L E P I DO PT E RA. 
BOMBYX TRISTIS. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Antennae gradually tapering from the bafe to the tip: tongue fpiral : wings in general defledted when at 
reft. Fly by night. 
* JBombyx. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Firft wings ferruginous, fpeckled with whitifh, and a fubocellar fufcous fpot near the anterior margin : 
fecond wings fufcous. 
Bombyx Tristis : alis anticis fcrrugineis albido pulverulentis macula fubcoftali fufca fubocellari 
pofticis fufcis. 
This is a very common infedl in fome parts of New Holland, and has retained a place in the cabinets 
of the curious in this country, from the period in which the Englifh firft formed a colony in New South 
Wales. Both the upper and lower furface of this fpecies are fhewn in the annexed plate upon a fprig 
of the 
Casuarina torulosa. 
BOMBYX MELANOSTICTA. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Anterior wings fattiny-white, with a black fpot in the middle : pofterior wings fufcous, with yellowifli 
fpots. 
Bombyx Melanosticta : alis anticis canefcentibus holofericeis macula medio nigra, pofticis fufcisj 
maculis flavefcentibus. 
As in the preceding fpecies both the upper and lower furface of our new fpecies Bombyx Melanoftifta, 
are reprefented in the fame plate. The figure delineated at the upper extremity of the plant has the wings 
expanded to firew the lower furface of this infedt: the upper furface is reprefented in the lower part 
of the plate. 
This infedt we received with Bombyx Triftis fome years ago from Botany Bay. 
