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INSECTA, LEPIDOPTERA.
BOISDUVAL (Pet. Nouv. no. 18) publishes the following identifications of
Bhopalocera described by Godart:—Nymphalis siva=Romaleosoma arcadiiis,
Fabr.; N. francina, Goit.,=Rom. sophron, Doubl. & Hew.; N. iscluiris,
Godt., is an Emesis near orphna ; N. eulimene, Godt.,=Neptisjocaste, Feld.
SCUDDER (P. Bost. Soc. xii. pp. 404-408) has published a list of a collection
of butterflies made in Alaska by Lieut. W. H. Dall. It only contained
13 species.
TRIMEN has published (Tr. E. Soc. Lond. 1870, pp. 341-390) a list of 62
species of butterflies collected by J. H. Bowker in Basuto-land, with numerous
notes on known species, and descriptions of several new ones.
KIRBY has published (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1870, pp. 133-152) a resume" of the
species of Diurnal Lepidoptera described by Linnaeus, in which he points out
several corrections of synonymy.
KIRBY notes the occurrence of 58 species of butterflies, a list of which is
appended, within three miles of the town of Hilden, near Diisseldorf. J. 11.
Dubl. Soc. v. pp. 437, 441, 442.
Several partially gynandromorphous butterflies have been exhibited by
Prof. Westwood at the Entomological Society. Proc. E. Soc. 1870, p. 2.
An article on "Imitative Butterflies" is published in Amer. Ent. i. pp.
189-193, illustrated with woodcuts of Danais archippus and Limenitis disippus.
H. W. PARKER publishes a list of 13 butterflies found in Iowa, in addition
to those previously recorded by Scudder in Tr. Chic. Ac. (comp. Zool. Kec.
vi. p. 343J. Amer. Ent. ii. p. 175.
On rearing butterflies from the egg, see W. H. Edwards, Canad. Ent. ii.
pp. 115, 133, 134, 162-164.
Papilionides.
WALLACE has reprinted the introductory portion of his paper on the
Malayan Papilionidee, in which he reiterates his previously expressed opinion
that this group is the highest among the Lepidoptera, and replies to various
arguments which have been brought against this view.
Ornithoptera priamus. Kirby remarks on the differences between Cramer's
figure and the typical figure of this insect: Tr. E. Soc. 1870, p. 134.
Maassen suggests that O. tithonus may be an accidental aberration of one of
the subspecies of O. priamus : S. E. Z. 1870.
Papilio. Butler (Cat. Lep. Fabr. pp. 234-259) makes the following notes
on various species of this genus:—P. phcenon, Koll., is a local form of P.
vertiimnus, (jr.; P. arbates, Cr., = P. anchises, L.; P. iphidamas,