Ins. 198 
WIPOPTEPA, 
New species : — 
Attacus cinctus, Tepper, Bull. Brooklyn Soc. v. p. 65, pi., figs. 1 & 2, 
S. Arizona; A. taprobanis , Moore, Lep. Ceyl. ii. p. 124, pi. cxxvii. figs. 1 
& la, Ceylon. 
Platysamia polyommatc \ Tepper, l. c. p. 66, pi., fig. 3, S. Arizona. 
Copaxa hanningtoni , Butler, Ann. N. II. (5) xii. p. 106, Victoria 
Nyanza. 
Anthercea cingalesa , Moore, l. c. p. 122, pi. cxxv. figs. 1 & la, b, 
Ceylon. 
Saturnia numida , Austaut, Le Nat. v. p. 359, Algeria. 
Automeris ophthalmica , Moore, P. Liverp. Soc. xxxvii. p. 251 (transfor- 
mations described, E. D. Jones, tom. cit. p. 252, pi. vii. fig. 3, larva), 
Brazil. 
Mimallo schulzi , Weyenbergh, Hor. Ent. Boss. xvii. pp. 141-147, 
pi. vii., Cordova (transformations described and figured) : = cordubensis , 
Berg ; Berg, An. Soc. Arg. xvi. p. 271. 
Hyperchiria zephyria , Grote, Ann. N. H. (5) xi. p. 52, and Tr. Kansas 
Soc. viii. p. 47, New Mexico ; II. lama , Berg, An. Soc. Arg. xv. p. 156, 
Salta. 
Micrattacu8 fulviventris , id. 1. c. p. 157, Missiones. 
Dirphia caisa , id. 1. c. p. 155, Buenos Aires. 
Bombycim; (including Sericiculture) . 
Annuario della R. Stazione bacologica di Padova, vol. x. [1883]. 
Dusuzeau, M. Rapport de la commission des soies sur ses operations 
de l’annee 1882. Ann. Soc. Agric. v. pp. 35-68. 
To this is added “ Compte Rendu des operations de la condition des 
soies de Lyon pendant l’ann^e 1882,” consisting of 18 pages of tables 
(without pagination.) 
Riley’s pamphlet on the Silkworm [cf. Zool. Rec. xix. Ins. p. 195] 
reached a 4th edition in 1883. 
J. Soc. Arts, xxxi., includes articles on Tasar silk (pp. 769 & 770), 
silkworm culture in Ceylon (p. 856), Turkish silk-farming (pp. 933 & 
934), silk-industry of the world (pp. 1043-1045), and manufacture of silk 
at Crefeld (p. 1046). 
Report on examination of raw silks ; McMurtrie, Bull. Dep. Agric. Ent. 
iii. pp. 56-71, pi. iii. 
Notes on Sericiculture, preceded by a reprint of Hutton’s paper on 
Indian silk-producing Bombyces, published in 1881 ; Atkinson, Notes 
Zool. N.W. Prov. Ind. pp. 188-205. 
Notes on rearing silkworms in N. America ; Riley, Rep. Dep. Agric. 
1883, pp. 101-107. 
Bombyx mori. Note on parthenogenesis ; Perez, Act. Soc. L. Bord. 
xxxvi. p. xxvii. 
Trilocha varians, Walk., redescribed and figured ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. ii. 
p. 136, pi. cxxxiii. figs. 1 & la, b. 
