Asiatic Silk-producing Moths. 317 



Inhabits Assam, Bengal, and is mentioned by Tennent as 

 occurring in Ceylon. 



This is the commonly cultivated Eria, and in Bengal yields 

 four or five crops annually. 



Attacus Guerinii, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1859, pi. Q5, f. 3. 



Similar to the Eria, but the smallest of the group. Believed 

 to be from Bengal, and may be distinguished by the at)sence of 

 the talcose lunule on the fore-wing. 



Actias Selene (Macleay), Leach's Zool. Misc. 1815, pi. 70 

 (Cramer, i. pi. 31, f. A.). Sijn. Pleclropteron Diana, Hutton, 

 Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. V. 45 (1847). 



Inhabits Silhet, Darjeeling, and, states Capt. Hutton, is common 

 at Mussooree, where the larva feeds upon Andromeda ovalifolia, 

 Carpmiis himana, Coriaria Nipalensis, Cedrela paniculata, Glochidion 

 ovatum, the wild cherry and the walnut, and can be easily domes- 

 ticated. It is mentioned by Tennent as occurring in Ceylon. 

 Occurs also in Pondicherry, where M. Perrottet states the larva 

 feeds on the Odina wodier, and where attempts to rear this species 

 in a domestic state have proved that it yields four crops of 

 excellent silk annually. 



Actias Mcenas, Doubleday, Ann. Nat. Hist. 1847, p. 95 ; Westw. 



Orient. Entom. pi. 22. 

 Inhabits Silhet. 



Actias Sinensis, Walker, List Lep. Het. B. M. p. 1264 (1855). 

 Inhabits N. China. 



Actias Leto, Doubleday, Proc. Ent. Soc. Lond. v. p. li. (1849). 

 Inhabits Silhet, Darjeeling. 



Anthercea Assama (Heifer), Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 18^7, 

 p. 43 ; Westw. Cabinet Orient. Ent. pi. 20. 



Mooga or Moonga of the Assamese. 



Inhabits Assam, Silhet, Ceylon,* and also occurs at Mussooree, 

 — a specimen having been taken, Capt. Hutton informs me, in that 

 locality. 



According to Dr. Hugon, the Moonga is extensively cultivated 

 in Assam, and the silk forms one of its principal exports. It can 

 be reared in-doors, but thrives best in the open air upon the trees. 

 The larva feeds on the Champa {Michelia sp.), Soon, Kontooloa, 



* Fide Walker, in Tenncnt's " Ceylon." 



