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posed to belong to B. franconica aS fonining a distinct species, which he de- 
scribes under the name of B. dorycnii (vide infr&). 
Bombyx Uicis (Ramb.) is described with its transformations by Milliere, 
Iconogr. et Descr. deChen. et. L^pid. tome ii. pp. 49-51, pi. 56. figs. 5-8. 
Typhonia dardoinella (Mill.). The $ and larva are described and figured 
by Milliere, 1. c. ii. pp. 27-29, pi. 54. figs. 3-6. 
The young larva of Endromis versicolor is described by Weymei*, Stett. 
ent. Zeit. 1865, p. 112. The life-history of this species is given % Gas- 
coyne. Entomologist, ii. pp. 184-189. 
Gouley states that from his observations Orgyia antiqua has only a single 
brood in the year in Lower Normandy. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1865, p. xxxi. 
Flatyptei'yx lacertula and faloula. A. Edwards publishes notes on the 
history of these species. Ent. M. Mag. i. p. 188. 
The Entomologist (vol. li.) contains notes on the habits of the following 
species : — Argyia pudibunda and Bombyx rubi by J. Pristo, p. 144 ; Lasio- 
campa quercifolia by Moncreaff, ibid, j Dicranura vinuta by Pristo, p. 149, 
and Cliftbrd, pp. 169-160; Liparis salicis by Moncreaff, p. 191; Bombyx 
trifoUi by J. S. Dell, p. 315 ; Notodontd dromedarius by W. Watkins, 
p. 316 ; and Poecilocampa popuei by E. H. Todd, p. 246. 
Life-histories of the following species are given by Newman ‘—Bombyx 
callunce and querctis, Entom. ii. pp. 137-141 ; B. neustria, 1. c. pp. 265-267 ; 
B. trifolii, 1. c. pp. 291-292 ; Erioyaster Icmestris, 1. c. pp. 264-265 ; Bygcera 
hucephalttf Zool. 1865, pp. 9746-47 ; and Odonestis potatoria, 1. c. pp. 9826- 
0828. 
Perris records the devastations of Bombyx pityocampa among the pine 
trees of the Landes, and the destruction of gTeat numbers of these insects by 
the intense cold of January 1864. He also states that tlie nests of this moth 
are inhabited by Parmnecosoma abietis and Dermestes aurichalceus. Bull. Soc. 
Ent. Fr. 1865, pp. xvii-xix. 
Cnethocampa pityocampa is mentioned by Erber as most injurious to Pinus 
halepensis on the Dalmatian island of Lesina. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. in Wien, 
Bd. XV. p. 943 bis. 
Girard communicates some notes on keeping the larvee of Bombyx rubi 
through the winter. He succeeded in bringing them through the winter by 
giving them moistened food ; but they died in April in consequence of the 
attacks of Oryptogamic plants. M. Berce maintains that these larvae do not 
feed during the winter, which also appears to be the opinion of Boisduval. 
Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1866, pp. xxii-xxiii. * 
Girard also records that some larvae of Psyche calvella kept in the same 
vessel mth larvae of Chelonia cqja devoured the silky cocoons of the latter. 
Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1865, p. xxiii. 
Tieffenbach describes and figures a gynandromorphous specimen of 
dispar, in which the different sexual characters are very distinctly exhibited 
on the two sides. Berk ent. Zeits. 1865, p. 413, pi. 3. fig. 8. 
Saturnia pavonia {^—carpini, W. V.). Eogenhofer describes four so-called 
hermaphrodite forms of this species. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xv. 
pp. 514-516. 
