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III. Account of the Tusseh and Arrindy Silk-Worms of Bengal. 
By William Roxburgh, M.D. F.L.S. 
Head January 5, 1802. 
THE TUSSEH SILK-WORM. 
PHALiENA PAPHIA. 
Jl h . Attacus pectinicornis elinguis flava, alis falcatis concoloribus 
ocello fenestratis. Linn. Syst. Nat. 2. p. 809- 4. 
Cramer, 13. t.UG.f.A. t.U7.fA.B. t.US.f.A. 
Phalama Mylitta. Drury, 2. t.b.f. 1. Mas. 
Bombyx Mylitta. Fab. Ent. Syst. 3. a. p. 411. 11. 
Bughy of the natives of the Burbhoom hills, where the silk 
(which the same people call Tusseh) is manufactured. 
A. native of Bengal, Bahar, Assam, &c. Feeds upon the leaves 
of Rhamnus Jujuba, (Byer of the Hindoos;) and of Terminalia 
alata glabra Roxb. (Asseen of the Hindoos.) 
The insects figured on the 75th table of the third volume of 
Rumphius's Herbarium Amboinense appear to be the same, though 
they are there represented feeding on the leaves of Rizophora 
caseolaris of Linnaeus (a tree now called Sonneratia acida). His 
description at pages 113 and 114 in the same volume also tend 
to confirm the idea of their being the same. 
They are found in such abundance, over many parts of Bengal 
and the adjoining provinces, as to have afforded to the natives, 
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