GENERAL NOTES. 
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The effects of light and coloured glass on the colours of Lepidoptera 
discussed by J. B. Capronnier, CR. Ent. Belg. xix. pp. xiii. & xiv., li. & 
lii. The colours are least affected by yellow light. 
On variation of Lepidoptera, and the possible alteration of their colours 
by electricity, cf. Be Lafitole and B. de la Chavignerie, Pet. Nouv. 1876, 
pp. 62, 63, 69, & 70, and J. J. Weir, Ent. ix.'pp. 251-254. 
Vanessa urticce and Gonoptera Uhatrix hibernating in a church bell, 
regardless of the vibration ; H. Jenner Fust, jun., Ent. M. M. xiii. p. 16. 
On hybernating Lepidoptera ; H. C. Plotz, MT. Yorpomm. 1873 & 
1874. 
H. Poulin has published a pamphlet on transferring the colours of the 
wings of Lepidoptera to paper (Paris : 1876, 8vo). 
On bleaching or denuding the wings of Lepidoptera : O. Dimmock, 
P. Am. Ass. xxiv. pp. 228-230 ; H. B. Moschler, Ent. Nachr. ii. pp. 122 
& 123 ; and Y. T. Chambers, Can ad. Ent. viii. pp. 39 & 40. 
Observations on the senses of Lepidoptera ; “ P. O.,’’ Pet. Nouv. 1876, 
pp. 1 & 2. 
Moths exhibit a decided sense of hearing a highly-pitched note ; 
G. J. Romanes, Nature, xi. p. 177. 
Notes on rearing various Lepidoptera ; “P. G.,” Pet. Nouv. 1876, p. 87. 
On relaxing and preserving Lepidoptera ; E. Newman, J. Greene, and 
others, Ent. ix. pp. 137-140, 150-157, 180-182. 
A new moth-trap invented by H. Schirl described ; J. A. Richter, Ent. 
Nachr. ii. pp. 26-29, pi. ii. 
Sulphate of zinc recommended for killing Lepidoptera ; Eugster, MT. 
schw. ent. Ges. iv. pp. 514-517. 
Sugaring : W. Sanderson, G» T. Porritt, and W. W. Keyworth, Ent. 
M. M. xii. pp. 207 & 236, xiii. p. 16, Ent. ix. pp. 20-22. 
The comparative anatomy of the silk-glands in the full-grown larvse of 
many species of Lepidoptera, and the changes which they undergo during 
the larval and pupal states are described at length by F. E. Helm, Z. wiss. 
Zool. xxvi. pp. 434-469, pis. xxvii. & xxviii. 
On preserving larvae; H. A. Auld and others, Ent. ix. pp. 78-82, 
104-107, 139 & 140, 157. 
An unknown larva (ichneumoned) noticed ; G. de Rossi, Ent. Nachr. 
ii. pp. 80 & 81. 
On a new method of rearing pupae, with diagram of the apparatus 
employed; H. Backhaus, S. E. Z. xxxvii. pp. 192-194; translated Ent. 
M. M. xiii. pp. 16 & 17. 
Notes on some Lepidoptera from Guayaquil, the Philippines, and 
China; C. Criiger & G. Semper, Yerh. Yer. Hamb. ii. pp. 129-131, 
144-146. 
Great Britain. 
F. B. White has continued his list of the Lepidoptera of Scotland, 
from Hydreliaio Fidonia\ Scot. Nat. iii. pp. 227-230,274-276, 319, 320, 
360-367. 
Captures at Pembroke by C. G. Barrett, Ent. M. M. xii. pp. 181-184, 
xiii. pp. 36 & 37, 92 & 93 ; at Yentnor, by C. J. Buckmaster, op. cit. xii. 
