LEPIDOPTEBA HBTEROCERJ 



Genoa 88. BOMBYX. 

 Corpus crassum. Proboscis obsolete. Palpi InevisMini vix 

 onspicui. Antenna late pectinate, thonce longtores. Abdomen 

 las postrcas superans. Pedes robusti, pilosi . tibia poetic oaleari- 

 ,na dnobus apical. bus minimis. Alai vix lata ; entice falcate 

 i( puct costam subrecte, margine exteriore undulate perohBquo. 



Wbyx, Hubn. Verz. Schmett. (Phal<cnm Verm Eutrich* Shnu- 



L lata), 190. 



^balaena-Bombyx, p., Linn.; Gmel. 

 Sombyx, p., Fabr. ; Scop. ; Oliv. ; God. 

 •ericaria, Latr. ; Blanch. 



Body thick. Proboscis obsolete. Palpi very short, hardly 

 rsible. Antennae deeply pectinated, longer than the thorax. Ab- 

 domen extending beyond the hind wings. Legs robust, pilose ; hind 

 tibiae with two very minute apical spurs. Wings bard I y broad 

 ?ore wings slightly falcate, almost straight along the costa, slightly 

 undulating, and very oblique along the exterior border ; second in- 

 ferior vein rather remote from the first and about twice further from 

 jhe third. 



1. Bombyx Mori. 



Alba. F&m.—Alae anticce fasciis nonnullis obliquis subobsoletis 

 obscurioribus. 



The Silkworm. 



» Aldrov. Ins. 280. Mouff. Ins. 181. Jonst. Ins 



pi. 22. Go'ed. Ins. i. pi. 42. List. Go'ed. f. 32. Albin Tns 

 pi. 12, f. 16. Bradl. Nat. pi. 27, f. 1. Reaum. Ins. ii. pi, ;>, r. 

 2. Roes. Ins. iii. pi. 7, 8. Ammir. Ins. pi. 9. Blank. Ins. 

 60, pi. 9. Marian, Ins. Eur. i. pi. 1. Trior. Act. Stochh 

 (1745) 253, pi. 14, f. 1. Geoff. Ins. Par. ii. 116, is. 

 |?halaena-Bombyx Mori, Linn. Syst. Nat ii. 817, 33 ; Aman. 

 Acad. 4, 563 ; Faun. Suec. 832. Gmel. ed. Suit Xat i '> 

 \ 2413, 33. " 



jJombyx Mori, Fabr. Sp. Ins. ii. 180,57; Mont. Ins. ii. Hi. | 

 Ent. Si/st. iii. 1, 431, 76. Scop. Ent. Cam. 486. Oliv. / 

 Meth. v. ol, 98. God. Lip. de France, iv. 163, pi. 14, £ 3 i. 

 Hubn. Verz. Schmett. 191, I960. Heifer, .fount. Asia!. > 

 Bengal, vi. 40, 1. 



fericaria Mori, Blanch. Gay, Hist, dc Chile, Zool. vii 

 — c. China. 



