122 Ins. 
LEPIDOPTERA. 
M. M. xiii. pp. 243-245. In the Upper Engadine ; 0. G. Giebel, Z. ges. 
Naturw. (3) ii. pp. 214 & 215. 
On the Lepidopterous Fauna of the Upper Albula ; P. C. Zeller, 
S. E. Z. xxxviii. pp. 265-322, 427-476. (Hhopalocera to Geometridai 
inclusive). This paper includes a full description of the localities of the 
neighbourhood, and important observations on habits, transformations, 
&c. 
On the Lepidoptera of the Albula Pass, see also H. Frey, MT. schw. 
ent. Ges. iv. pp. 560-556 ; JB. Ges. Graub. xx. pp. 112-160. 
Mann and Rogenhofer have published a list of captures in the Dolo- 
mite district, including a few new species; Verh. z.-b. Wien, xxvii. 
pp. 491-600. 
Italy. 
A. Our6 has continued his Catalogue of the Lepidoptera of Italy ; Bull. 
Ent. Ital. ix. pp. 3-24, 143-165, 252-288 (including the Noctuce and 
Deltoidce)^ and pp. 321-332 (Index). 
Spain, 
Captures at San Ildefonso ; J. M. de Castellarnan y de Lleopart, An, 
Soc. Esp. vi. p. 166. 
List of Lepidoptera taken by T. Seebold at Bilbao, with descriptions 
of new species, &c. ; A. Bossier, S. E. Z. xxxviii. pp. 359-380. 
Africa, 
Notes on various Algerian Lepidoptera ; O. Staudinger, Pet. Nouv. ii. 
p. 190. 
J. Mansel Weale publishes an important paper on the variation of 
■Bhopalocerous forms in South Africa. After noticing the characteristics 
of the regiou, he remarks on the variation, transformations, and especi- 
ally the variation of the pupaa in the following species : Papilio merope^ 
Cram., Acraea esehria, Hew., Junonia pelasgia, archesia, and amestris 
(probably forms of one species), Anthocharis evarne, Klug, and keis- 
hamma^ Trim, (also doubtless varieties), and several other butterflies, 
which are noticed in less detail. Tr. E. Soc. 1877, pp. 265-275. 
Habits of Zanzibar butterflies ; Buxton, Ent. M. M. xiv. pp. 153 & 
154. 
P. Mabille has published a catalogue of the (diurnal) Lepidoptera of 
the West Coast of Africa, chiefly of the Congo, including descriptions of 
a few new species, and prefaced by general remarks on the character of 
the African fauna: Bull. Soc. Zool. Fr. 1876, pp. 194-203, 274-281; 
1877, pp. 214-240. 
Western Asia. 
Additions to the Lepidopterous fauna of Transcaucasia ; H. Lang, 
Hor. Ent. Ross. xii. pp. 153-167. 
H. Christoph publishes a list of captures in North Persia, Krasnovodsk 
in Turcomania, and Daghestan, and describes and figures about sixty new 
species; tom. cit pp. 181-299, pis. v.-viii. 
