LEPIDOPTERA. 477 
libera et ibi areolam accessoriam formans. Calcaria pedum pos- 
tieorum 2. Oeelli desunt. 
Wallengren proposes to establish a family next to the 
Notodontides y under the name of Hexaneuridce [I. c. p. 50), for 
the reeeption of a new genus (^Hexaneurd) and some others not 
charaeterized. He also proposes to refer to it his genus Malloto- 
desma. The charaeters of the so-ealled family are as follows : — 
Cellula diseoidalis alarum omnium simplex, indivisa. Costa 
independens alarum antiearum ad angulum posteriorem eellulse 
quam ad angulum ejus anteriorem propius aeeedens. Costa 
prima alarum postiearum marginem anteriorem cellulse totum 
formans et ex angulo hujus anteriore oriens. Ocelli desunt. 
Areola auxiliaris alarum antiearum deest. Calcaria pedum pos- 
ticarum plerumque 2. 
Grote publishes (Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. v. pp. 227-255) some 
notes on the Bombycidcs of Cuba, treating that family in a wido 
sense, as including the Lithosiid(E and ArctiidcE, as well as the 
true Bombycidae. The species are neither numerous nor stri- 
king; and several subfamilies, such as the Ceratocamjndes , At- 
taciy Platypterygides , and Cochlidia, are entirely unrepresented. 
The Arctiidas are most numerous, but the genus Arctia itself is 
wanting. Spilosotiia jussicea differs very slightly from S. vir- 
ginica (/. c. p. 238) ; Utetheisa bella, ornatrixy and speciosa are 
regarded by Grote as forms of one species (/. c. p. 234), and 
this is the only species identical with a North American form. 
Tlie other genera chiefly indicate tropical affinities. 
Nowinan (Ikitomologist, iii.) describes the larvro of Notodonta trepida (/. c. 
pp. 17-18), I)icr(jmura furcula Q.c. pp. 97-98), D. hifida {1. c. pp. 98-99), and 
Bomhyx rubi (/. c. pp. 93-94), and the life-liistory of Trichiura cratcugi (1. c, 
pp. 48-49) and Orgyia pudihmida (7. c. pp. 177-179). " 
Bombycides. 
Bomhyx callunce (Palm.) is identical with B, quercus (Linn.), and B. querms 
of Stephens &c. is distinct from the Linnsean species, according to Newman, 
who proposes for the latter the name of B. familiaris. Entomologist, iii. 
p. 27. 
H. Laver has found that the fluid on the head of a newly emerged Bom- 
hyx qnerem gave an alkaline reaction with litmus-paper. He suggests that 
an alkaline fluid may facilitate the escape of the insect from its cocoon. 
Ent. M. Mag. iii. p. 96. 
Cncthocampa solitaria (Frey). The habits of the larva of this species are 
indicated by Lederer, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. ix. p. 62. 
H. Vaughan mentions 2 double cocoons of Erioy aster lanestris. Ent. M. 
Mag. ii. p. 209. 
Guerin^s Revue de Sericiculture Comparee has been con- 
tinued during the year 1866. 
Pascoe calls attention to an account given by Consul Meadows, published 
in the ‘ Times,’ of a Chinese Silkworm, the pupa of which is eaten. Proc. 
Ent. Soc. 1866, p. xxv. 
