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LEPIDOPTERA. 
BY 
W. F. Kirby, M.E.S., &c. 
The General Subject. 
Aurivillius, C. Des caracteres sexuels secondaires chez les Papillons 
diurnes. Ent. Tidskr. i. pp. 163-166. 
Relates to colour, legs, nervures, plumules, palpi, &c. 
. Ueber sekundare Geschlechtscharaktere nordischer Tagfalter. 
Bihang Sv. Ak. Handl. v. No. 25, pp. 60, pis. iii. 
Relates chiefly to the scales of the wings, many of which are described 
and figured ; but also contains remarks on sexual variations in colour, 
legs, and scent-organs. 
Berg,” C. Apuntes Lepidopterologicos. An. Soc. Arg. x. pp. 34-44 & 
230-232. 
Includes notices of various known species of Mimallo, Bolocera^ Sire- 
biota, and Heliconisa, and of 3 larvae of other Bombyces. 
Boll, J. Ueber Dimorphismus und Variation einiger Schmetterlinge 
Nord-Amerika’s. Deutsche E. Z. xxiv. pp. 241-248 [from Verb. Ver. 
Hamb. iii. ; cf. Zool. Rec. xv. Bis. p. 161]. 
Breitenbach, W. Ueber die Function der Saftbohrer der Schmetter- 
lingsriissel. Ent. Nachr. vi. pp. 29-34. 
The “Saftbohrer” is an organ exhibiting various forms, which the 
writer has previously described as existing at the end of the proboscis of 
Lepidoptera. He considers it to be intended to pierce the soft portions 
of plants, and to be also an organ of taste. 
Buchecker, H. Systema Entomologias, sistens insectorum, classes, 
genera, species. Munich : 1880 [?], 6 parts, 8vo. Lepidoptera, ii. 
pis. i.-viii. & l.-lviii., viii. pis. i.-xxx. 
The volume on Neuroptcra of this general illustrated work on Entomo- 
logy was noticed in Zool. Rec. xv. Ins. p. 252. The six parts of Lepido- 
ptera mentioned above are all that have come under the Recorder’s 
notice, and contain figures, with occasional drawings of neuration and 
