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INSECTA, LEPIDOPTERA. 
Ent. Ital. iii. pp. 411-413 ; Beitr. z. Parth. der Arthropoden, pp. 230-236. 
On the artificial hatching of its eggs, see E. Duclaux, C. B. Ixxiii. p. 917. 
On variation in Silkworms, see Darwin, “ Variation of Animals and Plants 
under Domestication,’ i. pp. 300-304. 
Girard, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (6) i. pp. 361-3G8, remarks on sericiculture in 
the Bois de Boulogne in 1870. Sericaria mori was much diseased ; Attacus 
yamamai did not produce a single cocoon ; A. cynthia is so far acclimatized 
as to be likely to become valuable, and should be inserted in the French lists 
with Chariclea delphinii and other species now well established in France. 
Guerin Meneville remarks editorially on the papers on sericiculture com- 
municated to the Acad^mie des Sciences in 1870 ; R. Z. (2) xxii. pp. 234 & 
236, 287 & 288, 313-316. 
Notes on sericiculture. Bull. Ent. Ital. iii. pp. Ill & 112, 216 & 216. 
On Beichenbach’s analysis of diseased Silkworms, see Sobrero, Atti Acc. 
Tor. vi. pp. 436-439. 
On the presence of uric acid in the skin of the Silkworm, see G. P. Vlaco- 
vich, Atti 1st. Venet. (4) i. pp. 2276-2284. 
On muscardine and pebrine, see Huxley, Bep. Br. Ass. 1870, pp. Ixxxvi- 
Ixxxix. 
Bellotti publishes observations on pebrine made during the season of 
1870, Atti Soc. Ital. iii. pp. 207-223. 
Zeuzerid^. 
Cossm Ugniperda sometimes spins up underground : G. Norman, Ent. M. M. 
viii. p. 70. 
On rearing C. Ugniperda and Zeuzei'a cesctdi, see J. Bussell, Ent. v. pp. 
466 & 457. 
Zeuzet'a {Eudoxyla) xylotrihus, H.-S. Packard describes a cf from Pebas, 
Bep. Peab. Ac. ii. & iii. p. 86. 
Noctuidas. 
Staudinger, Cat. Lcp. Eur., proposes the names Thaumasta (type ex- 
pressa, Led., p. 79) and Oxytripia (type o? bictdosa, Esp., p. 98) for two uncha- 
racterized genera ; candelarum for (Agrotis) candelisequa, auct., nec Hubn. 
(Vog. u. Schmett.), from Europe, p. 82 ; imperialis for (^Ileliothis) purpurascens^ 
Led., nec Tausch., p. 129, 
Erschoef (Bull. Mosc. xliii. pp. 307-316) publishes the following notes 
on the Noctuidce described by Eversmann : — Caradrina alhuncida and squa- 
lida, Xylma scripturosa, and Iladena aeuminifera are to be referred to Agrotis^ 
A. forjicida and ? lutescens to JDumthcecia, A. khirghisa and Iladena ahrupta 
to Crymodes, II, suhcontigua and furca to Mamestra, II. midticuspis to Aporo- 
phila^ II. felina to Bryophila, Cosmia vulpecula to Leiicaniay Mamestra 
sylvicola to Iladena, Leucania stigmatica and Caradrina distracta to Ncmagria, 
Ophivsa sesquistria to Leucanites, and Herminia rectalis to Simplicia, Gudn. j 
Agrotis repanda {iiec Frey.) and ? detoi'ta — tritici, varr., A. rustica — nigricans, 
A. robusta=.trifurca, var., A. bombycina=-Mamestra leucophcea, S. V. j Cara- 
drina cohcesa — A. xanthographa, S. V., C. grisea and congesta (and menetriesi, 
Kretsch., and cmerr/smis, Tengstr.) ? = cubicularis,\ax£., C. distensa — lcetabilis, 
Zett. ; Iladena actinobola — ? Mamestr a dianihi, H. bombyda—^ Agrotis fa- 
tidica, Hiibn., II. bidens=ileucodon j Orthosia nmrina= Agrotis cinerea, S. V. ; 
