148 Ins. 
LEPIDOPTERA. 
(4) xviii. p. 248, New Guinea ; P. tamerlanus [= aUhion, Gray, teste 
Hew. in litt.],p. 13, pi. ii. fig. 1, lama, p. 15, pi. iii. fig. 1, iiiaA. plutonius, 
p. 16, pi. iii. fig. 2, all from Mou-pin, C. Oberthnr, Etudes Ent. ii. : 
spp. nn. 
Purycus troilus, sp. n., A. G. Butler, Ann. N. H. (4) xviii. p, 247, New 
Guinea. 
PlERIDiE. 
Leptalis. F. Muller discusses the question of mimicry in this genus, 
and concludes that the parent form was not a white, but a black and 
yellow butterfly. Jen. Z. Nat. x. pp. 1-12. 
Terias candace, Feld., = T. zoe, Hopff., var. ; A. G. Butler, Ann. N. H. 
(4) xviii. p. 486. T. hecahe, Linn. : a Javanese variety approaching T. 
brenda, Doubl., noticed; M. C. Piepers, Tijdschr. Ent. xix. p. 155. 7\ 
lisa: an immense flight arrived in the Bermudas, Oct. 1, 1874. As the 
nearest land is 600 miles distant, it is suggested that a revolving gale may 
have carried up a swarm into the higher regions of the atmosphere, and 
they may have there met with a direct gale blowing them out to sea. 
J. M. Jones, Psyche, 1875, p. 121 ; Ent. ix. pp. 54-58. Cf. also H. 
Reeks, Ent. ix. pp. 86 & 87. 
Aporia cratcegi. A pupa, pinned two days after its change, produced 
the perfect insect ; Wurtbein, Pet. Nouv. 1876, p. 56; cf. also “M. G.,” 
p. 57. 
Pieris. Enormous swarms in the Baltic, Aug. 12, 1876; Ent. Nachr. ii. 
pp. 173 & 174 (copied from the Weser Zeitung). Dates of first appear- 
ance in Isle of Man ; E. Birchall, Ent. M. M. xiii. p. 10. Notes on para- 
sites ; R. Meldola, P. E. Soc. 1876, p. xxxv. P. hrassicce : G. A. Dohrn 
doubts the accuracy of the statement published in a Hamburg periodical 
that the traffic on the railway between Hamburg and Lubeck was once 
stopped for several days by hosts of the larvae crossing the line ; S. E. Z. 
xxxvii. pp. 108 & 109. On cutting the girdle of several larvae of P. 
hrassicce which were about to change to pupa, some of them succeeded in 
attaching themselves by the tail after the manner of the Suspensi, and 
in accomplishing their metamorphosis ; J. A. Osborne, Nature, xv. 
p. 7. P. coronea, niseia, and teutonia may be only varieties : the larva of 
the last lives on Cucurhitacece \ J. D. E. Schmeltz, Verh. Ver. Hamb. ii. 
pp. 190 & 191. P. ergane and manni are probably only forms of P. 
rapes ; P. Stefanelli, Bull. Ent. Ital. viii. Addunza, p. 7. P. napi, var. ; 
Parent & Rebec, Pet. Nouv. 1876, pp. 66 & 70. P. raj)ce, var. aurea : 
under this new name, R. A. Rolfe remarks on the new American var. 
novanglioe, Scudd., which he has failed to reproduce by difference of food 
in England ; Ent. ix. pp. 199-201. 
Cathcemia hyparete, Linn. Transformations noticed ; M. C. Piepers, 
Tijdschr. Ent. xix. p. 154. 
Pinacopteryx syrinx, Wallengr., = P. severina, Cram., var. ; H. D. J. 
Wallengren, OEfv. Ak. Forh. xxxii. p. 90. 
Ilerpccnia tritogenia, Klug, is probably distinct from II. criphia, Luc. ; 
A. G. Butler, Aim. N. H. (4) xviii. p. 490. 
Callidryas. These butterflies fertilise a Brazilian species of Hedy- 
