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figure are also represented the eggs and the cocoon. ‘The moth 
has the abdomen yellowish underneath, with little white tufts. 
Its wings are traversed by a white band, which is followed exte- 
riorly by a line of a bright rose; each wing is also marked with 
a lunula or crescent-shaped spot. 
In 1858 M. Gmérin-Méneville presented to the Académie 
des Sciences of Paris the first moths and the first eggs laid in 
France of the Attacus Cynthia. This able entomologist demon- 

Fig. 228.—Eggs, larvee, and cocoons of Attacus (Bombyx) Cynthia. 
strated very soon afterwards—Ist, that the caterpillars of this 
insect can be reared in the open air, and with scarcely any cost 
for management; 2ndly, that it produces two crops a year in the 
climate of Paris and the north of France; 3rdly, that the cultiva- 
tion of the Ailanthus or false Japan varnish tree, on which this 
insect lives, is easy even in the most sterile soil. 


