80 BURMA, ITS PEOPLE AND PRODUCTIONS. 



, AxinERjEA EoYLKi, Mooie. Duriilin<;. 



,, Simla, Westw. Darjilinn; (!). 



,, PAi'uiA, L. Bengal. Silliet. Assam. Ceylon. Java. 



The Tusseh silk moth, 2[unya of the Meehis, Kolisurra of the Deccan. 



The Tusseh lan-a feeds on Ziziiphus jujuba, Terminalia ah/a, glabra and cafappa, 

 Bombai heptaphrjllum, Shorea robmta, etc. A plain species, not ranging into the 

 higher hills. 



Attacus Atlas, L. Silhet. Java. 



,, Edwaedsii, ^Vliite. Darjiling. 



,, GuERixi, Moore. Bengal. 



,, RiciNi, Jones. Assam. N.E. Bengal. Ceylon. 



Sat. arrundi, Milnc-Edw. 

 Attacus lunula, Walk. 

 The Eria silk moth. 



The larva feeds on the Ricimis or Castor oil jjlant, and is domesticated in Malta, 

 Piedmont, Tripoli, France, etc. "The cocoons are remarkably soft and white or 

 yellowish, the filament so exceedingly delicate as to render it impracticable to wind 

 off the silk, it is therefore spun like cotton. The yarn when manufactured is woven 

 into a coarse kind of white cloth of a seemingly loose texture, but of incredible 

 durability, the life of one person being seldom sufficient to wear out a garment made 

 of it" (Roxburgh, Trans. Lin. Soc. 1804). The winding difficulty has been since 

 overcome (Journ. Agri.-Hort. Soc. of India, Vol. II. part ii. p. 01). 



,, CTNTHLi, Druiy. Assam. Bengal. Java. China. 



The ' Eria ' silk moth of Assam. 



This species is domesticated in China, and the larva foods on Ailanfhm glanduJoaa. 

 This and the last species have been very often confounded, a remark however which 

 is applicable to many other silk moths, and it is not now precisely known what wild 

 species are indigenous in Burma. 



Famihj Drepanulidse. 



Orkta EXTENSA, Walk. Bengal. Java. 



„ 0. suffum, Walk. 



,, OBiusA, Walk. Silhet. 



,, PAVACA, Moore. Darjiling. 



,, VATAMA, Moore. Darjiling. 



Ddtaija duplexa, Moore. Darjiling. 



,, PATRANA, Moore. Darjiling. 



„ viEA, Moore. Darjiling. 



,, SADANA, Moore. Darjiling. 



LoEPA Katixka, Westw. Bengal. Java. 



,, SiKKiMA, Atkinson. Sikkim. 



Famihj BombycidsB. 

 Trilocha varians, Moore. Bengal. Canara. 



Aeisthala Sikkima, Moore. DarjOing. 



BOMBYX MORI, L. 



The domestication of this insect dates from the earliest abyss of history, being 

 popularly ascribed in Chinese archives (according to Horsfieldj to Se-ling-she, the 

 wife of the Chinese Emperor Hwangte, who lived some 2G40 years before Christ. 

 How little the ancients knew of the origin of this material we learn from Vii'gil, 

 who supposed it to be a vegetable product like cotton. 



" Quid tibi odorato referam sudantia ligno 

 Balsamaque, et baccas semper frondeutis acanthi ? 

 Quid nemora -3ithiopum, molli canentia lana? 

 Velleraque ut foLiis depcctant tenuia Seres?" Gcorg. II. 118. 



