GENERAL NOTES. 
Tns. 123 
Indian Region, 
F. Moore gives a list of 274 Lcpidoptera (104 Rhopalocera and 170 
Heterocera) occurring in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, with descrip- 
tions and figures of many new species, and a table of geographical dis- 
tribution ; P. Z. S. 1877, pp. 580-632, pis. Iviii.-lx. 
A brief preliminary notice of 280 Lepidopiera (43 new, named but 
not diagnosed), collected by Captain Pinwill in Malacca, with notes on 
their geographical relations; A. G. Butler, J. L. S. xiii. pp. 196 & 
197. 
M. C. Piepers’ paper on the habits of East Indian Lcpidoptera, &c. 
\cf. Zool. Rec. xiii. Ins. p. 145], is translated by W. F. Kirby, Ent. x. 
pp. 266-275. 
P. 0. T. Snellen has published a list of 139 Lcpidoptera Heterocera 
collected by M. O. Piepers in Java, with description and figures of many 
new species and larvae ; Tijdschr. Ent. xx. pp. 1-50, pis. i.-iii. 
P. C. T. Snellen gives a list of the Lcpidoptera collected by Captain 
Korudoriror in Sumatra, especially iii Atchin, and describes and figures 
several new moths ; Tijdschr. Ent. xx. pp. 65-79, pis. v. & vi. 
List of 86 Rhopalocera from the Chekiang and Kiangsu Provinces, 
China ; W. B. Pryer, Ent. M. M. xiv. pp. 52-55. 
A. G. Butler has published a list of 50 Lcpidoptera collected by H. E. 
Hobson in Northern Formosa, including 6 new species ; P. Z. S. 1877, 
pp. 810-816. 
A. G. Butler (Ann. N. H. 4, xix. pp. 92-95) remarks on the following 
known Japanese species of butterflies: — Neptis ludmilla, HeiT. Schaff., 
now to Japan ; Argynnis nerippe, Fold., var., Colias pahvno, Linn., Theda 
japonica,M.uvr.,iB distinct from smaragdina, Hqw.\ Lethe diana, Bntl., 
is quite distinct from marginalis, Motsch., which is probably a Mycalesis, 
and L. whitleyi is distinct from L. viaacki; Pronophila schrencki, M^n., is 
a Lethe ; Argynnis ella, Brem,, = anad.yomene, Feld. ; A. daphnis, Motsch., 
probably = A. nerippe ; A. adippe is not Japanese ; Araschnia hurejana 
is probably distinct from strigosa ; Neope segonax, Hew., from Shanghai, 
is probably distinct from N. muirheadi, and Pararge deidamia, Eversm., 
= menetriesi, $ . 
Australian Region, 
J. Kirsch has published an important paper on the Lcpidoptera of New 
Guinea, collected by Dr. Meyer ; MT. Mbs. Dresd. i. pp. 103-134, 
pis. v.-vii. He enumerates 167 species, many of which are new. The 
introductory remarks on collecting, distribution, &c., by Dr. Meyer will 
be read with interest. The now species and most important notes on 
known species will bo noticed infra. 
The transformations, eggs, &c., of various New Zealand Lcpidoptera nvQ 
described by F. W. Hutton, Tr. N. Z. Inst. ix. pp. 355-358. 
A. G. Butler has published a list of 140 species of Lcpidoptera Hetero- 
cera contained in two collections from New Zealand, with descriptions of 
new genera and species, and many corrections of synonymy ; P. Z. S. 
1877, pp. 379-407, pis. xiii. & xliii. He also (1. c. pp. 466-475) publishes 
