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408 INSECTA, LEPIDOPTERA.
supra, p. 369). On rearing silkworms by his method, see C. R. vol. lxxi.
pp. 182-185, 293-298, Atti Soc. Ital. xiii. pp. 24, 25, 745-751, 755-772.
GTRARD remarks on various parasites on silkworms. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr.
Stances, 1870, pp. 53, 54, 61-63.
On monads &c. existing in the intestines of unhealthy silkworms, see
Bordone and Dumas, C. R. vol. lxx. pp. 1160-1162.
A memoir by Tigri attributing pebrine to a species of Bacterium is mentioned
in C. R. vol. lxx. p. 122.
Bombyx mori will eat Osage orange in America. Amer. Ent. ii. pp. 293,
373.
Further information on silkworms may be found in almost every periodical
which has the slightest connexion either with natural history or animal
products.
ZEUZERIDJE.
Cossus ligniperda. T. A. Chapman suggests that the fluid discharged from
the mouth of the larva of the species is of an oily character. Ent. M. M.
vii. pp. 18, 19.
Xyleutes robinia, Peck. Transformations described and figured, Amer.
Ent. ii. pp. 127, 128.
Eudagria psyehidion (sp. n., = ulula, var. ?), Staudinger, Hor. Ent. Boss.
vii. p. 112.
HEPIALIDJE.
Hepialus velleda. Transformations described by W. Buckler, Ent. M. M.
vii. pp. 84, 85.
MOSCHLER remarks on his Epialus hyperboreus and on E. labradoriensis,
Packard. He considers that Hepialus pulcher, Grote, is identical with the
former species. S. E. Z. 1870, pp. 251, 252.
NOCTUIDJE.
BERCE has published " Faune Entomologique Francaise, Lepidopteres,''
3 me vol. Het(5roceres, l er partie, containing descriptions of the French
Noctuiclcc as far as the genus Mesogona. A few pages of general remarks on
the family are prefixed to the book.
A long article on the " Cotton Army-worm," Noctua (Anomis) xylina,
Say, is published in Amer. Ent. i. pp. 207-209; see also p. 342. In the
same paper the " Boll- worm" (Heliothis armiyera) and the "true Armyworm
" (Leucania unipunctata, Haw.) are noticed. The three species are
described and figured in all their stages, and full details are given as to their
habits and the means employed to destroy them.
F. BUCHANAN WHITE records Leucania littoralis and Heliothis marginata
as new to Scotland. Ent. M. M. vi. p. 190.
MAASSEN (S. E. Z. 1870, pp. 329-333) publishes full directions for collecting
at sugar, and adds a list of nearly 60 species of Noctua collected by him
from August 20th to tho middle of October, in the neighbourhood of Elberfeld.
The species are nearly all British [cf. Weymer, ibid. p. 398].
G. NORMAN has noticed Noctua baja and Leucania pallens in cop. at sugar.
Ent. M. M.-vii. p. 8*.
RNAGGS suggests that the genus Aventia should follow Toxocampa. Cab.
List Lep. p. 7.