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Notes on the following matters connected with the cultivation of the com- 
mon Silkworm were communicated to the Academy of Sciences in Paris : — • 
On the disease of the Silkworm by Mouline, Comptes Rendiis, Ixi. pp, 413- 
416, 480, and 638-639 (see also Rev. Seric. 1865, pp. 226-230) ; Pasteur, 1. c. 
pp. 606-512 (and Rev. Seric. pp. 276-286) ; Guerin-Meneville, 1. c. lx. p. 1306 
(and Rev. Seric. pp. 170-172) ,• and A. Polaillon, 1. c. p. 1307. Under the 
title of Etudes chimiques et physiologiques sur les vers a soie ” (Comptes 
Rondus, Ixi. pp. 866-876), Eugene Peligot publishes a series of researches 
upon the chemical constitution of the eggs and larvae of Bornhyx mori, and the 
relation of their increase in weight and of their composition to the quantity 
and constitution of their food. 
Girard calls attention to the probability that want of intercrossing may be 
the cause of the degeneration of the European silkworms. Bull. Soc. Ent. 
Fr. 1865, p. v. 
Ferrario (Rendic. 1st. Lomb. vol. ii. pp. 48-50) recommends the use of 
mulberry-branches in rearing silkworms, and describes a table to be used for 
this purpose if his method be adopted on a largo scale. 
New genera and species : — 
{Bombycides.) 
Sphingicampa, g. n., Walsh. Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. vol. ix. p. 290 
(see Zool. Record, i. pp. 332 & 503). Sp. S. distigma^ sp. n., Walsh, 1. c, 
p. 290. 
Walker (List Lepid. xxxii.) describes numerous new species of this group, 
referred to the following known genera : — Bunesa (1), Copaxa (1), Anther<xa 
(.3), JlypercTxiria (12), Dirphia (3), Gastropacha (3), Ilydrias (2), Odoncstis 
(2), Trahala (2), Opsirhina (10), Pachypasa (2), Lasiocampa (6), Megasoma 
(6), Leheda (4), Eriogaster (1), Poecilocampa (2), Callia (1), Clisiocampa (1), 
Tacillia (1), Ocha (1), Dryocampa (1), Adelocephala (1), Bomhyx (1), and 
Trisula (1) ; and the following as constituting new genera : — Sarvena incompta 
(p. 643), from Bogota j Turuenna dirphioides (p, 645), of unknown origin ; 
Panacela rufescens (p. 646), from Moreton Bay ; Semuta pristina (p. 647), 
from Australia ; Sahalia picarina (p. 548), from the Zambesi ; Cotana rithres-' 
cens and C. vidua (ip. 649), from New Guinea; Cotta glaucescens (p. 680), 
from Bogota; Mustilia falcipennis (p. 581), from Northern India; and An- 
draca hipunctata (p. 682), from India. 
Bomhyx dorycnii, Milliere, Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, tome x. p. 229, pi. 43 
(transformations and imago), from the south of France ( = j&. franconica of 
former authors). 
Bomhyx vandalicia^ Milliere, Icon. L^pid. ii. p. 93, pi. 62. figs 6 & 7 (with 
larva), from Spain. 
Sarnia Columbia, Smith, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. ix. p. 343, from Norway, 
Maine. 
(Saturnides.) 
Citheronia sepulcralis, sp. n., Grote and Robinson, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil, 
vol. iv. p. 222, from Massachusetts. 
(Limacodides .) 
Walker (List Lepid. xxxii.) describes numerous new species of this group, 
belonging to the following known genera : — Susica (I), JRomosa (1), Anapoia 
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