124 Ins. 
LEPIDOPTERA, 
Lunel, a. Iconographie des Papillons de PEurope centrale, et particu- 
lierement de la Suisse, et des Alpes. Geneve : 1879. 
[Not seen by the Recorder.] Appearing in parts with four coloured 
plates each. 
MiLLitiRE, P. Iconographie et description de Chenilles et Lepidopteres 
inddits. Ann. Soc. L. Lyon, xxv. pp. 1-12, pi. civ. 
Mosciiler, H. B. Die Familien und Gattungen der europaischen Tag- 
falter. Abh. Ges. Gorlitz, xvi. pp. 136-213, 2 pis. 
[Not seen by the Recorder.] 
Mosley, S. L. Illustrations of European Butterflies ; a Series of Hand- 
painted Figures. Parts i.-xii. Huddersfield : 1879, 8vo. 
Issued to subscribers only. 
Parts 11-22 of W. F. Kirby’s “European Butterflies and Moths” 
have appeared during the year. 
British Isles : — 
Moncreiffe, T. The Lepidoptera of Moncreiffe Hill. Scot. Nat. v. 
pp. 24-27, 69-77. 
603 species have been captured in the space of a square mile. For 
further observations of. Moncreiffe & Barrett, 1. c. pp. 115-118. 
White, F. B. The Lepidoptera of Scotland. Scot. Nat. v. pp. 39-44. 
Additions to former papers. 
. The Mountain Lepidoptera of Britain ; their distribution and its 
causes. Scot. Nat. v. pp. 97-105, 149-160. 
The author regards the following British species as strictly alpine ; — 
Erehia epiphron^ Zygcena exulans^ Pachnohia hyperhorea, Anarta niela- 
nopa and cordigerayPnodos coracina. Scapula uligiuosalis, Scoparia alpina 
and gracilalis, Cramhus furcatelluSj Penthina staintoniana and grevillana, 
Swammerdamia nanivora, Zelleria saxifragce, and probably one or two 
species of Nepticula. He then discusses the geographical and climatic 
changes which have taken place in the British Islands during and subse- 
quent to the glacial period, and the manner in which animals and plants 
spread thither from the Continent, with special reference to mountain 
species and their present distribution in Britain. 
S. L. Mosley has continued his “ Illustrations of Varieties of British 
Lepidoptera.'* Parts iii.-v. have appeared within the year, containing 
varieties of Anthocharis cardamines, Colias edusa, Vanessa io, atalanta, 
and cardui, Zygcena trifolii^ jUipendulce^ and lonicerce^ Abraxas grossu- 
lariataaiid ulmata^ Papilio niachaon^ Argynnis paphia^adippe, euphrosyne, 
and selene. 
A. Wilson has published part v. of his “ Larvae of British Lepidoptera** 
concluding the work (pp. 177-367, ci., xvi. pis. xxv.-xl.). Indices, and 
tables of food-plants, and times of appearance in all stages are added. 
