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Plants on which Tusser worm 



feeds - - 15, 127-136 



Plush made from Tusser silk 37, 38 

 Poonah - - - 20 



Price of Bengal silk - - 12, 40 

 Prices of silks of commerce - 40 

 „ Tusser silk - - 39, 40 



Printing Tusser silk - - 34 



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 Softening Tusser cocoons for 



reeling - - -30 



Spinning of cocoon hy Tusser 



silkworm - - - 26 



Spinning of Eria silk - - 50, 58 



„ Muga silk - 58 



„ Tusser silk - 35 



Strengths of silk fibres - 68 



Superstitions connected with 



Tusser sericulture - - 17, 19 



Tensions of silk fibres - - 68 

 Theophila Bengalensis - 4 



Theophila Huttoni - - 4 



Theophila mandarina - 4 



Theophila religiosa - - 4 



Theophila Sherwilli - - 4 



Throwing of Tusser silk 31, 35, 36 

 Tusser cocoons - - 18, 101 



„ „ mode of soften- 



ing, for reeling - 30 



„ moth - - - 99 



„ organzine - - 31, 36 



„ on Tusser embroidery 47, 1 52 

 „ sericulture - - 16 



„ silkworm and silk - 13, 100 

 „ tram - - 31, 36 



Uses of Tusser silk - - 36 



Values of Indian coins, money, 

 weights and measures - 76 



Wallace, Dr. Alex. - - 48 



Waste of Tusser silk - - 35, 60 



Weights, Indian - - 76 



Wild silks - - - 13 



Q 3255. 



