SATURNIA MYLITTA. 
151 
“ The implement used for taking off the thread 
is a small common reel of four bars. The cocoons 
are laid in a smooth earthen dish, without water ; 
the reel is turned by the right hand, whilst the 
thread of four or five cocoons passes over the left 
thigh of the spinner, and he gives the thread a twist 
with his left hand upon his thigh. The operation 
is this instant in my sight, with a thread of five 
cocoons, the produce of another species called Jar- 
100, and described below, but the reeling is exactly 
the same as that of the Bughy, and therefore one 
description answers for both. I must add, that the 
thread is exceedingly apt to come off double and 
treble for several yards together, which is not re- 
garded by the natives, as breaking off double threads 
would diminish the produce, and, moreover, would 
occasion loss of time : a very even thread, however, 
may with care be reeled from either the Bughy or 
Jarroo cocoon. 
“ The Jarroo cocoons, just alluded to, are so called 
from being produced in the coldest month of the 
year, say January ; the Bughy being about a month 
before them. The Jarroo are likewise annual, and 
the history of them is nearly the same as that of 
the Bughy; they are, however, different, as I am 
assured. The Jarroo will eat the Byer leaf if he 
cannot get the Asseen, but he will always prefer 
the latter, and produce a better cocoon when fed on 
it. His silk is more of a dull colour than that of 
the Bughy, which latter worm the hill people put 
on the Asseen alone, not because it prefers it to the 
