SATURN II DJS — LASIOCAMPIDiE. 
Ins. 195 
New species : — 
Buncca plumicornis, Butler, Cist. Ent. iii. p. 18, Madagascar. 
Ceranchia reticolens and cribrelli , id. 1. c. pp. 19 & 20, Madagascar. 
Copaxa vulpina, id. 1. c. p. 20, Madagascar. 
Syntherata godcffroyi , id. Ann. N. H. (5) x. p. 227, New Britain. 
Eudelia vulpe-s , id. Tr. E. Soc. 1882, p. 18, Chili. 
Polythysana edmondsi, id. 1. c. p. 19, Waterhouse, Aid, i. pi. cxix. fig. 2, 
Valparaiso. 
Ilypcrchiria acharon, and var. debilis , Butlor, l. c. p. 21, Chili; II. ze- 
phyria , Grote, Canad. Ent. xiv. p. 215, New Mexico ; II. pamina , and var. 
aurosea, Neumoegen, Papilio, ii. p. 60, Arizona. 
Mimallo cordubensis, Berg, An. Soc. Arg. xiv. p. 279, Cordova. 
CERATOCAMPID2E. 
Ceratocampa imperialis : transformations described ; Wailly & Kirby, 
J. Soc. Arts, xxx. pp. 545 & 546. C. regalis coming to sugar ; Bruce, 
Papilio, ii. p. 188. 
Citheronia sejmlcralis, Grote, noticed by him as destructive to pine ; 
Bull. U. S. Geol. Surv. vi. p. 589. 
BoMBYCIDjE. 
Riley, C. V. The Silkworm ; being a brief Manual of Instructions for 
the production of Silk. Department of Agriculture, Special Roport, 
No. 11 (2nd edition). Washington: 1882, 8vo, pp. 37, woodcuts. 
Statistics of silk production in France ; J. Soc. Arts, xxx. p. 976. 
On silk-culture in America ; Riley’s Rep. Ins. 1882, pp. 67- 76. 
Bombyx mori. Effect of temperature on larvae ; Ormerod, Ent. xv. 
pp. 127-129. 
Lasiocampims. 
Catoccpliala (?) nigro-signaia , Phil., and Ormiscodcs crinita , Blanch., 
figured by Waterhouse, Aid, i. pis. Ixxxix. & xcviii. 
Streblota , Hiibn., recharacterized ; Berg, An. Soc. Arg. xiii. pp. 261 
& 262. 
Gastropacha rubi. Frozen larva reviving ; Schilde, Ent. Nachr. viii. 
p. 47. 
Lasiocampa quercifolia : $ depositing 580 fertile eggs ; Brandt & 
Krancher, Psyche, iii. pp. 363 & 364. L. trifolii : hermaphrodite noticed ; 
Fraser. Ent. M. M. xix. pp. Ill & 112. 
Bombyx ncustria : hermaphrodite ; Buchillot, Feuill. Nat. ii. p. 146 ; 
B. populi, L. : pupation described ; Forel, Kosmos, xii. pp. 207-210, wood- 
cut. The cocoon is prepared of partially digested earth. B. quercus, var. 
burdigalensis , from Bordeaux, p. 127, var. dalmatinus , from Dalmatia, 
and \a,Y.fenestratus [from Leipzig ?] p. 128, described ; Gerhard, B. E. Z. 
xxvi. B. quercus eating laurel ; Wilson, Ent. M. M. xix. p. 165. Varia- 
