No. 3.] Miscellaneous ^sotesfrom the Entomological Section. 13a 



The above re pif seats the male moth, also pait ol' a leaf with pierced 

 cocoon, both natural size^ o£ the wild silk moth Arislkala si/dima, Moore. 

 This insect is referred to in these Notes, volume II, page 89. It has since 

 been forwarded to the Museum from Cacbar, where it was found attached 

 to the leaves of the peepul tree [Fictis religiosa). The cocoon is glistening- 

 white in colour, in shape and structure not unlike the cocoon of a poly- 

 voltine mulberry silk worm^ and containing* a good deal of remarkably 

 ^ine silk. 



The above represents the Noctuid Leucaniae.t.lranea^ Guen , in vaiious 



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