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LEPIDOPTERA. 
a list of 50 species of Lepidoptera contained in a collection received from 
Cape York and the south-east coast of New Guinea, and describes 9 species 
as new. 
A. G. Butler enumerates 36 Lepidoptera collected by T. J. Whitmee at 
Lifu (Loyalty Group), and describes some new species; Ann. N. H. (4) 
XX. pp. 348-359. 
On a collection of Lepidoptera made by the Bev. G. Brown on Duke of 
York Island and its neighbourhood ; Salvin & Godman, P. Z. S. 1877, 
pp. 139-151, pis. xxii. & xxiii. 40 Rhopalocera^ 14 Heterocera^ many 
new. 
List of 17 Lepidoptera (some new) captured by T. Blackburn in the 
Hawaiian Islands ; A. G. Butler, Ent. M. M. xiv. pp. 47-50. 
North America, 
W. H. Edwards has published a catalogue of the Lepidoptera of America 
north of Mexico ; pt. i., Diurnals, 8vo, pp. 68, Philadelphia, 1877 (Tr. Am. 
E. Soc. vi. pp. 1-68). He admits 506 species; the numerous corrections of 
synonymy cannot be here specified. 
The butterfly fauna of Eastern North America .compared with that of 
Europe, exclusive of the Mediterranean Region ; S. H. Scudder, P. Am. 
Ass. XXV. pp. 208-273. He points out thoir rosemblancos and dilforencos, 
and concludes that tho former exhibits a prepouderatiugly southern 
origin. 
The following destructive North American Lepidoptera are noticed and 
figured in various stages by B. Gott, Rep. E. Soc. Ont. pp. 41-46 : Clisio- 
campa americana, JEgeria tipuliforinis, Pempelia grossularice, Carpocapsa 
pomonella^ and Arctia isahella. 
List of a collection of Canadian moths labelled by F. Walker, with 
notes on the identification of the species ; A. R. Grote, Oanad. Ent. ix. 
pp. 27-29. 
Captures near Lake Erie ; id, I, c, p. 120. 
List of Bomhyces occurring on the Island of Montreal ; F. B. Caulfield 
& C. W. Pearson, tom. cit. pp. 90-92. 
List of Lepidoptera {Rhopalocera to Notodontidie) occurring at Center, 
N. Y. ; J. S. Bailey, tom. cit. pp. 115-119. 
H. Edwards publishes notes on various Californian Lepidoptera^ with 
descriptions of a few new species and varieties ; P. Cal. Ac. vi. 
West Indies. 
A list of the Lepidoptera collected in Porto Rico by Consul Krug, 
including observations, and descriptions of a few new species, is published 
by H. Dewitz, S. E. Z. xxxviii. pp. 233-245, pi. i. (Butterflies), and MT. 
Miinch. ent. Ver. i. pp. 91-96 (Moths). 
South America. 
H. B. Moschler has published a second series of observations on the 
Lepidoptera of Surinam, in which he discusses the Sesiidee, Syntomidee^ and 
Bombyces generally, noticing generic characters, and corrections of syno- 
