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INSECTA, LEPIDOPTERA. 
Boisduval (Pet. Nouv. no. 18) publisliea the following identifications of 
Rhopalocera described by Godart: — Nymphalis siva=liomaleosoma arcadmSf 
Fabr. j N. frandna^ Qodt., = i2om. sophron, Doubl. & Ilew. j N. isaUaris^ 
Godt., is an Emesis near orphna ; iV. eulimene^ Godt.,=iVe^9^is jocaste^ Feld. 
ScuDDER (P. Bost. Soc. xU. pp. 404-408) has published a list of a col- 
lection of butterflies made in Alaska by Lieut. W. II. Dali. It only con- 
tained 13 species. 
Trimen has published (Tr. E. Soc. Lond. 1870, pp. 341-390) a list of 02 
species of butterflies collected by J. H. Bowker in Basuto-land, with nume- 
rous notes on known species, and descriptions of several new ones. 
Kirby has published (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1870, pp. 133-152) a resume of the 
species of Diurnal Lepidoptera described by Linnjeus, in which he points out 
several corrections of synonymy. 
Kirby notes the occurrence of 68 species of butterflies, a list of which is 
appended, within three miles of the town of Hildeu, near DUsseldorf. J. B. 
Dubl. Soc. V. pp. 437, 441, 442. 
Several partially gynandromorphous butterflies have been exhibited by 
Prof. Westwood at the Entomological Society. Proc. E. Soc. 1870, p. 2. 
An article on Imitative Butterflies ” is published in Amer. Ent. i. pp. 
189-193, illustrated with woodcuts of Danais archippus and Limenitis di- 
sipptis. 
II. W. Parker publishes a list of 13 butterflies found in Iowa, iu addition 
to those previously recorded by Scudder in Tr. Ohic. Ac. (comp. Zool. liec. 
vi. p. 343). Amer. Ent. ii. p. 175. 
On rearing butterflies from the egg, see W. H. EdAvards, Canad. Ent. ii. 
pp. 116, 133, 134, 162-164. 
Papilionides, 
Wallace has reprinted the introductory portion of his paper on tho 
Malayan Papilionidce, in which ho reiterates liis previously expressed opinion 
that this group is the highest among the Lepidoptera^ and replies to various 
arguments Avhich have been brought against this view. 
Ornithoptera priamus. Kirby remarks on the differences between Cramer’s 
figure and the typical figure of this insect: Tr. E. Soc. 1870, p. 134. 
Maassen suggests that O. tithomis may be an accidental aberration of one of 
the subspecies of O. priamus : S. E. Z. 1870. 
Papilio. Butler (Oat. Lep. Fabr. pp. ^34-259) makes the following notes 
on various species of this genus : — V. pluenon, Koll, is a local form of P. 
vertu7miuSf Or. j P. arbates, Or., = P. anchiseSf L. ; P. iphidamas, cf. Gray, is 
distinct from that of Fabricius; P. harrisianus, Sw., = P. lysander, Fabr. j 
P. protesilaiis, Dru., = P. 7na7'cellinus, Doubl, = P. Fabr. ; P. leouidas, 
Fabr.,=P. smiilis, Or. nec L,, is an imitation of Danais leonora, Butl. j P. 
palamedes, Fabr. nec Dru., = P. acamas, Fabr.; P. briitus, Fabr., is probably 
distinct from P. 7nerope, Or. 
Butler (Lepid. Exot.) also figures the following species previously de- 
scribed by him i—Pjoesa, 1. c. pt. 3, Jan. 1870, p. 21, pi. 8. f. 1, 2 ; P. janoUj 
1. c. pt. 6, July 1870, p. 83, pi. 13. f. 1 ; P. kerosa, I c. f. 2; Pjuda, 1. c. p. 34, 
pi. 13. f. 3, 4. 
Boisduval remarks (L(5p. Guat. pp. 5-8) that his Pa}nlio Vorzce=^P. cal- 
liste, Bates; P. arcAestVaws, Feld., = mr?crosjYae^s, Boisd. MS. [Bates, P. Z. S. 
