[503] 'Manuel de l'Educateur de Vers à Soie,' 1848.
[504] Robinet, idem, pp. 12, 318. I may add that the eggs of N. American silk-worms taken to the Sandwich Islands were very irregularly developed; and the moths thus raised produced eggs which were even worse in this respect. Some were hatched in ten days, and others not until after the lapse of many months. No doubt a regular early character would ultimately have been acquired. See review in Athenæum,' 1844, p. 329, of J. Jarves' 'Scenes in the Sandwich Islands.'
[505] 'The Art of rearing Silk-worms,' translated from Count Dandolo, 1825, p. 23.
[506] 'Transact. Ent. Soc.,' ut supra, pp. 153, 308.
[507] Robinet, idem, p. 317.
[508] Robinet, idem, pp. 306-317.
[509] 'Transact. Ent. Soc.,' ut supra, p. 317.
[510] Stephens' Illustrations, 'Haustellala,' vol. ii. p. 35. See also Capt. Hutton, 'Transact. Ent. Soc.' idem, p. 152.
[511] 'Etudes sur les Maladies du Ver à Soie,' 1859, pp. 304, 209.
[512] Quatrefages, 'Etudes,' &c., p. 214.