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[February 1S93. 



lesquels les Malgaches tissent des etoffes 

 remarquable par leur eclat et leur soli- 

 dite." He informs us that the cater- 

 pillars of Bombyx (//ypsoides) Rada- 

 tna, Coq., live after the manner of the 

 common European processionaries, and 

 after having woven in common an enor- 

 mous pouch which is often several feet 

 in length, each forms in its interior an 

 individual coccon, and there undergoes 

 the final transformation. The species 

 described by Coquerel in this paper are 

 Hypsoides Radama, and H. Diego, 

 and Anaphe Panda, Boisd., the latter 

 from Natal, in reference to which Mons. 

 Coquerel remarks that it has the same 

 larval habits as the two Mascarene spe- 

 cies, and that its silk is employed in the 

 same way by the natives of the country 

 in which it is found. Subsequently, in 

 1863, Dr. Coquerel and Mons. A. Vin- 

 son published another paper upon this 

 subject in the Bulletin de la Society 

 d'acclimatation et d'histoire naturelle de 

 la Reunion, and followed it in 1866 by 

 a paper in the Bulletin of the French 

 Society d'acclimatation. The last article 

 by Dr. Coquerel which treats of the 

 subject is contained in the Annales of 

 the Entomological society of France for 

 1866, having been presented at the meet- 

 ing of the Society held in July of that 

 year. This article is accompanied by a 

 plate representing the cocoons and outer 

 cocoon-bag woven by H. Radama. 

 Meanwhile in 1859 Mr. A. W. Scott 

 published in the Proceedings of the 

 Zoological society of London a paper 

 in which he described a moth found in 

 New South Wales, which is referred to 



the Hyponomeutidae, and to which he 

 gave the name Dyphantidium seri- 

 ceariutn. The social habits of the 

 larvae of this insect are remotely related 

 to those of the Mascarene insects de- 

 scribed by Coquerel. The paper of 

 Mr. Scott is accompanied by a plate 

 giving anatomical details of Hyphan- 

 tidium. For seventeen years after the 

 publication of the last paper by Coq- 

 uerel, or from 1S66 to 18S3, nothing 

 appears to have been added to the liter- 

 ature of this interesting subject, though 

 Mr. A. G. Butler in 1S77 and again in 

 1S7S described a species of Anaphe, 

 the former from Ambriz, and the latter 

 from Old Calabar; and in 1S82 erected 

 the genus Hvpsoides for the reception 

 of H. bipars, a new species from Mada- 

 gascar, strictlv congeneric with Bombyx 

 Radama, Coq., and Bombyx Diego, 

 Coq. In 18S3 Carl Fromholz published 

 an article in the Berliner entomolo- 

 gische zeitschrift (Band xxvii, pp. 9 

 et sea.), in which he gives an interesting 

 account of the larval habits of Anaphe 

 panda, Boisd., based upon material 

 which had been presented to the ento- 

 mological museum at Berlin by the 

 German savant and traveller, Dr. 

 Fischer. The paper is accompanied by 

 a plate upon which the larva and the 

 cocoon-bag of A. panda are depicted. 

 According to the information given by 

 Dr. Fischer the natives of the region 

 about sixty miles inland from Dar-es- 

 Salaam, where the cocoons were ob- 

 tained, report that the caterpillars 

 occupy the nest, which they weave as a 

 common home, for two years before 



