324 Captain T. Hutton’s Characters of 
9. Bombyx supnotata, Walker. 
Syn. Bombyx subnotata, Walker, Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. iii. 
Zool. p. 188 (1859). 
Of this species nothing more appears to be known than is con- 
tained in Mr. Walker's description of the moth (wbz supra), and 
that it was procured from Singapore by Mr. A. R. Wallace ; 
neither the larva nor its food are mentioned. 
In the absence of all information regarding the caterpillar, 
whether it is spined, like the two preceding, or smooth, as in the 
Chinese stock, it is impossible to decide upon the propriety of 
placing this species in the proposed new genus Theophila. 
10. Bomspyx Horsrietp1, Moore. 
Syn. Bombyx Horsfieldi, Moore, Cat. Ind. Mus. ii, pl. xi.a, 
fig. 5. 
This is not a Continental species and is merely inserfed here 
to complete the series; the moth is described and figured in 
the Catalogue of the India Museum, but here again we know 
nothing of the larva, cocoon or food. 
Its habitat is Java. 
11. Bomsyx Suerwitu, Moore, MS. 
Syn. Bombyx Shernilli, Moore, in epistold. 
Of this again the larva is unknown, and indeed the habitat is 
doubtful too. According to Mr. F. Moore the specimen was 
obtained from a collection said to have been made in the S. E. 
Himalayas by the late Major J. L. Sherwill; but Entomologists 
who have long collected in that quarter assure me that they have 
never seen a specimen of Bombyx from thence. Nevertheless, 
this is but negative evidence; and if once a specimen has been 
obtained others may probably follow. According to Mr. Moore 
it is “allied to B, Huttoni, and differs from it in being somewhat 
larger, and of a greyer colour, the forewing having the apical 
patch fuliginous instead of black, and it has only a single trans- 
verse discal streak (instead of the two, as in B. Huttoni). A most 
prominent character is that the abdomen is tipt with black, as well 
as having the dark ashy waistband.” 
Large light-coloured specimens are sometimes seen of B, Hut- 
toni, but I do not remember ever to have seen the abdomen tipt 
with black. 
