162 Ins. 
LEPIDOPTERA. 
Heniocha^ Hubn., recharacterized j Aurivillius, CEfv. Ak. Forh. xxxvi. 
(7) p. 49. 
Phalcena pavonia major and minor ^ Linn., are regarded by A. Speyer as 
the sexes of the common Emperor Moth ; consequently this must take the 
name of Saturnia pavonia^ and the large European species must retain 
that of S.pyri: S. E. Z. xl. pp. 151 & 152. 
Aglia tau. Late appearance in 1879 ; M. Girard, Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 
(5) ix. p. Ixxx. 
Saturnia io. Food-plants ; L. W. Goodell, Canad. Ent. xi. p. 78. 
Coscinocera, g. n., A. G. Butler, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 163. Allied to 
Argeina and Attacus ; type, Att. hercules, Misk., add C. omphale, sp. n., 
1. c. p. 164, New Ireland. 
New species : — 
Attacus ohscurus, id., Tr. E. Soc. 1879, p. 6, Cachar. 
Saturnia (Buncea) fusicolor, and S. (B.) auricolor^ Mabille, Bull. Soc. 
Philom. (7) iii. p. 139, Madagascar. 
Tropcea alienaf A. G. Butler, Ann. N. H. (5) iv. p. 355, Japan. 
Saturnia diospyri^ Mabille, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) ix. p. 316, Mada- 
gascar ; S. zaddacM, Dewitz, MT. Miinch. ent. Ver. iii. p. 34, pi. ii. fig. 6, 
Guinea. 
Perisomena cincta, Mabille, 1. c.’p. 317, Madagascar. 
Heniocha bi-oculata, Aurivillius, CEfv. Ak. Forh. xxxvi. (7) p. 50, 
Damara Land. 
Bombycidas. 
Blakely, E. T. The Silk Industry of Northern Italy. J. Soc. Arts, 
xxvii. pp. 96-100. 
Entirely statistical. 
Oongres International Sericole, tenu h. Paris du 5 an 10 Sept. 1878, xxiii. 
Paris ; 1879, 8vo, pp. 154. 
Chiefly of economic interest. 
Riley, C. V. The Silkworm ; being a brief Manual of Instructions for 
the Production of Silk. Washington : 1879, 8vo, pp. 31, 2 pis. 
Extracted from the Rep. Ent. ; Ann. Rep. Dept. Agric. 1878, 
pp. 10-32. 
Ticiiomirofp, a. Ueber die Entwicklungsgeschichte des Seidenwurms. 
Zool. Anz. ii. pp. 64-67. 
Deals with the development of the embryo in the egg. 
Bombyx mori. Prospects of sericiculture in England and elsewhere j 
A. Wallace, P. E. Soc. 1879, pp. xiv. & xv. Notes on the casting of the 
tracheae at the last moult, and on two pupae in one cocoon ; Potts & 
Riley, Am. Nat. xiii. pp. 454, 455, & 652. Westwood quotes some old 
observations of Majoli, according to which the larvae are sometimes trans- 
formed after the fourth moult without forming any cocoon, the result 
being an insect presenting a mixture of the characters of the larva and 
