04 



Verz. bek. Schmett., p. 194 (1822?) ; Walker, List Lcpid. 

 Ins. Brit. Mus., vi., p. 1505 (1855); Hampson, Faun. 

 Brit. Ind., Moths, i., p. 32 (1892). 



Body stout, pubescent, a little longer than the hind-wings ; 

 antennae and legs short ; antennae slightly pectinated in the 

 male ; fore-wings with the costa arched towards the tip, which 

 is not very acute ; hind margin slightly oblique, with a 

 rounded concavity below the tip, and a shallower one betw^een 

 this and the hinder angle. Hind-wings a little shorter than 

 the fore-wings, oval, entire, with two sub-median nervures. 

 The larva is smooth, with a fleshy horn on the back before the 

 extremity; it spins an oval, closed cocoon. 



The type of this genus is the Silkworm Moth, and the name 

 Bonibyx was applied to silkworms by the Greeks and Romans, 

 and to the Mulberry Silkworm in particular, by medireval 

 writers down to the time of Linnaeus. The French entomo- 

 logists, however, frequently apply the name wrongly to the 

 genus Lasioca7npa, w^hich belongs to a very different family, 

 and adopt Latreille's genus Scricaria for the true Boinbyx of 

 Linnaeus, although the real type of Sericaria is Porthetria 

 dispar (Linn.) 



THE MULBERRY SILKWORM. DOMBYX MORL 



Bombyx 7?iori, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. (ed. x.), i., p. 499, no. 18 

 (1758); Esper, Schmett., iii., p. 118, Taf. 24; p. 396, 

 Taf. 79, figs. loa, b (1782); Hiibner, Eur. Schmett., iii., 

 figs. 193, 271-273 (1803?); Godart, Lepid. France, iv., 

 p. 153, pi. 14, figs. 3, 4 (1822); Moore, Cat. Lepid. Ins. 

 E. Ind. House, ii., p. 374 (1859); Hutton, Trans. Ent. 

 Soc. Lond. (3), ii., p. 303 (1865) ; Kirby, Eur. Butterflies 

 and Moths, p. 133 (iSSo). 



