PSYCHE. 



ORGAN OF THE CAMBRIDGE ENTOMOLOGICAL CLU 3 

 EDITED BY B. PICKMAN MANN. 



Vol. I.] Cambridge, Mass., October, 1876. [No. 30. 



Entomology at the Centennial Exhibition. 



As the Centennial Exhibition is intended to display the in- 

 dustrial products of all nations, silk insects and silk in its stages 

 of manufacture form an important part of the entomological 

 representation. 



Of the States of the Union, California makes the finest dis- 

 plays, one of feeding larvas, cocoons and. raw silk, from Joseph 

 Neumann of San Francisco, in the Main Building, and a simi- 

 lar display in the State Building. E. V. Boissiere of Williams- 

 burg, Kansas, exhibits cocoons and silk in the Main Building. 



Undoubtedly the most interesting display of sericiculture is 

 made by Capt. Luis de Rezende, in the Brazilian Department 

 of Machinery Hall ; this comprises eggs, feeding larvaa, cocoons, 

 and silk-reeling apparatus in operation. 



In the East Indian Department of the Main Building are 

 specimens of silk, figures of larva 1 , and imagos of Antheraea 

 paphia [/Saturnia mylitta Fab.], the Tussar silkworm ; of 

 Bombyx mori; of B. croesi, the Nistry silkworm ; of crosses of 

 B. mori and B. croesi with each other, and with B. furtunatus, 

 the Bengal or Dasee species; of B. huttoni, the native Him- 

 alayan species ; and of Attacus ricini [Saturnia arrindia Miln.- 

 Edw.], the Eria silkworm. 



The Zoological and Acclimatization Society of Victoria ex- 

 hibits a case containing cocoons of twenty varieties of Euro- 

 pean, twenty of Oriental, and nine of Australian silkworms, 

 the latter including Saturnia cecropia, S. ailanthus \_S. cynthia 

 Drury], S. yama-mai, S. eria \_S. arrindia Miln.-Edw.], *S r . 



