See Plateau, Bull. Ac. Belgique, xv. 1888, p. 28; in reference to structure of ocelli, Blanc, Tête du Bombyx mori ... 1891, pp. 163, etc.; and Landois in Zeitschr. wiss. Zool. xvi. 1866, p. 27.
Entwickelungsgeschichte der Schmetterlinge, Cassel, 1815.
Tr. Linn. Soc. London, Zool. 2nd Ser., v. 1890, pp. 147, 148.
For information as to the structure and function of the silk-vessels, refer to Helm, Zeitschr. wiss. Zool. xxvi. 1876, p. 434; and Gilson, La Cellule, vi. 1890, p. 116.
Jahresber. Schlesisch. Ges. lviii. 1881, p. 116.