584 ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
Prittwitz has commenced (Stett. ent. Zeit. J.865, pp. 123- 
143 and 307-325) an account of the Lepidoptera observed at 
the foot of the Corcovado, near Rio Janeiro. He gives an 
account of the general features and climate of the district, which 
is supplemented by a note from personal observation by C. A. 
Dohrn (pp. 127-128). The species referred to are allRhopalo- 
cera. The total number recorded is 125, of which 18 are de- 
scribed as new. 
Bircliall has commenced publishing some notes on the Lepidoptera of 
Ireland (Ent. M. Mag. i. pp. 270-272). Of Butterflies twenty-four of the 
British species have not yet been noticed in Ireland } the author adds four to 
the published list of Irish Butterflies, namely, Argynnis lathonia, Melitcea 
athalia, Vanessa polychloros, and Lyccena agestis, Theda hetulce is abundant 
in the west of Ireland j the species of Pieris are rare. 
Fauvel (M^m. Soc. Linn. Norm. tom. xiii.) enumerates 73 species of this 
family as inhabiting the department of Calvados — namely Papilionides 2, 
Pierides 10, Lycamides 19 (including Zyc. hcetica, cegon, cyllarus), Erycinidesi, 
Nymphalides 23 (inch Arg. dia, euphrosyne and selene^ Mel. artemis, pheehe^ 
partheniej Lim. poptdi, and Apat. ilid)^ Satyrides 10 (inch S. semtle^ Las. mcera^ 
megeera^ and cegei'ia, and Coen, arcanws), and Hesperiides 8 (inch H. aetceon 
and Syr. sao). 
Ballion, in his Catalogue of the Lepidoptera of Gorki (Bull. Soc. Nat. 
!Mosc. xxxvii. pt. 1. pp. 367-363), enumerates 72 species of Butterflies as 
occurring in that district, amongst which are two species of Zyccena and one 
of Melitcea which he has been unable to determine. 
Moore has indicated the contents of a small collection of Butterflies 
formed by Lang at great elevations (up to 14,800 and 18,000 feet) in the north- 
western Ilimalayas. Broc. Ent. Soc. 1865, p. 89. ( Vide infrh.) 
Papilionides, 
The following known species of fbis gvoup are described and figured by 
Bremer, M4m. Acad, de St. PtStersfi. tom. viii. ; — Papilio rgddei (!prem.), p. 3, 
ph 1. fig. 1 j P, :rw^^^^/^<5(Brem.), p. 4, ph 1. fig. 2j Parnassius hrtnneti (Feld.), 
ph 1. figs. 3 & 4^ Parnassius feldeii (Brem.), p. 6, ph 1. fig. 6. 
The following known species of this group are fully described and figured 
by C. and R. Felder, Reise der Novara, Zooh Bd. ii. Abth. ii. Heft 1 : — 
Leptocireus decius (Feld.), p. 1, ph 21. fig. a; Papilio (Ornithopterd) arruanus 
(Feld.), p. 3, ph 1. figs, a kh) P. (O.) criton (Feld.), p. 12, ph 3. figs. a-c‘, 
P. (O.) magellanus (Feld.), p. 14, ph 4. figs, a, 6; P. childrence (Gray), p. 21 j 
P. ei'ithalion (Boisd.) = P. alyattes $ (Feld.), p. 25, ph 6. fig. dy P. alyattes 
(Feld.), p. 26, ph 6. fig. e,f\ P. osyris (Feld.), p. 80, ph 9. figs, h-d j P. anax^ 
imenes (Feld.), p. 86, ph 7. fig. b’, P. latmus (Feld.), p. 39, ph 10. fig. b) P. 
lepidus (Feld.), p. 40, ph 10. fig. a j P. hostilius (Moritz, Feld.), p. 43, ph 9. 
fig. a J P. euryleoti (Hew.), p. 44, ph 6. fig. c J P. servillei (God.), p. 49 ; P. 
euphrates (Feld.), p. 64, ph 11. fig. d\ P. rama (Feld.), p. 71, ph 12. fig. d) 
P. melanthus (Feld.), p. 72, ph 12. fig. c j P. seottianus (Feld.), p. 73; P. /yco- 
(Hiibn.) $, p. 76; P. theramenes \ (F eld.), p. 78; P. (Feld.), 
p. 84, ph 13. figs, a, 6; P. eurotas (Feld.), p. 86 ; P. lyeortas (Feld.), p. 90 ; 
P. ledebouria (Esch.) $;p. 09; P. alphenor {0mm.) d, p. 101; P hippo^ 
