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and of the cocoon and perfect moth (pi. 15)^ and describes the 
enemies and casualties to which it is exposed and what appears 
to him to be the best mode of treatment. He is sanguine as to 
the prospects of the profitable introduction of the culture of this 
silkworm into England, and gives full details of the expenses 
attendant on the establishment of an Ailanthery.^^ 
AnthercBa cyntJiia. This species, according to Guerin-Meneville, is becom- 
ing naturalized in France, a brood of 26-30 larva3 having been found feeding 
on Ailanthus-iYaa^ in a garden near Paris, whore the insect had never been 
introduced. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. I860, p. 1. Facts confirmatory of Guerin’s 
view are cited by other entomologists. L. c. p. li. 
Remarks on the culture of Hornby x cynthia by Stevens & Westwood. 
Proc. Ent. Soc. 18G6, p. xxv. 
Alex. Wallace raises the question of the specific distinctness or identity of 
Bomhyx cynthia and ricini. Proc. Ent. Soc. 1866, p. iii. 
New genera : — 
Bharctta, g. n., Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1866, p. 820. Allied to Andraca ; 
body stout, rather long ; head prominent ; palpi hairy, porrect ; antennce pec- 
tinated, recurved; legs stout, hind tibiae with 2 short apical spurs; fore 
wings slightly acuminate. Sp. B. cinnamomeaj sp. n., Moore, 1. c. p. 820, 
pi. 43. fig. 6, Darjeeling. 
GangaridcSy g. n., Moore, 1. c. p. ^21=Apona (Walk.) ex parte. Antennae 
pectinated to near tip ; palpi thick, joint 3 short, ascending ; abdomen long ; 
fore wings long, acuminate, costa arched, apical margin concave, subcostal 
vein with 2 branches. Sp. Apona rosea (Walk.) ; O, dharma, sp. n., Moore, 
I c. p. 821, pi. 43. fig. 7, Bengal. 
Ludia, g. n,, Wallengren, Kongl. Svenska Akad. Ilandl. v. 4. p. 26. An- 
tennae pectinate ; palpi very short, hirsute ; proboscis 0 ; tibiae unarmed an- 
teriorly at insertion of tarsi, posterior with 4 very short calcaria; vnngs 
ample, anterior acute, subfalcate, posterior not tailed. Sp. Saturnia delegor- 
guei (Boisd.). 
Epiphora^ g. n., Wallengren, 1. c, p. 26. Allied to Saturnia ; antennae 
doubly bipectinate ( 8* $ ) ; palpi very shorl:, pendulous, squamose ; proboscis 
0; posterior legs with 2 very short calcaria; wings ample, anterior with 
outer margin somewhat excised, posterior not tailed, cell open ; $ winged. 
Sp. E. scrihonia (WallengT.). 
C/s^a, g.n., Wallengren, c. p. 26. Allied to Saturnia) antennae bipec- 
tinate ( 8 $ ) j palpi very short and pilose, pendulous ; proboscis very short ; 
anterior tibiae with a strong spine at insertion of tarsi, posterior with 2 very 
short calcaria ; wings subrotundate, cell closed, posterior not tailed ; ? winged. 
Sp. Saturnia wallmgrenii (Feld.). 
MarmaroplegmUj g. n., Wallengren, 1. c. p. 29. Antennae (8) straight, 
broadly pectinated to apex ; palpi very short, hirsute, pendulous ; proboscis 
0 ; head immersed in thorax ; claws minute ; wings elongate, subpatulous, 
anterior with 9, posterior with 8 veins. Sp. M. paragauda (Wallengr.). 
Odontocheilopteryx, g. n., Wallengren, 1. c. p. 30. Antennae curved, pec- 
tinated, broadly in 8 ? narrowly in $ , pectination much attenuated towards 
apex ; palpi produced, very pilose, thickened at apex, forming a prominence 
