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I. Notice of a Sackhearing Bombyx, found by Mr. Bates 

 near Santarem, in the Amazons. By Edward Newman, 

 Imp. L. C. Acad. Memb., F.L.S., &c. 



[Read April 3rd, 1854,] 



As a preliminary observation I take the liberty of remarking that 

 in arranging the following notes I have in no instance mingled de- 

 finitions that may possibly belong to different objects. Each de- 

 scription of larva, pupa or imago is made directly from an indivi- 

 dual, and has no reference whatever to any other description 

 published or unpublished. 



The genus Saccophora was proposed by Dr. Harris, the well- 

 known American Entomologist, in a letter addressed to our late 

 inestimable Secretary, Mr. Edward Doubleday, and published by 

 that excellent Lepidopterist in "The Entomologist" for May, 1841; 

 it was founded on a single species, which Dr. Harris then called 

 Saccophora Melshehneri, in honour of Dr. Melsheimer, who was 

 the first to find its cocoon and record observations on its habits. 

 " I propose," says Dr. Harris, " to call the genus Saccophora, and 

 the species Melshehneri." 



Subsequently Dr. Harris, in his admirable Treatise on Insects 

 Injurious to Vegetation, published in 1842, gives the same insect 

 a second generic name, namely, Perophura. " I call it," writes 

 Dr. Harris, " Perophorn Melshc'uneru, Melsheiraer's sackbearer." 

 No allusion whatever is made to the earlier name. The name 

 of Perophora will certainly be adopted in the United States, as 



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