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Cocytodes coirulea (Guen.) polygrapha (Koll.), the cha- 
racters of genus and species are noticed {1. c. pp. 269-271) ; 
Achcaa melicerta (Drury), Samoa; Ophiusa achatina (Cram.), 
Fiji Islands; O.algira (Linn.) ; Heliothis peltigera (W., V.), New 
Zealand; Prodenia retina (Friv.), Fiji Islands. 
Wallace & Moore have published (Proc. Zool. See. 1866, pp. 366-365) a 
list of a small collection of Lepidoptera found in Fonnosa by Swinhoe. The 
collection contains 46 Rhopalocera and 93 Heterocera ; one-third of the 
latter belong to the Noctuidao. A few notes on the habits of some of the 
Butterflies are inserted. 
Mosciiler has given (Berl. ent. Zeits. 1866, pp. 136-146)) a list of the 
species of Lepidoptera collected by Count Hoffmannsegg in Andalusia in 1865, 
including notes on the variations of some of the species, and descriptions of 
several new and some known forms. 
Mann has published a list of Lepidoptera observed by him in the country 
round Tultscha in the Dobrudscha, from May to July 1866 (Verb, zool.-bot. 
Ges. in Wien, xvi. pp. 321-360). The list includes notices of the mode and time 
of occurrence of the species; and includes several hitherto regarded as Asiatic. 
ILeferstein publishes extracts from a letter from Dr. Behr, containing 
some notes on the occurrence of different forms of Lepidoptera, chiefly Rho- 
palocera, in California. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1866, pp. 100-101. 
A. Constant has published a catalogue of the Lepidoptera of the depart- 
ment of the Saone-et-Loire (see p. 434). 
The Entomologist, vol. iii. contains notes on captures of Lepidoptera at 
Deal by H. J . Harding (p. 24), in Scotland and elsewhere by E. C. Buxton, 
with notes by Newman (pp. 24-26), at Taunton by A. J. Spiller (pp. 29-30), 
near Dumfries by W. Lennon (pp. 73-74), at Burford by E. II. Todd 
(pp. 167-168), at Bury St, Edmunds by A. II. Wratislaw (p. 189), at 
Ipswich by T. Last (ibid.). 
Lists of captm’es of Lepidoptera in various parts of Britain are published, — 
by Geldart, the Lake-district (Ent. M. Mag. ii. p. 184), by W. R. Jeffrey 
near Saffron Walden (J. c. p. 186), by J. B. Hodginson, the north of England 
Q. c. pp. 186-188), by E. Skepper in Suffolk (1. c. p. 208), by E. Meek at 
Folkestone (/. c.’p. 210) by A. Edmonds in Worcestershire (Z. c. pp. 212- 
214, 236-236), by Canning (/. c. p. 261), by Horton at Witherslack (Ent. 
M. Mag. iii. p. 22), by Hodgkinson at Witherslack and Lytham (/. c. p. 37), 
by C. Campbell in the Isle of Man Q. c. pp. 88-90), by Blackburn in Perth- 
shire {1. c. pp. 116-117), by Longstaff at Rugby (Z. c. p. 138). 
Jordan has some remarks on Birchall’s Catalogue of Irish Lepidoptera. 
Ent. M. Mag. iii. pp, 109-110 (see p. 436). 
F. M. Alexander publishes a list of Lepidoptera observed at Saugor in 
Central India. Ent. M. Mag. ii. pp. 208-209). 
A. Young publishes some further notes on Persian Lepidoptera. Entomo- 
logist, iii. pp. 72-73. 
Notes on the unusual abundance of certain species of Lepidoptera in Hol- 
land during the year 1866 are communicated by Lewe van Middelstum, 
Snellen,' Medenbach de Rooy, and De Graaf (Tijdschr. voor Ent. 1866, pp. 
23-24). The species referred to are : — Aglia tau, Macroglossa stellatarwn, 
Orgyia ericce, Hibernia rupicapraria, and Neuronia popularis. Snellen re- 
marks on the injury caused to grass-lands by Charceas graminis. 
