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INSECTA, LEPIDOPTERA. 
Platypteryx lacertmaria. Tengstrom describes var. dimidiata from Lap- 
land, Fauna et Flora Fenn. Forh. x. p. 302, note. 
Saturniidas. 
Attacus Cynthia. This species, introduced into Australia some years ago, 
has now become a perfect pest. Wallace, Ent. Ann. 1871, p. 100. 
Attacus ethra, Walk. {=A. leheau, Gu^r.). A. Ernst describes the trans- 
formations of this common Venezuelan species, which he thinks may prove 
useful as a silk-producer. Zool. Gart. 1870, pp. 63-65. 
Platysamia cecropia, L. On rearing, Landois, Verh. Ver. Rheinl. 1869, 
pp. 84, 85 j eggs described, Sprague, Amer. Ent. ii. pp. 82, 83 j transforma- 
tions and parasites figured and described, Amer. Ent. ii. pp. 97-102 j on the 
fluid emitted by the insect on emerging from the pupa. Chapman, Ent. M. 
M. vii. pp. 81, 82. 
Attacus \_Telea'] polyphemus figured and described in Amer. Ent. i. pp. 121, 
122 . 
Anthercea yama-mai. W. V. Andrews (Amer. Ent. ii.fpp. 39-42) has pub- 
lished some experiments with this species. Pie finds that eggs placed in an 
ice-house are liable to lose their vitality, and thinks that they require to be 
exposed when near hatching, not to direct sunshine, but to a good degree of 
heat. 
Anther cca yama-mai. A. G. More publishes details of some unsuccessful 
attempts to rear this species in Ireland ; J. R. Dubl. Soc. v. pp. 486-489. 
Gudrin-Mdneville remarks that similar means are used to rear it in Japan to 
those employed in Europe : Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. Seances, 1870, pp. 11, 12. 
Anther cea pemii. A. Wallace makes some observations on the habits of 
this species, and records his having obtained hybrid eggs between A. pernii, S , 
and A. yanuimai, $ . The larva and cocoon most resembled those of the 
former species \ the imago had not yet appeared. Proc. E. Soc. 1870, pp. 
11 , 12 . 
On Anthercea pernii near Shanghai, see Proc. E. Soc. 1870, pp. 21, 36 ) on 
rearing this species in England, see G. Gascoyne, Ent. v. p. 28. 
Saturnia carpini. On assembling in this species see T. W. Wonfor, Ent. v. 
pp. 144-146. 
Attacus \_Saturnia~\ pyri. A sterile dwarf female noticed by Girard, Ann. 
Soc. Ent. Fr. Stances, 1870, pp. 58, 59. 
Ceratocampa regalis figured and described in all its stages, Amer. Ent. i. 
pp. 230, 231, front. 
Saturnia dura, sp. n., Keferstein, Entom. Notiz. p. 15, f. 6, Madagascar. 
Brahnuea stvanzii, sp. n., Butler, Proc. E. Soc. 1870, p. 41, Fantee, W. Africa. 
Bombycidas. 
On the larva of a Bomhyx, which lives under stones in brooks in Guiana, 
see Bar and Oberthm’, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. Seances, 1870, p. 8. 
Phalcena castrensis, Smith & Ahh., = Bombyx frutetorum, Boisd., = ^/ec^}?^ens, 
Walk.; and Phal. ilicifolia, Sm. & Abb., = carpinifolia, Boisd,, = om- 
dentalis [ocm/ewt/s], Walk. : Maassen, Nouv. Ent. no. 20. 
E. IIoldswoutii repeats his former statement that he has bred Q^ona 
punctata, Lasiocampa remota, and Leheda hebes from the same larvte. Proc. 
E. Soc. 1870, pp. 20, 21. [Comp. Zool. Rec. vi. p. 393,] 
