168 Ins, 
LEPIDOPTEEA. 
Nord- America ” (Leipzig : 1878, 8vo, pp. xvi., 196) will be found a useful 
check-list, but contains nothing new. 
H. B. Moschler gives a summary of W. H. Edwards’ last Catalogue of 
North American Butterflies, and adds some remarks on the relations of 
the European and N. American fauna) ; S. E. Z. xxxix. pp. 227-310. 
W. H. Edwards has published part vii. of the second series of his 
“ Butterflies of North America.” 
H. Strecker has published “ Butterflies and Moths of North America, 
with full instructions for Collecting, Breeding, Preparing, Classifying, 
Packing for Shipment, &c. ; a complete Synonymic Catalogue of Macro- 
Lepidoptera^ with a full Bibliography, to which is added a Glossary of 
Terms and descriptive List of Localities.” Part 1, Diurnes. Reading, 
Pennsylvania : 1878, 8vo, pp. 283. A very complete and useful work, the 
nature of which is sufficiently explained by the title-page. It contains 
useful notes on many known species, and descriptions of a few new ones ; 
also woodcuts of apparatus and neuration. 
Parts xiv. & xv. of H. Strecker’s “ Lepidoptera : Ithopalocercs and 
IleterocereSy^’ were published in 1878. Tlie following is the synonymy of 
some species described as new in No. xiv. : Satyrus ashtaroth = dionisus, 
Scudd. ; Melitcca iinitata and larunda = idrica and dymas^ Edw., respec- 
tively ; Pamphila similis = Amllyscirtes nysa, Edw. ; Chavis guadeloupe 
= ausiralis, Edw. : Canad. Ent. x. p. 79. 
H. Strecker “ Lepidoptera,^^ publishes lists of species received from 
Arizona (p. 130), and from the west of Hudson’s Bay Territory, pp. 
132-134. 
C. Bury publishes a catalogue of the Lepidoptera observed in the 
neighbourhood of Cincinnati, Ohio {Macro- Lepidoptera) ; J. Cinn. Soc. 
N. II. i. pp. 12-23. 475 species enumerated, inclusive of Fyrulidtc. 
Captures in Colorado by P. R. Uhler, and descriptions and notes by 
A. R. Grote ; Bull. U. S. Geol. 8urv. iii. pp. 765-770, 797-801. 
Captures in South-Western Colorado and New Mexico in 1877 ; H. 
Strecker, Ann. Rep. Chief of Engineers for 1878, App. SS, pp. 1847- 
1864, pis. i & ii. 
A. R. Grote’s paper on Noctuce collected by A. S. Packard in Colorado 
{cf. Zool. Rec. xiii. Ins. p. 174) was published in Bull. U. S. Geol. Surv. iii. 
[1877], pp. 115-120 ; and not in ii. [1876], as erroneously stated in Zool. 
Rec. xiii. 
W. H. Edwards publishes notes on 22 butterflies (one new), collected 
by E. Coues in Montana during 1874 ; op. cit. iv. pp. 513-517. 
S. H. Scudder has published a notiqe of 41 butterflies, collected by 
E. Palmer in Southern Utah and Northern Arizona in 1877 ; op. cit. iv. 
pp. 253-258. 
H. Edwards (P. Cal. Ac. vii. pp. 19-24) describes the early stages of 
the following Californian Lepidoptera : Fapilio philenor (pupa), Lime- 
nitis californica (larva and pupa), Lycccna antcegon (larva), Dilephila 
daucus (larva and pupa), Smerinthus ophthcdmicus (egg and larva), Ilale- 
sidotcc edwardd (egg), Spilosoma vestal is (egg and larva), Fseudohazis 
eglanterina (egg and larva), Uemileuca nevadensis (larva), Acronycta 
lepuscidina (larva), Drasteria erectho (egg), and Cidaria ^-punctata (larva 
