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INSECTA, LEPIDOPTERA.
BUTLER, A. G. Ou Butterflies recently received by Mr. Swanzy
from West Africa. L. c. pp. 123, 124.
——. Descriptions of some new Diurnal Lepidoptera, chiefly
Hesperiidce. L. c. pp. 485-520.
. On new or recently described species of Diurnal Lepidoptera.
Ent. M. M. vi. pp. 250-252, pi. 1.
. The Genera of Hesperiidce in the Collection of the British
Museum. Ibid. vii. pp. 55-58, 92-99.
. List of Diurnal Lepidoptera collected by Mr. Spaight
in Northern India. P. Z. S. 1870, pp. 724-728.
Contains no new species.
. Note on abnormities in the neuration of the hind
wings in Acrcea andromacha. Ibid. pp. 777, 778.
CURO, A. Delia partenogenesi fra i Lepidotteri. Atti Soc. Ital.
xiii. pp. 27-32.
Parthenogenesis in Lepidoptera may be normal or accidental. Some supposed
cases may have originated in erroneous observations. Further observations
on the subject are very desirable, and might conveniently be made
on the various species of silkworms.
DIETZE, C. Beschreibung der Raupe von Eupithecia irriguata,
Hiibn. S. E. Z. 1870, pp. 336, 337.
DOHRN, C. A. Zusatz zu dem fiber Paraponyx stratiotata aus
dem Treitschke'schen Auszuge Mitgetheilten. S. E. Z.
1870, pp. 223, 224.
DUBOIS. Les Lepidopteres de la Belgique, leurs chenilles et
leurs chrysalides, &c. 8vo, col. plates. Bruxelles.
Noticed R. Z. 1870, p. 151. Part 42 is there stated to have appeared hi
1809.
EDWARDS, W H. The Butterflies of North America, with
coloured drawings and descriptions. Parts V. & VI. Philadelphia
: 4to, Dec. 1869, June 1870.
The appended synopsis extends to the genus Argynnis.
. Notes on Grapta c-aureum and interrogationis, Fab.
Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. iii. pp. 1-9.
. Descriptions of new species of Diurnal Lepidoptera
found within the United States. Ibid. pp. 10-22.
ERSCHOIT, N, & FEILD, Ii. F. Catalogus Lepidopterorum Imperii
Rossici. 8vo. St. Petersburg : 1870, pp. 77.
1866 Macro- and 1314 Microlepidoptera are enumerated. The appendix
contains a few new species with Latin diagnoses, and critical remarks in
Russian on these and various other species.