GENERAL NOTES, PAPlLlONIDiE. 
Ins, 147 
Grotc’s Check-List of N. American Noctuidcc, unfavourably ; Lepido- 
ptcra, pp. 118-120, 123. 
H. B. Moschler gives a thorough analysis of some of Crote’s recent 
lists of North American Sphinges and Bomhyces, with occasional criti- 
cisms ; S. E. Z. xxxvii. pp. 293-315. 
Additions to the Rhopalocera, Sphingidee^ and Zygeenidee of Montreal ; 
F. B, Caulfield, Canad. Ent. viii. pp. 38 & 39. 
List of Lepidoptera collected in the vicinity of Davenport, Iowa ; J. D. 
Putnam, P. Davenp. Ac. i. pp. 174-177. 
List of 14 butterflies captured by R. Thaxter on Cape Breton Island ; 
S. H. Scudder, P. Bast. Soc. xviii. pp. 188 & 189. 
On the natural history, habits, ravages, enemies, &c., of the various 
moths of which the caterpillars are known in America as “ army- 
worms”; cf. C. V. Riley, Rep. Ins. Mo. viii. pp. 22-26, 182-185, 
figs. 16-38. The species noticed (not all army- worms) are: — Anomis 
xylina, Say, Clisiocampa americana, Harr., Leucania unipuncta, Haw., 
Gortyna nitela and Laphygma frugiperda, Abb. & Smith. 
South and Oentral America. 
H. B. Moschler (Verb. z.-b. Wien, xxvi. pp. 293-354, pis. iii. & iv.) has 
published “ Beitrage zur Schmetterlings-Fauna von Surinam,” compris- 
ing notes on many known species of butterflies and Sphinges, and 
descriptions of some new. 
J. B. Capronnier’s paper on Yan Volxem’s Brazilian Lepidoptera is 
noticed, with comments, by C. Criiger, Yerh. Yer. Hamb. ii. pp. 132-135. 
H. Druce has published a list of the butterflies of Peru, with descrip- 
tions of new species, and notes (chiefly on habits and localities) by E. 
Bartlett, P. Z. S., 1876, pp. 205-250, pis. xvii. & xviii. 
Notes on the butterflies of Costa Rica, with descriptions of new 
species; W. L. Distant, P. E. Soc., 1876, pp. x.-xiv. 
Papilionidj;:. 
Papilio agamemnon, polytes, and memnon, Linn. Transformations 
noticed : M. C. Piepers, Tijdschr. Ent. xix, pp. 155-157. P. hippocrates^ 
Feld., var. oregonia, from the Columbia River, described ; W. H. 
Edwards, Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. v. p. 208. P. ^Wm,.Roak., ? described; H. 
Strecker, P. Ac. Philad., 1876, p. 150. P. machaon: uncertain duration 
of pupa state, R. Laddiman, Ent. ix. p. 20 ; it is double-brooded on 
the Continent, C. Bentham, Ent. ix. pp. 157 & 158; a variety noticed, 
Pet. Nouv., 1876, p. 18 ; larva found feeding on woodbine, De Lafi- 
tole, op. cit. p. 46; black variety of pupa, Swierstra, Tijdschr. Ent. 
xix. p. civ. 
Armandia thaidina^ Blanch., noticed and figured by C. Oberthur, 
Etudes Ent. ii. p. 18, pi. i. fig. 1. 
Parnassius apollo^ var. ; Parent & Rebec, Pet. Nouv. 1876, pp. 66 & 70. 
Papilio egipius, W. H. Miskin, Tr. E. Soc. 1876, p. 451, Queensland ; 
P. tragicus^ Zambesi, p. 56, auriger, Gaboon, and rhodifer, Andaman 
Islands, p. 57, A. G. Butler, Ent. M. M. xiii. ; P. indicatus, id. Ann. N. H. 
