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LEPIDOPTERA. 
Bombycidac. 
THchiura cratcegi, Pcecilocampa populi, and Diloha cwruleocephala. On 
the construction of their cocoons ; Pet. Nouv. vii. p. 487. 
Bombyx ruhi. Instructions for rearing; W. Buckler, Ent. M. M. xi. 
pp. 188 & 189. 
Opsirrhina flexicosta^ $ , Feld., = ? 0. decorata, Walk. ; R. H. Stretch, 
Cist. Ent. ii. p. 14. 
Kleber, E. Duseigneur. Le cocon de Soie. Histoire de ses transforma- 
tions, description des races civilisees et rustiques, production et dis- 
tribution gdographique, maladies des vers a soie, physiologie de cocon, 
et du fil de soie. 2“^® edition. Paris : 1875. 
Not seen by the Recorder. Appears from a notice in Nature, xi. pp. 
206 & 207, to be a valuable monograph. 
Bombyx mori. On its acclimatization ; G. Semper, Abh. Ver. Hamb. 
1871-74, pp. 90 & 91. 
Bvahmma ledereri, Rog. Transformations described ; A. Rogenhofer, 
Verb. z.-b. Wien, xxv. p. 801. 
Dryocampa pallida (= D. ruhicunda, var. alba, Grote), G. J. Bowles, 
Canad. Ent. vii. p. 108, Quebec, Kansas [should not the name alba be 
adopted ?], sp. n. 
Zeuzerid^. 
Cossus ligniperda. On the instinct of the larva in providing an exit 
for the moth : it will destroy ash, a tree formerly supposed to be ex- 
empt from its attacks; A. Dutreux, Publ. Inst. Luxemb. xv. pp. 218 & 
219. Notes on its transformations; Pet. Nouv. vii. pp. 491 & 492. 
Hypopta ccestrum^ Hiibn. ; P. Milliere, Pet. Nouv. vii. p. 523. 
Cossus incanescens, sp. n., A. G. Butler, Ann. N. H. (4) xvi. p. 402, 
Natal. 
Hepialidjj. 
Ilepialus lupnlinus. Larva noticed ; P. Mabille & T. Goossens, Bull. 
Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) v. p. ccxiii. 
Gorgopis ^-guttatus^ Grote, is probably a var. of the variable argenteo- 
maculatus, Harr. ; H. Strecker, Lepidoptera, pp. 105 & 106. G. libania^ 
of Walker, is probably distinct from that of Cramer; A. G. Butler, 
Ann. N. H. (4) xvi. p. 402. 
JPiehis hydrographiis, Feld., == P. labyrinthicus, Walk. ; R. H. Stretch, 
Cist. Ent. ii. p. 13. 
Hepialus thule, p. 105, pi. xii. fig. 6, Montreal, and desolatus, p. 107, 
Owen’s Lake, Nevada, H. Strecker, Lepidoptera ; JFI. matJmoi, II. 
Edwards, P. Cal. Ac. v. p. 265, Vancouver’s Island ; spp. nu. 
Noctuip^. 
A Speyer discusses the relationship existing between the European 
and American Noctucn and Deltoidce. 49 pairs of identical or represeuta- 
