THE GENERAL SUBJECT. 
Ins. 161 
[Staudinger, D.] Beifcrag zur Lepidopteren-Fauna Central- Asiens. 
Fortsetzung und Schluss. S. E. Z. xliii. pp. 35-78. 
Extends from A groiis to Eupitheda. The species noticed are chiefly 
from Lepsa, Saisan, Ala Tau, &c. 
List of Lepidoptcra collected by A. Carpenter at Yedo and Oosima ; 
Butler, Ann. N. H. (5) x. p. 318. 
Second list of diurnal Lcpidoptera inhabiting the Nicobar Islands ; 
Wood-Mason & Do Nic6villo, J. A. S. B. li. pt. 2, pp. 14-20, pi. iii. (71 
species enumerated). 
Capture of Butterflies at Barrackpore ; Rotbney, Ent. M. M. xix. 
pp. 33-36. 
North America. 
Butler, A. G. On the Butterflies collected by Lord Walsingham in 
California ; J. L. S. xvi. pp. 462-474. 
74 species enumerated. 
Edwards, W. H. Notes on certain Butterflies, their habits, &c. Canad. 
Ent. xiv. pp. 21-28 & 49-56. 
Relates to Papilio philcnor (food-plant and oviposition), P. rnachaon 
(unsuccessful attempt at acclimatization), Argynnis diana and cybele 
(freezing the larvae in winter renders them easier to rear afterwards ; 
transportation of eggs and young larvae), Apatura flora (irregularity of 
number of moults in larvae), Papilio ajax (previous observations of 
Edwards summed up on young caterpillars eating their egg-shells), Co- 
lias philodice (albino females). 
. Description of species of Butterflies taken in Arizona by Jacob 
Dali, 1881. Papilio, ii. pp. 19-29. 
60 species enumerated ; the following known species are specially no- 
ticed or redescribed: — Terias gundlachia , Poey, mexicana, Boisd., damaris, 
Feld., Phyciodes picta, Edw., Limenitis Ursula , Fabr., var. arizonensis, L. 
weidemeyeri , Edw., abb. without white band, L. cros , Edw., var. obsoleta , 
Apatura leilia , Edw., and Thecla dytie, Edw. 
Grote, A. R. An illustrated Essay on the Noctuidce of North America ; 
with a colony of Butterflies. London : 1882, 8vo, pp. 85, pis. iv. 
[Cf. Nature, xxvi. pp. 500 & 501.] 
Includes a preface, remarks on the structure and literature of the Noc- 
tuulai , notes on some of Walker’s types, and on 45 of G rote’s species, 
boro figured, and a discussion on tho geographical distribution of QCncis 
semidea , Say. 
. New Check List of American Moths. May, 1882, 8vo, pp. 73. 
Extends as far as tho Tortriddai , tho list of this family being copied 
from Fernald. A few new genera are described, or new names substituted 
for old. 
1882 . [vol. xix.] 
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