MOTH. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Antennae cetaceous, decreasing in size from the base towards 
the point. 
Wings, when at rest, in general deflected. 
Fly in the night. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
PhaljENA mori. P. alls pallidis ; strigis tribus obsoletis fuscis 
maculaque lunari. Linn. Syst. Nat. Gmel. 1. 
p. 2413. 
Wings pale j marked with three obsolete brown 
bands. 
Silkworm. . Merian Ins. Eur. 1 . pi. l. Reaum. Ins. 2. 
pi. 5. f. 2. Allin Ins. pi. 12. f. 1(3. Shaw 
Gen. Zool. 6. p. 280. pi. 
The great service which these insects have been of 
to mankind from a very early period, has given them 
a degree of importance above the rest of their tribe; 
and, as we are much indebted to them for their 
labours, it will be but just to pay particular atten- 
tion to their history. 
Silkworms are reared in two ways : one is to let 
them remain at full liberty upon their native trees ; 
the other to keep them at home in a place particu- 
