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III. Account of the Tusseh and Arrindy Silk-Worms of Bengal. 

 By William Roxburgh, M.D. F.L.S. 



Read January 5, 1802. 



THE TUSSEH SILK-WORM. 



PHALJENA PAPHIA. 



IT h. Attacus pectinicornis elinguis flava, alis falcatis concoloribus 

 ocello fenestratis. Linn. Syst. Nat. 2. p. 809. 4. 



Cramer, 13. t.U6.f.A. *. 147-/.A.B. t.U8.f.A. 

 Phalama Mylitta. Drury, 2. t.5.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 

 Runiphius's Herbarium Amboinense appear to be the same, though 

 they are there represented feeding on the leaves of Rizophora 

 caseolaris of Linnams (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, 



vol. v ii. f from 



