140 Ins, 
LBPIDOPTERA. 
and the ontogeny of larv£B of Noctuce (pp. 520 & 621). F. Muller’s paper 
on Acrcea and the Maracuja Butterflies is translated (pp. 536-545). 
Europe. 
Graepfe, E. Vergleichung der Papilioniden Fauna der Hochalpen mit 
derjenigen des Hohen Nordens. Z. Deutsche Ost-Alpenver., 1880, 
pp. 69-80. 
[Not seen by the Recorder.] 
Lang, H. C. The Butterflies of Europe, illustrated and described. 
London : 1881, roy. 8vo. Parts i.-vi. pp. 1-128, pis. i.-xxxii. 
A serial work, including descriptions and coloured figures of all the 
species pccurring within the geographical limits of Europe, and also of 
their larvae, as far as possible. Most of the allied Palaearctic and even 
Nearctic forms are referred to, and, in most cases, briefly described, thus 
rendering the work one of great completeness. 
Parts 35-46 of W. F. Kirby’s “ European Butterflies and Moths,” and 
Parts 23 (No. 2) and 2 parts, No. 24, of S. L. Mosley’s “ Illustrations of 
European Butterflies,” have appeared within the year. 
British Isles. 
White, F. B. Some Thoughts on the Distribution of the British 
Butterflies. Eut. xiv. pp. 265-277. 
The writer analyzes the present distribution of the species, and en- 
deavours to account for it in accordance with received geological theories. 
Wfiiu, J. J. Further notes on the Macro-Lepidoptera of the Shetland 
Isles. Ent. xiv. pp. 278-281. 
13 species added, raising the list to 38. Notes on the variations observed 
are also given. 
. Notes on iha Lepidopterci of the Outer Hebrides. L. c. pp. 218-223. 
58 species noticed. The fauna bears no resemblance to that of Shet- 
land, and the prevailing colour is grey, especially among the Geometrce^ 
thus assimilating with the gneiss rocks. Two well-marked varieties of 
known species were taken, in addition to a supposed new Eupithecia. 
{Cf. also Meek, Ent. xiv. p. 184.) 
S. L. Mosley has published Parts ix. and x. of his “ Illustrations of 
Varieties of British Lepidoptera" representing varieties of Smerinthus 
tilice^ Arctia mendica, lubricipeda, urcticce^ and menthastriy Vanessa urctica:, 
Folyommatus phlceas, Hesperia malvoe^ sylvanus, comma, and linea. 
Protective colouring of British Butterflies ; J. Innes Rogers & W. C. 
Ley, Nature, xxiii. pp. 435 & 436, 458. 
List of Lepidoptera reared in 1880 ; Machin, Ent. xiv. p. 44. Reared 
from larvae collected in the Essex Marshes ; id. 1. c p. 69. 
Notes on Lepidoptera in 1880 ; Anderson, Ent. xiv. pp. 182-184. 
Scarcity of Lepidoptera in Scotland in 1881 ; Arnold, Sci. Goss. xvii. 
pp. 242 & 242. 
Butterflies of the Perth district (20 species noticed) ; Ellison, 
P. Perthshire Soc. i. pp, 5-7. 
