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LEPIDOPTERA. 
Neotropical Region. 
W. C. Hewitsou has published “ Descriptions of new specjes of butter- 
flies collected by Mr. Buckley in Bolivia ” (London ; 1874, 8vo, pp. 22). 
62 species. 
List of, 180 butterflies (10 new) collected by 0. Van Volxem in Brazil, 
in 1872, with dates, localities, &c. ; J. B. Capronnier, Ann. Ent. Belg. 
xvii. pp. 5-39, pi. 1. 
List of butterflies of Costa Rica (434 species, some new) ; Butler & 
Druce, P. Z. S. 1874, pp. 330-370. 
Habits of Nicaraguan butterflies ; T. Belt, “ Naturalist in Nicaragua ” 
\_anted, p. 247], pp. 108 & 109. On the migrations of Timetes, Calli- 
dryas, and Urania, id. 1. c. pp. 152-154. 
Captures in South America ; G. F. Mathew, Ent. vii. pp. 62-GG. 
Papilionid.®. 
Ornithoptera pompeus, var. hepluestus, Feld. ; C. Hopffer, S. E. Z. xxxv. 
p. 18, n. 2. 
H. Edwards describes the transformations of P. philenor, zolicaon, as- 
terias, and eurymedon, and the pupa of P. rutulus ; P. Cal. Ac. v. 
pp. 1G2-165. 
Fapilio antlcoatensid : imniaturo larva figured ; II. Strecker, Lepi- 
doptera, pi. viii. lig 13. F. hrevicauda may be the original form from 
which P. asterias is descended ; W. Couper^ Canad. Ent. vi. pp. 33-37. 
The larva differs from that of P. asterias ; W. V. Andrews, op. cit. 
p. 20 : cf. also A. R. Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. i. p. 185. P. castor and 
pollux, Westw., are quite distinct, and Semper has figured P. pollux 
under the former name ; J. O. Westwood, Thes. ent. oxon. p. 185. ' F. 
copance, Reakirt, figured and re-described by H. Strecker, Lepidoptera, 
p. Gl, pi. viii. fig. 1. P. crespliontes : deformity in prolegs of a larva; 
S. H. Scudder, Psyche, i. p. 12. P. daunus figured ; W. H. Edwards, 
Butt. N. Amer. ii. Fap. pi. ii. P. eurymedon figured and described in all 
stages ; id. 1. c. Fap. pi. i. P. godarti, Montr., is distinct from P. onesi- 
mus, Hew. ; A. G. Butler, P. Z. S. 1874, p. 290. P. hippodamus, Feld., 
is quite distinct from P. servillii, Godt. ; J. A. Boisduval, Bull. Soc. Ent. 
Fr. (5) iv. pi. cliii. P. merope described, and transformations figured 
by J. P. Mansel Weale, Tr. E. Soc. 1874, pp. 131-13G, pi. i. On its 
different forms, among which the West African form is sufficiently dis- 
tinct to rank as a species ; R. Trimen, op. cit. pp. 137-153. F. nireus : 
on the habits of the larva, and the assimilation of the colours of the 
pupa to the surface to which it attaches itself ; M. E. Barber, Tr. E. Soc. 
1874, pp. 519-521, pi. ix. : cf. also P. E. Soc. 1874, p. xxiv. P. orahilis 
and clusoculis figured and re-described by A. G. Butler, Lep. Ex. p. 163, 
pi, Iviii. figs. 1 & 2. P. pamphylus, Feld. ; C. Hopffer, S. E. Z. xxxv. 
p. 18, n. 7. P. podalirius does not occur in Russian Turkestan ; N. 
Erschoff, Lep. Turk. p. 1, note. [It occurs in Persia ; but its reputed 
occurrence at Masuri, N. India, requires confirmation.] P. proteus, 
Boisd., noticed ; J. B. Capronnier, Ann. Ent. Belg. xvii. p. 8. P. turnus : 
natural history, with figures of darva and imago ; W. Saunders, Canad. 
