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Clisiocampa americana and sylvatica. LarvsB figured by W. Saunders, 
Can. Ent. iv. p. 134. On destructive swarms of the larva of the latter, cf. 
Bell, Canad. Ent. iv. p. 199. 
Lasiocampa potatoria. Larva hibernates full-fed in Scotland, like that of 
Bombyx rubi : J. Boswell Syme, Scot. Natii. p. 176. i 
Gastropacha crate? ffia.nd qiiercus. Hermaphrodites described by 0. Nickerl, 
Verb. z-b. Wien, xxii. p. 731. 
Bomhyx rubi and quercus. On hibernation of larvae, cf. J. R. S. Clifford 
and G. B. Corbin, Ent. vi. pp. 15, 83, 84. 
B. quercus. Guenee describes and figures an hermaphrodite, Mem. Soc. 
Phys. Geneve, xxi. pp. 418-422, fig. 8. 
On double cocoons in B. mori and Eriogaster lanestris, cf. P. E. Soc. 
1872, p. 5. 
Adelocephalides. Boisduval has published a review of the species of this 
new group, which is closely allied to the Ceratocampides. Ann. E. Belg. xv. 
pp. 79-96. Known species as well as new are described. 
Adelocephala pellucida, Smith, probably = Fhalana virginiensis, Drury. 
Boisduval, Ann. Ent. Belg. xv. p. 87. 
A. senatoria, Smith. Described (with the other known species of the 
genus) and larva figured by Boisduval, Ann. E. Belg. xv. p. 87, pi. 3. fig. 5. 
Vhiala xanthosotna, Wgr. : cf. SneUen, Tijdschr. Ent. (2) vii. p. 47, pi. 4. 
figs. 4-a 
Bomhyx mori. P. Eymard ^ Kapport de la Commission des Soies sur ses 
operations de I'annee, 1868," Ann. Soc. L. Lyon (4), i. pp. 87-119) publishes 
a number of reports and statistics on sericiculture which hardly admit of 
abridgment. 
Pasteur's work on the diseases of the silkworm {cf. Zool. Rec. vii. p. 369) 
is reviewed at length by Kozli, Term. Kozl. 1871, pp. 191-195. 
On a dipterous parasite infesting the silkworm, cf. E. Cornalia, Rend. 1st. 
Lomb. (2) iii. pp. 561 & 562. 
B. mori. On its parthenogenesis, &c., cf Bull. Ent. Ital. iv. pp. 276-278, 
291-298, 302, 303, 384-388. On its most suitable food, cf T. C. Batchelor, 
Tr. N. Y.Inst, iv. pp. 424-427. 
On the progress of sericiculture throughout the world, cf. Guerin-Mene- 
ville, R. Z. xxiii. pp. 27-32, 123-127. 
On sericiculture in Mauritius &c., cf. H. C. Descroizilles, P. R. Soc. Maur. 
(2) vi. pp. 50-56 ; see also pp. 157-163, 177, 178. 
For a detailed paper on sericiculture, with notices and figures of the most 
important of the large silk-producing Bombycidce and Saturniidce (American 
and imported), cf Riley, Rep. Ins. Mo. iv. pp. 72-138. 
New genera and species : — 
Napta, g. n., Guenee, Vinson's ^ Voyage ' &c. Annexe F, p. 43. Allied 
to Lasiocampa. Type N. serratilinea, sp. n., id. I. c. Madagascar. 
Gloveria, g. n., A. S. Packard, Rep. Peab. Ac. iv. p. 89. Allied to Lasio- 
campa (Otus). Type G. arizonensis, sp. n., id. I. c. p. 90, Arizona and New 
Mexico. 
Norasuma, g. n,, Moore, P. Z. S. 1872, p. 575. Allied to Bombyx and 
Theophila. Type N.javanica^ sp. n., id. I, c. p. 576, pi. 33. fig. 6, Java. 
Ceroderes, g. n., Boisd. Ann. E, Belg. xv. p. 81. Intermediate between 
