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THE TUSSEH SILKWORM MOTH. 

 Phalana Paphia. 



PLATE XLVI1I. 



Phalsena paphia, Cramer's Desc. des Pap. pi. 146, f. A. 



pi. 147, f. A. B. pi. 148, f. A. ; Linn. Trans, vii. p. 33 



Phalaena mylitta, Drury, ii. pi. 5, fig. 1. Male Bombyx 



mylitta, Fab.Ent. Syst. 3 A. p. 411, 11. 



THE following description of this insect in its 

 various stages was collected and drawn up by Dr 

 Roxburgh/ who spent many years in India, and 

 had an opportunity of witnessing the animal. 



" The EGGS are white, round, compressed, with 

 a depression or pit in the centre, on each side ; the 

 circumference crossed with rugee, corresponding 

 with the rings of the inclosed animal. They hatch 

 in from two to four weeks, according to the state 

 of the weather." 



The following FIGURE represents the eggs the size 



* Linnean Transactions, vii. p. 33. 



