408 INSECTA, LEPIEOPTERA. 
suprdf p. 360). On rearing silkworms by bis method, see C. R. vol. Ixxi. 
pp. 182-185, 293-298, Atti Soc. Ital. xiii. pp. 24, 25, 745-751, 755-772. 
Girard remarks on various parasites on silkworms. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 
Stances, 1870, pp. 53, 54, 61-63. 
On monads &c. existing in the intestines of unhealthy silkworms, see 
Bordone and Dumas, 0. R. vol. Ixx. pp. 1160-1162. 
A memoir by Tigri attributing pebrine to a species of Bacterium is men- 
tioned in C. R. vol. Ixx. p. 122. 
Bomhyx tnori will eat Osage orange in America. Amer. Ent. ii. pp. 293, 
373. 
Further information on silkworms may be found in almost every periodical 
which has the slightest connexion either with natural history or animal 
products. 
ZEUZERIDiE. 
Cossus ligniperda. T. A. Chapman suggests that the tluid discharged from 
the mouth of the larva of the species is of an oily character. Ent. M. M. 
vii. pp. 18, 19. 
Xyleutes rohinice, Peck. Transformations described and figured, Amer. 
Ent. ii. pp. 127, 128. 
Etidagria psychidion (sp. n., = ulula, var. ?), Staudinger, Hor. Ent. Ross, 
vii. p. 112. 
Hepialidas. 
IlepialuH velleda. Transformations described by W. Buckler, Ent. M. M. 
vii. pp. 84, 85. 
Moschler remarks on his Epialus hyperhoreus and on E. lahradoriensis, 
Packard. He considers that Ilepialus puleher, Grote, is identical with the 
former species. S. E. Z. 1870, pp. 251, 252. 
Noctuidas. 
Berce has published “ Faune Entomologique Fraii 9 aise, Lepidoptferes,” 
vol. Il^t^roceres, 1®*^ partie, containing descriptions of the French 
Noctuidce as far as the genus Mesogona. A few pages of general remarks on 
the family are prefixed to the book. 
A long article on the Cotton Army-worm,” Noctua (^Anomis) aylina, 
Say, is published in Amer. Ent. i. pp. 207-209 j see also p. 342. In the 
same paper the ‘‘Boll-worm” (Ileliothis annigera) and the “true Army- 
worm” {Leucania unipunctata, Tiaw .) are noticed. The three species are 
described and figured in all their stages, and full details are given as to their 
habits and the means employed to destroy them. 
F. Buchanan White records Leucania littoralis and Ileliothis marginata 
as new to Scotland. Ent. M. INI. vi. p. 100. 
Maassen (S. E. Z. 1870, pp. 329-3.33) publishes full directions for collect- 
ing at sugar, and adds a list of nearly 60 species of Noctuce collected by him 
from August 20th to the middle of October, in the neighbourhood of Elber- 
feld. The species are nearly all British [cf. Weymer, ibid. p. 398]. 
G. Norman has noticed Noctua haja and Leucania judlens in cop. at sugar. 
Ent. M. M. vii. p. 88. 
Knaggs suggests that the genus Aventia should follow Toxocampa. Cab. 
List Lep. p. 7. 
