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draws as to the disease not being hereditary are disputed by Pasteur 
(Comptes rendus, Ixviii. pp. 628-639; see also Monthly Microscopical 
Joum. i. pp. 804-309, and Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1869, pp. 123-126). 
On the analysis of healthy and diseased silkworms see Mene, Rev. et Mag. 
do Zool. 1869, pp. 29-31. 
On roaring silkworms in the open air at Rordoaux see Gintvac, Cosmos, 
8® s»Sr. V. pp. 223-225; Comptes rendus, Ixix. pp. 024, 025. Jeannel (Bull. 
Soc. Imp. d’Acclim. 2® s6rie, vi. pp. 415-417) remarks on the same subject. 
On the increase and decrease in the weight of the silkworm at different 
stages, see Von Linstow, Corr.-Blatt. zool.-min. Ver. Regensb. 1869, pp. 43- 
45, pi. 1. 
Taillon thinks that the silkworm can be reared wherever the mulberry 
will grow. Comptes rendus, Ixix. p. 733. 
Lepage has been very successful in rearing silkworms at Douera by great 
attention to diet, ventilation, and cleanliness. Ibid. Ixviii. p. 942. 
Brouzet recommends that salsify should bo alternated with mulberry in 
the food of silkworms. Ibid. pp. 646, 647. 
New genera and species : — 
3Ie8utesoma, Rambur, Cat. Syst. L^p. d’Andalusie, ii. p. 341, note. Type 
Gastropacha otus, auct. 
Epicnaptera, Rambur, 1. c. p. 344. Type Gastropacha suhcrifolia^ Dup. 
Phylloxera* {^Chrostogastriay 1. c. p. 846. Type Gas- 
tropacha pruniy auct. 
Rambur, Cat. Syst. Ldp. d’Andalusie, ii. p. 347, note. Type 
Gastropacha lohulma^ auct. 
Diplura^ Rambur, /. c. p. 350. Type G. loti, Ochs. 
Autosphyla, Rambur, 1. c. p. 364, note. Type Cnethocampa ncoyma, Boisd. 
Macrothylacia, Rambur, 1. c. p. 368. Type Gastropacha ruhi, auct. 
Achnocampa, Rambur, 1. c. p. 361. Type A. ilicis, Ramb. (figured, 1. c. i. 
pi. 5. fig. 4 ; larva, pi. 14. fig. 1 a). 
Lachnocampa, Wallongren, Skand. Ilotorocor. ii. 1. p. 89 {^Macrothylacia, 
Rambur, supra). 
Lohocampa, Wallengr. l.c. p. 102 (= Chrostogastria, Iliibn. ; := Phylloxera, 
Ramb., suprh). 
Ammatocampa, Wallengr. 1. c. p. 113. Subcostal nervure emitting at 
least one branch towards the front margin of hind wings. Subcostal area of 
hind wings present, closed, but larger than the discoidal cell, or of equal size. 
Palpi rather short, of ordinary structure. Detached nervure and styloid 
branch of the hind wings coalescent, rising from the hinder angle of the dis- 
coidal cell. Type Bomhyx ilicifolia, Linn. 
Hydrias canifascia. Walker, Lepidoptera Ileterocera, p. 24, Limas. 
Opsirhina punctilinea. Walk. l.c. p. 67, Australia. 
Bonibyx, Boisduval (Ann. Soc. Entom. Beige, xii. p. 82) describes the 
following Californian species as new : — B. friitetorum, =castrensis. Smith & 
Abbot (= dccipiens. Walker); P. drupacearum, —mustria, Sm. & Abb. (= 
IJUbn.) ; P. pseudoneustria. 
l*reoccupied in Homoptcra. 
