters & Miskin. 
List of Butterflies collected by W. W. Perry in the New Hebrides and 
Loyalty Islands (41 species, many new) ; id. P. Z. S. 1875, pp. 610-619, 
pi. Ixvii. 
Six species collected by Perry in Fiji noticed ; id. 1. q. pp. 619 & 620. 
Africa, 
H. Druce has published a list of the Diurnal Lepidoptera (166 
species) obtained by J. J. Monteiro in Angola, with descriptions of a few 
new species and varieties. The fauna of Angola appears more to 
resemble that of the Cape and Natal than that of the tropical West Coast 
of Africa. P. Z. S. 1875, pp 406-417. 
List of a collection of Lepidoptera from Natal (138 species, many new); 
A. G. Butler, Ann. N. H. (4) xvi. pp. 394-420. 
The Lepidoptera of St. Helena are discussed by J. C. Melliss in his 
work on that island, pp. 180-193. He enumerates 47 species (of which 
20 are described as new by F. Walker) mostly with remarks on their 
habits and transformations. 
North America, 
P. C. Zeller, “ Beitrage zur Kenntniss des nordamericanischen Nacht- 
f alter, besonders der Microlepidopteren, 3‘® Abth.,” Verb. z.-b. Wien, 
XXV. pp. 207-360, pis. viii.-x., notices and in most cases redescribes a 
large number of known North American species, besides describing and 
figuring many new forms. The bulk of the paper is devoted to the Tor- 
tricidce. 
On the effects of the Glacial Epoch on the distribution of Lepidoptera 
in North America ; A. R. Grote, Canad. Ent. vii. pp. 164-167. 
On the transformations of various Pacific Coast Lepidoptera] H. Ed- 
wards, P. Cal. Ac. V. pp. 325-332, 367-372. 
S. H. Scudder proposes English names for New England Butterflies ; 
Psyche, i. pp. 40, 43, 44, & 56. 
Notes on the eggs and larvae of some North American butterflies, with 
remarks on the hest means of inducing butterflies to lay ; T. L. Mead, 
Canad. Ent. vii. pp. 161-163. 
