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alone ; those rearing silkworms will obtain the produce of 

 their labour, and those growing mulberries in the same way 

 the produce of theirs. The Book of Rites saith, 'The man 

 who planted 1000 acres in the kingdoms of Chi and Lu with 

 mulberries became lord of 1000 farms,' &c. Why, then, do 

 you fear you will not succeed ? The area of Government 

 land on which mulberries can be grown being limited, trees 

 cannot be given to all ; people will therefore be expected to 

 plant at the corners of walls, between the furrows, at the 

 roadsides, and every other available nook and corner. No 

 ground will be permitted to be wasted. Apparatus for rearing 

 silkworms can he obtained from the committee, according to 

 the number of growers, and can be used by the silkworm 

 proprietors on their finding some respectable person to be 

 security for them ; they will be required to return the same 

 to the committee uninjared within ten days after they have 

 finished with them. The proprietors who procure cocoons, and 

 understand unwinding the silk, can apply to the committee 

 for winding machines (or combs), which must, however, when 

 done with, be returned. The silk can either be sold by the 

 proprietors themselves or be handed over to the committee, 

 who will pay them the market price for it. Those unable to 

 unwind the silk can dispose of their cocoons to the com- 

 mittee, at the marketable value, for ready money ; no bar- 

 tering, by which the proprietors might suffer loss, will be 

 tolerated." 



Does the Female of Sterrha sacraria possess the Costal 

 Stripe ? —In answer to the inquiry of Mr. Pristo (Entom. iii. 

 348), whether the female of S. sacraria possesses the costal 

 stripe, the one whose capture I recorded at page 347 has 

 the costa reddish brown from the base about one-third of its 

 length. The discoidal cell also contains a pink dash, occu- 

 pying about half its length from the veinlets ; there is also a 

 brown dot near the point where the subcostal vein joins or 

 leaves the cell. The transverse band in this specimen is 

 crimson at the inner edge, deepening to brown on the outer 

 or marginal side. — G. Gascoyne ; Newark^ October, 1867. 



Sterrha sacraria in Dorsetshire. — My son Edward took a 

 male specimen here on Saturday last. — J. C. Dale; Glan- 

 villes-Wooton, Dorset, September 3, 1867. — Ent. Mo. Mag. 



Sterrha sacraria at Greatham, Hampshire. — In a list of 



