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INSECTAj LEPIDOPTERA. 
Godman (Nat. Hist, of Azores, pp. 101-1 OG) gives a list of the Lepidoptera 
found in these islands, 28 in number. Several even of this small number 
appear to have been introduced ; and all, with two exceptions, are well-known 
British species. 
0. S. Gbeqson publishes remarks on occasional second broods in single- 
brooded Lepidoptera. Ent. M, M. vii. pp. 18, 19. 
Laboulbene has published an article on L<5pidopt^res ” in the ‘Diction- 
naire Encyclop^dique des Sciences Mt^dicales.’ According to a notice in 
Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., Seances, 1870, p. 53, it contains a brief sketch of the 
natural and medical history of the order, remarks on so-called showers of 
blood, and a valuable bibliography. 
Nathusius publishes some microscopical observations on the development 
of the eggs in Abraxas grosstdariata, Pieris rupee or napi, and Vanessa uriicce. 
Z. wiss. Zool, xxi. pp. 130, 131. 
Riley’s second report on the noxious Insects of Missouri is reviewed, and 
several of the illustrations of Lepidoptera are reproduced in Amer. Nat. iv. 
pp. 610-616. [^The Recorder has not seen this work.] 
Snellen van Vollenhoven (Tijd. Ent. (2) v. pi. 6) figures varieties 
of Deilephila poi'cellus, Psilura monacha, Amphidasis betidaria^ Argynnis selenCj 
Sciaphila ictericana, Lithosia rosea. 
Stainton has published a list of all the new British Lepidoptera noticed 
in the ^Entomologist’s Annual ’ from 1851 to 1871. 222 species of Hetero- 
cera are recorded. Ent. Ann. 1871, pp. 108-116. 
Staudinger advocates careful comparative descriptions of new Lepido- 
ptera with the allied species. B. E. Z. 1870, p. 97. 
Wallace (Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection, pp. 45-129) 
has reprinted, with additions, his essay on Mimicry and other Protective 
Resemblances among Animals,” which contains much matter relating to 
Lepidoptera. 
J. Jenner Weir has published some additional notes on the relation 
between the colour and the edibility of Lepidoptera and their larvm, and 
suggests that the comparative abundance or scarcity of an insect may some- 
times be due to the presence or absence of some particular bird that feeds 
upon it. Tr. E. Soc. 1870) pp. 337-339. 
Zeller (Tijdschr. Ent. (2) v. pp. 229-262) has published a paper on 
the Lepidoptet'a of North-eastern Germany which appear towards the close 
of the year. He divides them into hybernating species, late-appearing spe- 
cies, hybernating late appearing species, and accidental stragglers, and enu- 
merates the species under each heading, often with lengthy notices of their 
larvm and ordinary times of appearance. Only a small portion of the paper 
has yet appeared. 
A series of articles on insects injurious to the vine has been published in 
Amer. Ent. ii., commencing with the Lepidoptera, which are very fully 
figured in all their stages. These articles will be referred to under the 
names of the species noticed. 
LARViE. Describing — W. Saunders, Canad. Ent. ii. p. 94 j Preserving — 
Fryer, Ent. M. M. vi. pp. 201-203 ; Parasitic on sloth in Guiana — Bar & 
Oberthur, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. Seances, 1870, p. 8. 
Lists of captures of Lepidoptera : — Britain, by E. Birchall, in Connemara 
(Ent. V. pp. 69, 70), in county Wicklow (1. c. pp. 121-123), in Sherwood 
