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THE TUSSEH SILKWORM MOTH. 
Phalena Paphia. 
PLATE XLVIII. 
Phalena paphia, Cramer's Desc. des Pap. pl. 146, f. a. 
pl. 147, f. a. B. pl. 148, f. a. 5 Linn. Trans. vii. p. 33.— 
Phalwna mylitta, Drury, ii. pl. 5, fig. 1. Male.—Bombyx 
mylitta, Fab. Ent. Syst. 3 a. p. 411, 11. 
Tur 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 ces are white, round, compressed, with 
a depression or pit in the centre, on each side ; the 
cireumference crossed with ruge, 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 ricurE represents the eggs the size 
* Linnean Transactions, vii. p. 33. 
