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nymy, &c., and describing and figuring many new species ; Verb. z.-b. 
Wien, xxvii. pp. 629-700, pis. vhi.-x. 
A. G. Butler publishes a list of the Lepidoptera collected by. J. W. H. 
Trail on the Amazons, from 1873 to 1875, with dates, localities, ahd 
descriptions of new species ; Tr. E. Soc. 1877, pp. 105-156, pi. iii. [274 
species enumerated]. He also publishes a list of 69 Lepidoptera^ chiefly 
butterflies, collected by W. Davis iu Peru, and describes a new genus and 
a few new species ; Ann. N. H. (4) xx. pp. 117-129. 
E. C. Reed has published a monograph of Chilian Butterflies (Una 
Monografia de las Mariposas Chilenas ; 8vo, pp. 93, pis. iii. Santiago de 
Chile : 1877). He describes 66 species, some new, whereas others are indi- 
cated as probable synonyms. 
Notes on the Lepidoptera of Patagonia ; C. Berg, Bull, Mosc. Iii. pp. 
1-22, An. Soc. Argent, iv. pp. 87-102, 199-201. These papers are to a con- 
siderable extent a repetition of each other, and also contain the substance 
of a work on the same subject, by the same author, which the Recorder 
has not seen. 
Papilionida*]. 
Ornithoptera. On the mode of suspension of the pupa ; H. Lucas, Bull. 
Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) vii. pp, Ixxxiii. & Ixxxiv. 0. aruana, Feld., and urvil- 
liana., Gu^r., noticed by Salvin & Godman from Duke of York Island ; 
P. Z. S. 1877, p. 147. O.pegasus, Feld., redescribed, and two varieties of 
the $ figured by J. Kirsch, MT. Mus. Dresd. i. pp. 110-112, pi. v. 
Papilio, W. H. Edwards (Butt. N. Amer. ii.) figures P. asterias, her- 
maphrodite (fig. 1), and var. calvcrlcyi (figs. 2-5), Pap. pi. ii. ; and also 
different varieties of P. turnus, and the black form glaucus {Pap. pis. 
iii.-v.), adding remarks on melanism. P. pMlenor and glaucus ; alleged 
appendages on the eye, E. M. Aaron, Canad. Ent. ix. p. 200 ; supposed to 
be pollen, A. R. Grote, tom. cit. p. 220. P. leodamas, ormenus, euchenor., 
telegonus, &c., from New Guinea, noticed by. J. Kirsch, 1. c. pp. 112 & 
113. P. agamemnon and polydorus., Linn., varr., from Duke of York 
Island, noticed by Salvin & Godman, P. Z. S. 1877, pp. 148 & 149. P. 
archidamas, Boisd., transformations described ; G. F. Mathew, Ent. M. M. 
xiv. pp. 152 & 153. P. xynias^ fig. 48, and mangoura^ figs. 49 & 50, W. C. 
Hewitson, are figured by him. Ex. Butt v. Pap. pi. xv. P. himaculatus, 
Hew., = P. timias^ Gray [misprinted xynias^ teste W. C. H.j, id. 1. c. cor- 
rections. P. arietolochice, var. camorta, from the Nicobars, described by 
F. Moore, P. Z. S. 1877, p. 592. P. hippocosa, Fabr. : P. Mabille doubts 
its being the female of merope^ Cram. ; Bull. Soc. Zool. Fr. 1877, 
pp. 227-229. P. podalirius : on breeding ; “ P. G.,” Pet. Nouv. ii. pp. 98 
& 99. P. xuthus and xuthulus are broods of the same species ; F. M. 
Jonas, Ent. x. p. 97. 
Thais polyxena, W. V,, var. polymnia, from Naples and Euboea, de- 
scribed and figured by P. Milliere, Ic. iii. pp. 438 & 439, pi. cliv. fig. 2. 
T. rumina (doubtless introduced with vegetables) taken in Brighton 
market ; H. Goss, Ent. M. M. xiv. p. 137. 
Parnassius. Observations on the known species and their varieties, 
