Silk-Producing Insects. 



Chemical Jfature of Silk The Spider's Web 

 Ifombic _ftcid (Detection of Wool in Silk G-reat 

 Vi-^ety of Insects producing Silk The Common 

 Silkworm,, Ijombyx mori The G-olden Tree The 

 (Province of Seres and the Jlforea (Prolongation of 

 Life in (plants and Animals -Artificial Incubation 

 and Bearing- of Ijombyx mori Enormous Jippetites 

 Insects Living- without Food Rate at which the 

 Silkworm Spins -Jrfodes of (Destroying- the Chrysalis 

 Calculation basis of Silk-breeding- The two J\fiul- 

 berry Trees (Diseases of Silkworms and their Re- 

 medies Improvement of Ijombyx mori Tussah 

 Silkworms : j^ombyx (Pernyi and 1$. Jdylitta Ijom- 

 byx Cynthia Extraordinary Qualities of Silk Other 

 JTew Species of Silkworm Spreading- of these J^Tew 

 Races The Jtfadag-ascar Silkworm (Production of 

 Coloured Silk by the Insects themselves Experi- 

 ments Ijombyx madrona Silk of the Clothes- 

 JAoih: Tinea The (Paraguay Spider Ichneumons 

 of the West Indies Silk Imported into Liverpool. 



