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LEPIDOPTERA. 
F. Moore publishes a list of the Lepido;ptera collected by the late 
K. Swinhoe iu the island of Hainan, and appends a table of their geo- 
graphical distribution ; P. Z. S. 1878, pp. G95-708. 
F. Moore publishes a list of Lepidoiitera from Western Yunnan (Ana- 
tomical and Zoological Researches, comprising an account of the two 
expeditions to Western Yunnan iu 1868 and 1875, by J. Anderson; 
2 vols. 4to, text and plates ; London: 1878, Lexjidoptera^ vol. i. pp. 921-928, 
vol. ii. pi. Ixxxi.). A few known species are redescribed and figured. 
F. Moore publishes a list of the Lejpidojptera collected by Ossian 
Limborg in Upper Tenasserlm, with descriptions of new species ; P. Z. S. 
1878, pp. 821-859, pis. li.-liii. 
On a small collection of Lepido;ptera from Malacca ; 0. Cruger, Verh. 
Ver. Hamb. iii. pp. 29 & 30. 
Godmau, Salvin, & Druce give a list of 33 butterflies and 7 moths 
collected by S. N. Walter in the island of Billiton, near Sumatra ; P. Z. S. 
1878, pp. 637-643. 
G. Semper describes 13 now butterflies from the Philippines ; Verh. 
Ver. Hamb. iii. pp. 106-116. 
Australasia. 
P. C. T. Snellen has published a list of 183 butterflies (some new) col- 
lected by M. C. Piepers in S.W. Celebes ; Tijdschr. Eut. xxi. pp. 1-43, 
pis. i. & ii. 
A. G. Butler publishes a list of 7 Lepidoptera obtained by J. S, Whit- 
mee in the Ellice Islands, the first recorded from the group ; P. Z. S. 
1878, pp. 296-298. 
C. Oberthur publishes a list of 71 Lepidoptera, chiefly butterflies, col- 
lected by O. Beccari at Dorey, New Guinea ; Ann. Mus. Genov, xii. 
pp. 451-470.' 
List of butterflies collected by Dr. Comrie in Eastern New Guinea ; 
Godman & Salvin, P. Z. S. 1878, pp. 643-648. 
Notes on the Lepidoptera of New Ireland (chiefly relating to butter- 
flies, of which 63 species are known) ; W. Macleay, P. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. 
i. pp. 304 & 305. 
A. G. Butler discusses the butterflies of New Zealand, of which he 
describes 18 known species (Tr. N. Z. Inst. x. pp. 263-274, pi. xii.). He 
figures Fyrameis hershawii^ fig. 1, Lyccena phoele^ figs. 2 & 3, Chryso- 
phanus enysi, figs. 4-6, and C. feredayi, figs. 7-9. The table of families 
of butterflies given by Bates in the J ournal of Entomology ” is copied 
into the introductory portion of the paper. 
Africa J 8pc. 
C. Oberthur has published Part 3 of his “ Etudes d’ Entomologie ” 
(pp. 48, pis. i.-iii. & v.), entirely devoted to the Lepidoptera of Eastern 
Africa and Algeria. 
Oriental affinities in the Ethiopian Insect-Fauna (relates to Uhopalo- 
cera) ; W. L. Distant, Nature, xvii. p. 282. * 
Captures of Lepidopitera at Nemours (Algeria) ; Austant, Feuil. Nat. 
viii. pp. 110-112, 120-123. Several interesting species are noticed. 
