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descriptions of it and of Thaumantis Howquaand Drusilla Mylaecha, have been pub- 

 lished by myself in our ' Transactions,' vol. i. u. s. p. 173. 



The structure of the pouch-like apparatus attached to the abdomen of the females 

 of the genus Parnassius, has been described by Von Siebold, in Siebold and Kolli- 

 ker's ' Zeitschrift f. w. Zoologie,' Band iii., reprinted in the Stettin ' Zeitung,' p. 176. 



A new European species of Pontia is described by Mayer in the Stettin ' Zeitung,' 

 p. 151. 



The caterpillars of Limenitis Camilla and Sibylla have been described by Mr. De 

 la Chaumette (Zool. 3237), and of the latter by Mr. Hunter (Ibid. 3185). 



A remarkable variety of Cynthia Cardui is described by Mr. Newman, (Zool. 3304). 



A remarkable emigration of Papilio Cardui took place at Turin, on the 26th of 

 April, (Ghiliani, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. ix. p. lv.) 



Sphingid^;. 



Mr. De la Chaumette has published a series of interesting notes on the larvae of 

 the Sphingidae observed in Switzerland, in the 'Zoologist', (pp. 3100, 3158, 3241) ; 

 and also on the habits and transformations of Aglaia Tau, (Tbid. 3063). 



Nocturna. 



A remarkable fact has been communicated to us by Mr. J. C. Bowring, of the oc- 

 currence of a parasite resembling a large Coccus, covered with white cottony matter, 

 which is found upon the dorsal abdominal segments of Fulgora candelaria, and which 

 proves to be the larva of a moth with strongly pectinated antennae, (' Proceedings,' pp. 

 37, 76, 404). 



Two memoirs by M. Bouchardat on the digestive powers and upon the diseases of 

 silk-worms, have been published in the ' Revue Zoologique,' 1851, pp. 34 and 41. 



An extended series of experiments on the muscardine and other diseases of silk- 

 worms, by Messrs. Guerin-Meneville and Eugene Robert, has appeared in the ' An- 

 nates de la Societe Sericole,' tome 13. 



M. Guerin-Meneville has also communicated to the Academie des Sciences, the 

 'Resultats scientifiques et pratiques obtenus de 1847 a 1851, surles maladies des Vers 

 a Soie, et sur les meilleurs moyens de perfectionner leur race ou d'arreter leur degene- 

 rescence.' 



A plan for employing the silk spun by the larva? of the processionary moth (Bom- 

 byx pityocampa), was submitted to the Academie des Sciences by Messrs. Falguiere 

 and Cotelle on the 28th of July, 1851. 



A memoir by Wahlberg, ou the larva? of Psyche graminella, appears in the ' Pro- 

 ceedings of the Royal Academy of Stockholm ' for 1850. 



Dr. Von Siebold's curious observations on the Psychidae and their supposed Par- 

 thenogenesis, published in the ' Proceedings of the Entomological Section of the Na- 

 tural History Society of Silesia' for 1850, and Stettin ' Zeitung' for November, have 

 been translated by Mr. Stainton, (Trans. Ent. Soc.n. s. i. 234). 



Three new genera of Nocturnal Lepidoptera have been established by Mr. Wing, 

 upon species, natives of South Africa, Brazil, and Australia, in the last part of the 

 ' Proceedings of the Zoological Society,' under the names of Caligatus, Trichomoplata 

 and Palparia.* 



* This last name was long ago used by Haworth for a genus of small moths. 



