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LEPIDOPTERA. 
that to all appearance tlie transformations of forms in the organic world 
are due exclusively to external influences. Some portions of the work 
do not come within the province of the present Recorder ; and the 
above abstract must be taken merely for a sketch of the most important 
questions relating to Lepidoptera discussed in this comprehensive work. 
The author’s criticisms on classification, and remarks on many other 
subjects of great interest and importance, cannot be more than thus 
briefly alluded to here. 
J. W. Slater points out that gaily -coloured caterpillars usually feed 
on poisonous plants, and are probably rejected by birds because they are 
themselves poisonous. Tr. E. Soc. 1877, pp. 205-209 ; cf. also P. E. Soc. 
1877, pp. xi. & xii. 
On the fondness of larvse for water : C. G. Siewers, Rep. E. Soc. Ont. 
1877, pp. 17 & 18 ; Canad. Ent. ix. pp. 127-129. 
On variation in larvae ; A. R. Grote, Canad. Ent. ix, pp. 209 & 210. 
Young larvae (unknown) feeding on haws in October ; A. V. Jones, 
Ent. M. M. xiv. p. 158. 
On the preservation of Lepidopterous larvae by inflation ; C. H. & H. 
M. Golding Bird, Ent. x. pp. 225-234, with woodcuts of apparatus ; cf. 
also G. T. Porritt, Ent. x. pp. 258 & 259. 
The motammphosos of Lepido^dera, and especially the difficulties con- 
iieotod with the pupa, are dlsoussod in relation to Darwinism by E. G. 
Schild, S. E. Z. xxxviii. pp. 87-97. He regards Micropteryx^ and not 
Fsyche, as coming nearest to the Phryganeidee. 
On the mechanical arrangements of pupation ; J. A. Osborne, Nature, 
xvi. pp. 602 & 603. 
The effect of cold on the pupae of Phyciodes tharos, Papilio ajax, and 
Lycmna pseudargiolus. Experiments related by W. H. Edwards, Canad. 
Ent. ix. pp. 203-206, tend to show that cold produces suffusion of 
markings in the perfect insect. 
Notes on pupa-digging ; A. E. Hunter & H. Benson, Ent. x. pp. 259 
& 260. 
Great Britain. 
On collections of British Lepidoptera ; E. Birchall, Ent. M. M. xiii. 
pp. 279 & 280, and N. T. Dobr^e, op. cit. xiv. pp. 41 & 42. 
New and rare British Lepidoptera observed during the years 1874, 
1875, & 1876 ; J. T. Carrington & W. P. Weston, Ent. x. pp. 2-9, 31-35, 
89-92, 117-120. 
Captures in North Wales in Qctober 1876, A. O. Walker, Ent. M. M. 
xiii. p. 211 ; at the Stack Rocks, by 0. G. Barrett, tom. cit. pp. 249-251 ; in 
the Isle of Man in 1877, by E. Birchall, op. cit. xiv. pp. 68 & 69 ; at Dart- 
mouth, by G. F. Matthew, tom. cit. p. 167 ; in the Norfolk Fens, by W. H. 
Tugwell, Ent. x. pp. 16-19 ; and at Witherslack, by J. H. Threlfall & 
j. B. Hodgkinson, tom. cit. pp. 21-25 ; on the South Coast, North Wales, 
Gateshead, Witherslack, and Sherwood Forest, tom. cit. pp. 255-257, near 
Petersfield, Hants, E. K. Robinson, tom. cit. p. 303. 
Notes on Lepidoptera observed in 1876 ; T. Wilson, Ent. M. M. xiii. 
pp. 211 & 212. On collecting Lepidoptera at light; F. D. Wheeler, tom. 
