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LEPIDOPTEEA. 
Bomhijx quercus and Saturnia pernii. On the larvse drinking ; Lebee 
& Deyrolle, Pet. Nouv. ,1873, p. 325. 
Bomhyx ruhi. On Botrytis, &c., in the larva ; Fallou, Girard, & Cornu, 
Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) iii. pp. cxxx. & cxxxi. 
Bombi/x processionea in Kent [?] ; T. Batchelor, Ent. vi. p. 487. 
Bomhyx castrensis, var. or sp. n. from N. Persia ; H. Christoph, Hor. 
Ent. Ross. X. p. 36. 
Dryocainp)a {Anisota) ruhicunda., Fab., described and figured in all 
stages by Riley, Rep. Ins. Mo. v. pp. 137-141. 
Palustra, g. n., Bar, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) iii. p. 300 ; type. P. lahoiil- 
beni, id. c. p. 301, pi. viii. ISTo. 2, figs. 1-8. Allied to Bomhyx, but 
aquatic habits of larva very interesting. Habits described by Bar, and 
anatomy by Laboulbene, I. c. pp. 297-306 ; cf. also Groossens, I. c. Bull, 
pp. xii. & xiii., and Guenee, op. cit. Ann. pp. 542-544 (apparently dis- 
crediting the accuracy of the statements made by Bar). 
Brahmcea japonica, A. G. Butler, Ent. M. M. x. p. 56, Japan; 
B. ledereri, Rogenhofer, Verb. z.-b. Wien, xxiii. p. 574, Cilicia (its trans- 
formations prove the genus to belong to the Boinhycidos) : spp. nn. 
Bomhyx intermedia (probably sp. n., allied to B. dorycnii), Milliere, 
Cat. p. 57, note, Nice, Lyon. 
Pcecilocampa suhlineata, sp. n., Walker, Tr. N. H. Soc. Glasg. i. p. 342, 
Congo. 
Sericicultiire. 
Guerin-Meneville publishes a review of the state of Sericiculture in 
1873, and remarks on the gradual decline of silkworm disease ; pebrine 
is now being succeeded by diarrhoea (flaquerie) : C. R. Ixxvi. pp. 1609- 
1612. On the latter complaint, cf. Girard, Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) iii. 
pp. cxliii. cxliv. cxlix. & clxxiii. It is much affected by the weather ; 
J. Raulin, C. R. Ixxvi. pp. 471-473. 
Pasteur, op. cit. pp. 461-463, reviews Cornalia's report on Sericiculture 
in Italy in 1872, and considers it to prove the success of his method. 
. Guerin-Meneville disputes the value of Pasteur's method of contending 
with the silkworm disease, and is replied to by Guisquet ; op. cit. pp. 455- 
457, 783-785. He also quotes Duseigneur Kleber's Monographic du 
cocon de soie," a recently published work not seen by the Recorder. 
On a new method of reeling cocoons from which the moths have 
emerged ; Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) iii. pp. xxii.-xxv. ; Pet. Nouv. 1873, 
pp. 284 & 285. 
On the specimens of silk and cocoons in the Indian Department of the 
Vienna Exhibition of 1873 ; J. Forbes Watson, Class and Descriptive 
Catalogue of the Ind. Dept. pp. 77-79. 
Bomhyx mori successfully reared at St. Petersburg ; W. Iversen, C. R. 
Ixxvii. p. 900. 
On its fecundation and parthenogenesis ; E. CornaUa & C. v. Siebold, 
Bull. Ent. Ital. v. pp. 58, 271-273. 
Aiithcnra yama-mai. On rearing in France ; Pet. Nouv. 1873, p. 298. 
On disease in its larvae ; C. Bureau, op. cit. p. 312. On its too early 
hatching in France ; Ciirard, Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) iii. pp. cc. & cci. On 
