374 CATALOGUE OF 



Genus BOMBYX, Schrank. 



Bombtx, Schrank, Faun. Boica, Il.pt. II. p. 150 (1802). Hubner, 

 Verz. leh. Schmett. p. 190 (1816). Walker, List Lep. Het. Brit. 

 Mtis.pt.YI.p. 1505. 



Phai^na-Bombtx, pt. Linnaeus. 



Bombtx, pt. Fabricius. 



Seeicaeia, pt. Latreille. 



909. BOMBYX MORI, Linnceus. 



Phalsena-Bombyx Mori, Linnceus, Syst. Nat. I. II. 

 p. 817 (1767) ; Amcen. Acad. IV. p. 563 ; Faun. 

 Suec. p. 832. {Aldrov. Ins. p. 280. ATbin, Ins. 

 pi. 12, f. 16. Beaum. Ins. II. pi. 5, f. 2. Boesel, 

 Ins. III. pi. 7, 8). 



Bornbyx Mori, Fabricius, Spec. Ins. II. p. 180 ; Mant. 

 Ins. II. p. 114 ; Fnt. Syst. III. I. p. 431. Godart, 

 Lep. de France, IV. p. 153, pi. 14,/! 3, 4. Heifer, 

 Journ. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, VI. £>. 40. Walker, List 

 Lep. Het. Brit. Mus. pt. VI. p. 1505. i%Z<?, 

 Beport on the Faris Univ. Exhib. pt. III. p. 216. 



Sericaria Mori, Blanchard, Gay, Hist, de Chile, Zool. VII. 

 p. 55. 



The common Chinese silkworm of commerce. 



Pat of Bengal, Boyle. 



a. h. $ $ . Bred in England. Presented by Mr. F. 

 Moore. 



In a " Dissertation on the Silk Manufacture and the Cultivation of 

 the Mulberry," translated from the Chinese works of Tseu-kwang- 

 k'he, called also Paul Siu, a Colao, or Minister of State, in China, and 

 recently published at Shangha}, and reprinted in 1858 at Madras, it 

 is stated that " the earliest allusion to the mulberry and silk met with 

 in the ancient writings of the Chinese is in the Historical Classic, a 

 work which existed before the days of Confucius, because it is quoted 

 by him, and which embraces the history of China from (B.C. 2356, 

 to B.C. 722) a period of 1,634 years. In the former part of that 

 period, we have the allusions referred to recorded in the section called 

 the tribute of Vu, who flourished 2,200 years before Christ. In his 

 days the mulberry is spoken of as a well-known production, and silk 



