a 
English publication, is accompanied by a colored drawing 
314 THE CYNTHIA SILK-WORM. 
ature at which to apply it. Pearlash is the best solvent] — 
have yet found, but it is not, as I apply it, satisfactory. In — 
fact a practical silk-reeler is required to decide this point. — 
Mr. Grote, in quoting Kirby, who quotes Drury, expresses — 
a doubt as to whether the Cynthia is really meant by the 
latter; and from all that I can learn the castor-oil feeder is : 
certainly a different species. 
Mr. Grote, in a subsequent paper in the * Practical Ento- | 
mologist,” says that the Oynthia is the Yama-mai of Japan, l 
and that in that country it is an oak feeder; but surely this 
is a mistake of the Dutch author, from whom Mr. Grote 
transcribes. I have not reared Yama-mai, but I have some 
of its eggs, sent me by Dr. Wallace, of England, and they 
are nothing like the eggs of Cynthia. They are much large? 
and altogether of a different color. ae 
To make confusion worse confounded, the very capital 
description of Cynthia, given by M. Tegetmeir in a iar 
the insect, as much unlike that moth as the artist could pas 
scientiously make it. So when we have the deseriptot 
right, the illustration is wrong; and vice versa, when the 
illustration is good, the description is bad. However, p 
have fixed on our moth. Tt is, as I said before, the Saturna 
Cynthia of Duncan, Farther description I need not pe 
except to assure ladies who have so far got over their horror 
of “bugs” as to rear butterflies and moths, that ye its 
find the extreme beauty, both of the Cynthia and 0 i 
caterpillar, a full recompense for any little trouble they ™ d 
take in raising them. -rui 
I will now condense from a little entomological J? 
kept by me (I make no pretensions to being a ento ee 
gist), some remarks, haying practical application to the ie 
ject before us; and which, I hope, may be of woe 
those who wish to assist in acclimatizing this beautiful l 
with a view to its ultimate culture as a silk-produce of 
The eggs, which I obtained from Mr. Jobu Akbursh 

