[65] ‘Transact. Entomolog. Soc.’ 3rd series, vol. iii. pp. 143-173 and pp. 295-331.
[66] Godron, ‘De l’Espèce,’ 1859, tom. i. p. 460. The antiquity of the silkworm in China is given on the authority of Stanislas Julien.
[67] See the remarks of Prof. Westwood, Gen. Hearsey and others at the meeting of the Entomolog. Soc. of London, July, 1861.
[68] See for instance M. A. de Quatrefages’ ‘Études sur les Maladies actuelles du Ver à Soie,’ 1859, p. 101.
[69] My authorities for the statements will be given in the chapter on Selection.
[70] ‘Manuel de l’Éducateur de Vers à Soie,’ 1848.
[71] Robinet, ibid., pp. 12, 318. I may add that the eggs of N. American silkworms taken to the Sandwich Islands produced moths at very irregular periods; and the moths thus raised yielded 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.’
[72] ‘The Art of rearing Silk-worms,’ translated from Count Dandolo, 1825, p. 23.
[73] ‘Transact. Ent. Soc.,’ ut supra, pp. 153, 308.
[74] Robinet, ibid., p. 317.