122 Ins. 
LEPIDOPTERA. 
BY 
W. P. Kirby, M.E.S., &c. 
General Notes. 
Bobretzky, N. Ueber die Bildung des Blastoderms und der Keim- 
bliitter bei den Insecten. Z. wiss. Zool. xxxi. pp. 195-214, pi. xiv. 
Describes the gradual development of the egg in Pieris cratcegi and 
Porthesia chrysorrhiea, with occasional references to the eggs of other 
insects and Crustacea. 
Brandt, E. [Vide Pieridce, and Insecta (General Subject).] 
Breitenbacii, W. Zur Systematik der Lepidopteren. Zool. Anz. ii. 
pp. 427 & 428. 
Contains remarks on the possible use of the structure of the proboscis 
as an aid to classification. 
Browne, M. Collecting Butterflies and Moths, being directions for 
capturing, killing, and preserving Lepidoptera and their larvae. 
Illustrated. Reprinted with additions from “ Practical Taxidermy,^’ 
London ; 1879, 8vo, p. 60. 
Butler, A. G. Illustrations of Typical Specimens of Lepidoptera 
Heterocera in the collection of the British Museum. Part iii. 
London : 1879, 4to, pp. xviii.-82, pis. xli.-lx. 
This part, like the last, is devoted entirely to Japanese and allied 
Chinese species. 
Hoppper, C. Exotische Schmetterlinge. S. E. Z. xl. pp. 47-95, 
413-454. 
A series of posthumous notes. The supposed new species were all 
previously described in S. E. Z. 1874 {cf. G. Weymer, op. cit. xl. pp. 209 
& 210 . 
Kirby, W. F. Catalogue of the Collection of Diurnal Lepidoptera 
formed by the late William Chapman Hewitson, of Oatlands, 
Walton-on-Thames, and bequeathed by him to the British Museum. 
Published under the direction and by the authority of the executors 
of the will of Mr. Hewitson. Loudon : 1879, 4to, pp.iv.-246. 
