THE GENERAL SUBJECT. 
Ins. 155 
Moths attracted by the gleam of falling water; Gardner, Nature, xxv. 
p.436. 
Observations on the comparative anatomy of the male organs of lllio- 
palocera ; Cholodkoffsky, Troudy Ent. Ross. xiii. pp. 3-9, pi. i., and Hor. 
Ent. Ross. xvi. p. xv. 
On the colouring matter and secretions of the silk-spinning Lepido- 
ptera ; Hellins, Ent. M. M. xviii. pp. 260 & 261. 
Impression of Butterflies on paper; McLachlan, P. E. Soc, 1882, p. iii. 
Vanessa io and urticce, and Erebia medea. Position on emerging from 
the pupa ; Pierce & Anderson, Ent. xv. pp. 260 & 261. 
Dead larva with a fungus ( Torrubia ) growing from it ; Flemyng, Ent. 
xv. pp. 91 & 92. 
Trout refusing bright-coloured and hairy caterpillars; Weir, P. E. Soc. 
1882, p. xix. 
Damping pupae of Lepidoptera ; Yaudenbergh, Sci. Goss, xviii. pp. 178, 
179, 202, 203, & 232. 
Setting Lepidoptera ; Sci. Goss, xviii. pp. 141, 142, & 225. 
On the best means of discovering the larvae of Butterflies ; Booch- 
Arkossy, Ent. Nachr. viii. pp. 99 & 100. 
On preserving larvae ; Bull. Soc. L. Nord Fr. v. pp. 179 & 180 ; Ent. 
Nachr. viii. pp. 192 & 193 ; S. E. Z. xliii. pp. 390 & 391. 
Grote criticises the works of Gueuee and Walker on Moths ; Canad. Ent. 
xiv. pp. 46 & 47. He also discusses the laws of nomenclature, with special 
reference to Lepidoptera , and proposes to ignore Eudcemonia Jehovah , 
Streck. ; l. c. pp. 128-130. 
Omissions from and corrections of the Lepidoptera in Scudder’s 
Nomenclator Zoologicus ; id. 1. c. pp. 116-118. 
Butler proposes to place the Gossidce, Psychidce , Hepialidce, and Cast- 
niidee, between the Sphingidce and Zygcenidce ; Tr. E. Soc. 1882, p. 3. 
Europe. 
Kirby, W. F. European Butterflies and Moths, based upon Berge’s 
Schmetterlingsbuch. London : 1882, 4to, pp. xvi., lvi., & 427, pis. 62 
(61 coloured and 1 plain). 
Includes a general introduction, and a full synopsis of all the European 
Macrolcpidoptera , down to the eud of the Geometridce (one example at 
least of every genus being figured, frequently with their transformations). 
A short supplement on Microlepidoptera is added, illustrated by 2 plates. 
Parts vii.-xi. of Langs “Butterflies of Europe” (pp. 97-176, 
pis. xxxiii.-xliii.), and Parts xxv.-xxix. of Mosley’s “Illustrations of 
European Butterflies,” have appeared within the year. 
British Isles and Scandinavia. 
Weir, J. J. Notes on tho Lepidoptera of the Orkney Islands. Ent. xv. 
pp. 1-5. 
Ill species enumerated (exclusive of Tineina ) from the Island of Hoy, 
with remarks on the variation of some of the species. The writer thinks 
that the Faeroe Islands should be treated geographically as belonging to 
Britain. 
