GENERAL NOTES. 
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ductory portion of the book, and are apparently derived from various 
sources ; many of them represent foreign insects, and others represent 
species already figured on the plates. The letterpress to the plates is 
confined to brief notices of the times of appearance and the transforma- 
tions of the species figured. Plates ii.-xlviii. inclusive are taken from 
Berge’s “ Schmetterlingsbuch,” but the colouring is in many cases very 
inferior to that of the original ; pis. xlix. & I. contain a few selected 
species of Micro-Lepidoptera. 
W. F. Kirby has published a Supplement to his Synonymic Catalogue 
of Diurnal Lepidoptera^ comprising additions and corrections from 
March, 1871, to June, 1877, inclusive (London : 1877, 8vo, pp. vi. 
691-883). 
W. F. Kirby has commenced a series of Introductory Papers on Lepi- 
doptera in the “Entomologist.” Those published in 1877 (vol. x.) com- 
prise — “ On the Formation of a Collection of Foreign Lepidoptera'^ 
pp. 108-112 ; “Localities of Lepidoptera^^ pp. 146-151; Nymplialidce \ 
Danainoi^ Satyrincc, Elymniince, and Morphince, pp. 198-201, 220-226, 
241-245, 290-295. 
P. Milli^re has completed the third and last volume of his “ Icono- 
graphie de Chenilles et L^pidopteres in^dits,” by publishing livraisons 
27-32, comprising pp. 171-488, pis. cxvii.-cliv. As these parts have not 
also been published in Ann. Soc. Lyon, they have escaped notice in pre- 
vious Records. 
A great number of short notes on the species figured by P. Milli^re 
will be found at the end of vol. iii. of his “ leones,” pp. 455-467, but 
they are too numerous, short, and technical to be further noticed here. 
S. II. Scuddor has published a paper on the “ Classification of Butter- 
flies,” with special reference to the Equites, or Swallow-tails (Tr, Am. E. 
Soc. vi. pp. 69-80. He admits only four main families : — 
1. The brush-footed butterfiies, or Nymphales {Nymphalidce^ Bates). 
2. The gossamer- winged butterfiies, or Rurales (Erycinidee and 
LyccEnidce, Bates). 
3. The typical butterflies, or Papilionides (Papilionidoe^ Bates). 
4. The skippers, or Urhicolce {Ilesperidce, Bates). 
The characters and affinities of the various families and subfamilies are 
fully discussed, and are illustrated by a phylogenetic diagram. 
The geographical distribution of the RJiopalocera and Sphinges forms 
an important section of A. R. Wallace’s large work on the “Geographical 
Distribution of Animals.” 
Note on migrating butterflies ; W. H. Edwards & S. H. Scudder, Am. 
Nat. xi. pp. 244 & 245. 
Antigeny, or sexual dimorphism in butterflies, is discussed by Scudder, 
P. Am. Ac. (2) iv. pp. 150-158. 
Remarks on melanism in Lepidoptera : S. R. Fetherstonhaugh & W. H. 
Tugwell, Ent. M. M. xiii. pp. 216, 256 & 257 ; by F. B. White & W. A. 
Forbes, op. cit. xiv. pp. 15-17 ; and by N. Cooke and others, Ent. x. 
pp. 126-132, 151-153. 
F. Buchanan White has read a paper on the male genital armature in 
the European Rhopalocera, taking Epinephele hyperanthus as a typical 
