THE GENERAL SUBJB3CT. 
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Russia. 
Staudinger, O* Ueber Lepidopteren des sudostlichen europaischea 
Russlands. S. E. Z. xl. pp. 315-328. 
Several new species described. 
Additions to the list of Livonian Lepidoptera : F. Sintenis, &c., SB. 
Ges. Dorp. v. pp. 5-9, 32 & 33. 
Additions to the Lepidopterous Fauna of St. Petersburg ; W. v. Hede- 
mann, Hor. Ent. Ross. xv. p. 139. 
S. Alpheraki continues his notes on the Lepidoptera of Taganrog ; 
Troudy Ent. Ross. xi. pp. 45-50. A new Nephopterijx is described. 
Asia. 
Asiatic Society of Bengal. Descriptions of liew Indian Lepido- 
pterous Insects, from the Collection of the late W. S. Atkinson ; 
Rhopalocera by W. C. Hewitson, and Heterocera by F. Moore. With 
introductory notice by A. Grote. Calcutta : 1879, 4to, part i. pp. xi. 
& 88, pis. i.-iii. {Rhopalocera to Hepialidce). 
The descriptions of new species already published from the collection 
are here reprinted ; but the Recorder has not referred to these where no 
figures or fresh information is given. 
Boiiatscii, O. Nachtrag zur Lepidopteren-Fauna Syriens. Verb. z.-b. 
Wien, xxix. pp. 405-410. 
Supplementary to Lederer’s papers. 14 moths are specially noticed, 
some new. 
Butler, A. G. Descriptions of new species of Lepidoptera from Japan. 
Ann. N. H. (5) iv. pp. 349-374, 437-457. 
In addition to new species and varieties, many known European and 
other species are here recorded from J apan for the first time. 
. On a Collection of Lepidoptera from Cachar, N.E. India. Tr. E. 
Soc. 1879, pp. 1-8. 
84 species are enumerated, collected by W. Grant in the immediate 
vicinity of his bungalow, on the Burtell Tea Estate, Cachar. 8 new 
species are described, and the local variations of others remarked on. 
. The Butterflies of Malacca. Tr. L. S. (2) i. pp. 533-568, pis. 
Ixviii. & Ixix. 
258 species are enumerated, many new. A table of their geographical 
distribution is appended, and a few Moths are also described. 
Moore, F. Scientific Results of the Second Yarkand Mission, based 
upon the Collections and Notes of the late F. Stolicza : Lepidoptera. 
Calcutta : 1879, roy. 4to, pp. 18, 1 col. pi. 
Published by the Government of India. 
Obertiiur, C. Diagnoses d’especes nouvelles de Lepidopteres de Tile 
Askold. Rennes : 1879, 8vo, pp. 16. 
