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identical with Dryocampa bicohr, and as belonging to the genus Adelocephala 
(Boisd.). Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. yol. iii. p. 538. 
Phalcena neustria (Abbot & Smith) = Clisiocampa sylvatica (Harr.) is identi- 
cal with Malacosoma disstria (Hiibn.). It stands therefore as Clisiocampa 
disstria. Grote, 1. c. p. 637. 
Grote also has notes (1. c. pp. 538, 539) upon Notodonta hasistriens (Walk.), 
N. stragida (Grote), and Heterocampa subalbicans (Grote), chiefly relating to 
their geographical distribution in the United States. 
Notodonta basistriens (Walk.) is figured by Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil, 
yol. iii. pi. 1. fig. 1. 
Reakirt states that his species Limacodes viridus and L. lorqidni belong to 
the genus Parasa (Moore), and that the supposed male of the latter is really 
the female of a distinct species, for which he proposes the name of Parasa 
zidona. Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. yol. iii. p. 441. 
Brown’s remarks on the genus Acentropus and its affinities (from Sir 
Oswald Mosley’s ^ Natural History of Tutbury ’) are reprinted in the Zoolo- 
gist, 1864, pp. 8917-8920. 
Cnethocampa {Gastropacha) processionettjlj. An account of the mode of 
life of the caterpillar is giyen by Cornelius, Verb, natiu’h. Ver. preuss. 
Rheinl. und Westph. 1861, p. 64 (Correspond.). 
G. Gascoyne describes the life-history of Liparis aurijlua, Zoologist, 1864, 
p. 9332. 
The larya of Platypteryx unguicida is described by Newman, Entomologist, 
yol. ii. p. 34. 
Hoffmann has published a Dutch translation of a Japanese book on the 
Yama-Mai silkworm {JBomhyx yama-mai, Gu6r.), and of this a German 
translation by Haupt has been published in the Corr.-Blatt zool.-min. Ver. 
llegensb. 1864, pp. 62-81. This paper gives an account of the different 
kinds of Quercus used for feeding the silkworms, of the various modes 
adopted in rearing the insects, of the selection and preservation of the eggs, 
the treatment of the cocoons, and the management of the perfect moths. 
Gu^rin-Mdneville announced the return of M. Simon from North China, 
with eggs and cocoons of Anthercea pei'nyi, w^hich he believes, fr’om this cir- 
cumstance, to be double-brooded. The acclimatization of this species, the 
larva of which feeds on the oak, is to be attempted in France. Bull. Soc. Ent. 
Fr. 1864, p. X. 
Gu<5rin-M(5neville records the progi’ess of the experiments in acclimatizing 
the Japanese silkworm {Anthercea yama-mai) in France, and states that the 
larvaj having begun to hatch about the middle of March, before oak-leaves 
could be obtained for them, it was found that they would feed upon the 
leaves of Cratcegus glabra. Sixteen cocoons of Saturnia atlas, and twenty of 
Anthercea roylei, fr^om the Himalaya, the latter a fourth oak-eating silk- 
worm, have been received by Guerin. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1864, p. xv. 
Gu^rin-M^neville has found that the larvae of the Japanese Silkworm 
{Anthercea yamc-m'ii) are developed in the eggs within a few days of their 
deposition (in autumi), although they are not hatched until the following 
spring. Bull. Soc. Ent. France, 1863, p. xlvi. 
