Note to Lieut.Colonel Syxxs’ Account of the Silk-worm of the Deccan. 547 
soft and white, and the filament so exceedingly delicate as to render it impossible to 
wind off the silk. On turning to F. Cramer (Papillons exotiques des trois parties du 
Monde: UV Asie, V Afrique, et ! Amerique, Pl. A, 148), there is a figure a good deal 
resembling the female Koléswrra, denominated the Phalena (Bombyx) Paphia: 
references are made also in Cramer to Sepa, tom. iv. tab. 23, fig, 5, 6; to Drury, 
tom. ii. tab. 5, fig. 1, under Phai. Myletta: but the authors were ignorant of the habits 
of the insect. 
It is of very little moment, however, whether or not the Kolésurra be known to 
naturalists, the object of this paper being to diffuse a knowledge of new facts connected 
with its economy, and applicability to the uses of man. 
The following is a description of the Bombyx Paphia, by a distinguished entomo- 
logist ; the specific characters of the old writers being defective. 
W.H. Syxss, Lieut.-Colonel. 
Bombyx Paphia.—Liny. 
B.alis patentibus falcatis concoloribus flavis : strigis rufis ocelloque fenestrato.Fab. 
Habitat in Asia in India Orientali. 
Ale omnes flave, antice falcate strigis duabus violaceo-rubris anteriore undata. 
Ocellus (antice) annulo exteriori nigro, secundo roseo, tertio albido, quarto flavo- 
cenoso quinto aurantio, maculag : fenestratra, lined fusca obliqua par medium disci 
currente, postice paullo differt, annulo exteriori nigerrimo, 2do. aurantio, 3tio. cenoso, 
4tog. flavo. It may here be remarked, that the fuscous line on the anterior wings divides 
the ‘‘ Macula fenestrata” nearly equally running in an oblique direction. In the 
posterior wings the fuscous line is drawn over the anterior margin of the disk, and runs 
obliquely. 
F, W. Hopz, 
Vor. III. 4B 
