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Provence, and constitute a slight variety wliich he calls viburni. Ann. Soc. 
Ent. Er. M s6r. viii. pp. 403-410. 
Attacus leheau (Guer.) is noticed, and its characters indicated by Laboul- 
bfene. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1868, pp. Ixxiv-lxxv. 
Psychidts. Zeller (Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. in Wien, xviii. pp. 678-680) 
notices the following species as occurring in Oarinthia : — Psyche viciella and 
pulla, and Fu7nea homhycella, and suriens. 
TrouveLot indicates some points of analogy in the life-history of Lima^ 
codes and some Hymenoptera (Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat, Plist. xii. pp. 92-63). 
T. W. Wood (Proc. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1868, p. xxvii) notices the habits of 
some exotic Saturniides, namely, S. cynthia, promethea, cecropia, and poly- 
phemus. He remarks on the presence of a moveable appendage beneath the 
anterior tibiae, which is used as a comb for cleaning the antennae. 
Ebrard notices an instance of the exclusion of a $ Bomhyx quercus having 
the fore wings beneath the hind ones. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1868, p. xc. 
Lasiocampa pini. Milliere has obtained a second brood of this species, and 
gives an account of his rearing them. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1868, p. xci. 
Clisiocampa sylvatica. The habits of the larva, sometimes called the 
“ Army-worm,” noticed by Walsh, Pract. Entom. ii. pp. 112-113. 
Ebrard gives an account of his success in rearing Bomhyx trifolii. Bull. 
Soc. Ent. Fr. 1868, p. xc. 
The larva of Clostera timon (Iliibn.) is described by C. Iven, IToroo Soc. 
Ent. Boss. V. pp. 91-95. Erscholfalso notices this larva, 1. e. pp. 117-118. 
Berce notices the ravages committed by the larvae of Bomhyx dispar 
in the forest of Fontainebleau in 1867 and 1868 (Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1868, 
p. Ixi). Doiid and Goossens refer to damage caused by this insect at Vesinet 
and Bourray. Ibid. p. Ixii. 
B. Bunker records his having bred a specimen of Bomhyx cecropia with 
no antennae. Amer. Natural, ii. p. 381. 
A gynandromorphous specimen of Lasiocampa quercus is noticed by 
Wilson. Proc. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1868, p. xxxviii. 
Guerin-Meneville has combined his ^ Revue de S^riciculture compar^e ’ 
with the ‘ Revue et Magazin de Zoologie,’ the volume of which for 1868 
contains notices on Sericiculture at the following places : — p. 43, on the 
mode of obtaining good eggs of the silkworm (Guer. -Men.) ; pp. 91, 118, and 
164, extracts from the journal of sericicultural travels, by Gudrin-M^neville j 
pp. 267, 313, 444, and 474, letters to M. Ohevreul, by Guerin-Meneville j 
p, 364, on the restoration of sericiculture by local societies, by Guerin-M^ne- 
ville and Robert; p. 411, on the establishment of an Austrian station of ex- 
perimental sericiculture ; p. 414, on the oak-silkworm in 1868, by Guerin- 
Meneville ; p. 446, on probable sources of sound silkworms’ eggs. The 
volume also contains abstracts of the communications on sericiculture made 
to the Academy of Sciences during the past year. 
A. Wallace has published (Ent. Annual, 1869, pp. 94-118) a sketch of 
the recent progress of sericiculture. 
Grote publishes remarks on silk -producing Lepidoptera (Bract. Entom. i. 
pp. 13, 14, 38, 89, 68/ 69). 
Girard notices some specimens illustrative of sericiculture exhibited at 
the Palais de ITndustrie. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1868, pp. Ixxi-lxxiii, Ixxix- 
Ixxxi, Ixxxiii-lxxxv. 
