130 Ins, 
LEPIDOPTERA. 
America, 
Butler, A. Gr. On the Lepidoptera of the Amazons, collected by J. W. 
H. Traill during the years 1873 to 1875. Part iii. Noctuites. Tr. E. 
Soc. 1879, pp. 19-76. 
145 species are enumerated, 55 of which are new. 
Dewitz, H. Naturgeschichte cubanischer Schmetterlinge, nach Beo- 
bachtungen des Herrn Dr. Guudlach bearbeitet. Z. ges. Naturw. (3) 
iv. pp. 155-174, pi. ii. 
Contains detailed notices, generally with figures, of the earlier stages 
of Danais erippus^ Cram., Heliconia charithonia^ Linn, (pupa, figs. 1 & 
1 a), Papilio polydamas^ Linn, (pupa, figs. 2 & 2 a), P. asterias. Cram., 
Pamphila ethlius, Cram, (larva and pupa, figs. 3 & 3a, 6), Achlyodes 
Jlyas, Cram, (pupa, figs. 4 & 4 a, 6), Anceryx rimosa, Grote (larva, figs. 5 
& 5 a), Hyalurga vinosa^ Drury (pupa, figs. 6 & 6 a), Gonodonta uxoria. 
Cram., figs. 7 & 7 a, Afelanchrcea geometroides, Walk, (larva and pupa, 
figs. 8, 8 a-e), and Conchylodes dlphtheralis, Hiibn. (pupa and cocoon, 
figs. 9, 9 a-c). A list of Cuban Lepidoptera is added, with notes on food 
plants, and occasional short descriptions of the larvae, or observations on 
their habits. 
Mann, B. P. Descriptions of some Larvae of Lepidoptera^ respecting 
BpTiingidce especially. Psyche, ii. pp. 265-272. 
Contains notes from Boisduval’s “ Species General des L^pidopteres 
Hdt^rock’es,” vol. i., and descriptions of or remarks on the larvae of the 
following species by W. V. Andrews : — Arctia habella, Euchcetes egle^ 
Parasa chloris, Limacodes cippus, Datana major, Anieota stigma^ and 
Scolecocampa libatrix. 
Sprague, F. H. Notes on Butterflies of Massachusetts. Psyche, ii. 
pp. 257-260. 
Times of appearance. 
Part viii. of the second series of W. H. Edwards’ “Butterflies of North 
America” has appeared in 1879. 
The portion of Godman & Salvin’s “ Biologia Centrali- Americana ” 
published in 1879 includes 56 pp. of text and 4 pis. on Lepidoptera 
Rhopalocera, extending as far as the genus Hymenitis. They include 
Ituna and Lycorea in Danaina, placing the remaining genera under 
Ithomiina. (Several species referred to as figured on pi. v., not yet pub- 
lished, are mentioned here for the sake of convenience.) Two species 
{Ithomia cadra, pi. ii. fig. 5, and Flymenitis furina, pi. iv, figs. 15 & 16) 
are figured in advance of the text belonging to them. 
The descriptions of Lepidoptera in Kirby’s “ Fauna Boreali- Americana ” 
are reprinted by G. J. S. Bethune, Canad. Ent, xi. pp. 146-154. 
H. A. Hagen criticizes Gerhard’s Catalogue of N. American Lepido- 
ptera, which seems to contain many S. American species included in 
error ; S. E. Z. xl. pp. 475 & 476. 
Scarcity of butterflies in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick in 1878 ; 
C. E. Heustis, Canad. Ent. xi. p. 39. 
