GENERAL NOTES. 
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and pupa). Edwards also {1. c. pp. 1G3-173) publishes notes on various 
Californian Lepidoptera^ with descriptions of various new varieties and 
species. 
Notes on Californian Butterflies ; T. L. Mead, Psyche, ii. pp. 179-184. 
A. S. Packard enumerates the following Lepidoptcra as injurious to 
the cranberry : Oidaria sp., Tortrix vaccinivoranSy sp. n., T. incertanay 
Clem, (larva fig.), and Anchylopera vacciniana. Pack, (figured in all 
states) ; Hayden’s Rep. U. S. Geol. Surv. x. pp. 521-62/5. 
Notes on N. American gall-moths ; D. S. Kellicott, Canad. Ent, x, 
pp. 201-204. 
West Indies, 
H. Dewitz describes and figures details of the transformations of the 
following Cuban Lepidoptera : Danais erippuSy Cram., Heliconia cliari- 
thonia and Papilio polydamas, L., P, ctsterius, Pamphila etfdiuSy and 
Aclilyodes fyas, Cram., Anceryx rimosciy Grote, Ilyalurga vinosa, Drury, 
Gonodonta tixoria. Cram., Melanchrcea geometroides, Walk., and Conchy- 
lodes diphtheralisy Hiibn. A list of the food-plants of many Cuban 
species, by Gundlach, is added ; Z. ges. Naturw. lii. pp. 155-174, pi. ii. ^ 
A. G. Butler publishes a list of 152 Lepidoptera^ collected by B. B. 
Bowrey in Jamaica, and describes a few new species; P. Z. S. 1878, 
pp. 480-495. 
Short notes on the Lepidoptera of Antigua and Martinique ; T. A. 
Marshall, P. E. Soc. 1878, pp. xxxiv. & xxxv. 
South America. 
H. Burmeister has published Vol. v. of his Description Physique do 
la Republique Argentine ” (Buenos Aires : 1878, text 8vo, pp. vi., 524, 
atlas, 4to, pis. 24), containing the first portion of a monograph of the 
Lepidoptera. The first fift;^ pages are entirely devoted to an account of 
the structure, &c., of Lepidoptera in all their stages, the author's obser- 
vations on the scales being of the greatest importance and interest, 
though too long to quote, and not admitting of abridgement. The 
butterflies, SphingeSy and Bomhyces are discussed in the present volume. 
Only the new species, those figured, and corrections of synonymy can 
be here noticed. The following classification is adopted : — 
Diurna or Riiopalocera. — Papilionidoi ; Pieridee ; Danaidce ; Heli- 
coniidee'y Nymphaiidee \Ceihosiid(Cy Argynnidce, AgeroniidcCy VanessidcCy 
Falcipennes {Megaluridccy Mysceliidoi)^ Spatidipennes {EuhagidfCy Cata- 
grammidaiy Byhlidte)y Limenitidaiy ApaturidcCy Morphoides (^MorphoidiCy 
Brassolidee), Lihytheidce] Satyridcc ; Erycinidee ; Lyccenidoe ; Ilesperiidte 
{Pyrgidee, Achlyodidce, Thyinelidce \_Pamphilidce, Telegonidaiy Eudamidee']^ 
Thamyrididce) ; Castniidcc. 
Crepuscularia. — Sphingulm {Eiiryglottkhcy Dilophonotidoiy Deilephi- 
lid(Gy SmerinthidcCy Pterogonidee, PhilampelidiCy Macroglossidai) ; Sesiidw. 
Nocturna. — Bomhycoides] Glaucopidce \ Tlepialidce \ Psy chokies \ Cos- 
sidev'y Pyromorphidcs 'y Liparidee \ LUhosUdcc ] Arctiidee] Bomhycidee \ 
