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atticle. The Tofch filk, which is coarfe 
and ae durable, is Sr hither by a pha- 
Eena_called paphia‘by Linneus. It isa 
nativeof Bengal, Babar, Affam, &c. and 
feeds ‘on the leaves of rhamnus jujuba 
(byeér of the Hindcos), and on termina- 
lia alata glabra, Rox. (2ffeen of the 
Hindcos). It is found in great abund- 
ance in thofe countties, but cannot be do- 
mefticated. The hill people go annually, 
at the ede feafon, ito the jung'es, 
a when, by means of the excrement, 
they have diicovered the fmall worms, 
they cut off as many branches of the free, 
with the young wvuod ‘on them, as are 
fuficient for their purpofe, and diftribute 
them onthe afleen tree in proportion to its 
fize. As foonas the moth ptercesthe cocoon, 
it gets away, and cannot be kept by any 
precaution whatever. ‘Fhe cocoon of Ar- 
indy fik is remarkably foft, white or 
yellowith. It is fpun like cotton,’ from 
the impradtibil: ty of winding off fo deli- 
éaté a flament:. the yarn thus ; manufactur: 
éd is woven into a coarle kind of white cloth, 
whole texture “is of unrivalled durability. 
Fe is neccfaty to wath it in cold water, 
for boiling water miakes it tear like old 
rotten cloth, 
phalens cynthia of Drury and Cramer-is 
5 infeG pe coliar to the dit#rié of Dina- 
Rungpore, in the interior of 
Bengal: it feeds en the leaves of the 
man | mc. «ONY h 2 Chrifti led 
€ommon $3Ci MUS, Or pa ia fick ly Cai e 
by the natives arrindy, and, like thé com- 
mon filk-woim, is hatched in a domeitic 
fiate. The egs, larva, chryfalis, and 
imago of ‘both the infects, are {vientifically 
ddfcribed by Dr, Roxburgh. ANE. sin 
weak. € ail G 
t 
Pefcriptions of feveral. marine animals 
found on the fouth coaft of Devenfhire, 
by G. Mohtague, Eiq. with figures. 
Mr. Montague } nas here defciibed ix fpe- 
cies of cancer, two of onifcus, two of 
gordius, one of fyphunculus, one of lap- 
fyfia, five of doris, one of amphytrite, 
four of nereis, and one of afterias, moft 
of which are certainly new, and others hi- 
therto mmperfettiy defcribed. Art 2. De- 
feription of fome feffil theils found in. 
Hampfhire, with figures, by William 
Pilkington, F, L.S. &c. Thefe’ fhe! Is 
were found at Hordwell Cliff, and are pre- 
ferved in the colleftion of Mr. Swainicn ; 
they confit of one voluta, one buccinom, 
fix murices, one turbo, and’ one murita. 
Two of the murices are varieties figured 
by Mr. Brander; all the reft are fuppofed 
to be non-defcripts. Art. 12. An hifto. 
rical account of teftaceological writers, 
by Dr. Maton and the Rev. Thomas 
Rackett. This isa very mafterly paper, 
The filk’ produced by the. 
Retrofpee? of Domeftic Literature. Zoology. 
written with great elegance, and répleté. 
with knowledge: it concludes with claf- 
fing and exhibiting, in a tabular form, 
the writers on teltaceology, under the (€- 
veral heads of hiftorici, monographi, to- 
pographi, mufeographi, micrographi, 
thaumatographi, anatomici, phyfologi,” 
fyftematici, nomenclatores, commentato- 
res, and ichniog: aphi, with the titles and 
editions of their works. 
The botanical papers in this volume 
are eleven in number: the learned Pre- 
fident has given (Art. 13) an illuftra- 
tion of the grafs, called by Linnzus cor= 
nucopia alopecuroides, with a figure of 
the original fpecimen in the Lin. Mul. 
Dr. Smith has dilcovered it to be nothing 
more than a ers beck or rather . 
accidental monttretity of the phalaris utrin, 
culata of Linneus, which is itfelf, 
all its characters, a real alopecurus — 
Art. 14. Sir Charles Thunberg, Profef 
for of Botany at Upfal, has here given a 
defeription of fuch {pecies of chironia as” 
ie 
grow wild at thé Cape’ of Good Hope 
with figures cf two fpecies. Art. es 
new arrangement of the genus aloe, with. 
a chronological fketeh of the progreffive 
knowledge of that genus and of other fuc- 
culent genera, by A. H. Haworth. Fifty.’ 
one fpecies, with new fpecific charaéters, 
formed with the living’ plants, forty-nine 
of which were in his own poffefiton at the. 
time this paper was written, are arranged 
by Mr. Hawarth, under three grand di- 
vifions, with reference to the delcriptions. 
and figures of other authors: thefe divi. 
fions are, s. parviflora; 2. curviflore 5 
and 3. glandiflore, Art, 17, Obferya- 
tions on the durion, durio zibethinus of 
Linneus, by C. K6nig. The fcientific, 
‘general charaSter and defcription here. 
given, as well as the figures, were taken 
from yan of a {mall branch with 
Howers, and of the fruit preferved in fpi-_ 
rits, fent from Amboyna by Sir J. Banks. | 
Art. 2, On the germination of the feeds 
of the orchida. In this paper Mr. ‘Sali 
bury has endeavoured to correct an yertOe 
neous opinion entertained by feveral good - 
botanifts, that plants of the orchis tribe. 
feldom or never produce perfeét feeds. 
Art. 9. Defcriptions of fome {pecies of 
carex from North America, by Mr. Rudge: 
five {pecies are defcribed from dried tpeci= 
mens; they differ ftrikingly from thofe’ 
of European growth. Art. 16, Ona 
tions on the zizania aquatica, b [ Mr 
Lambert: the drawing is taken from a 
living plant in the poffeffion of Sir J. 
Banks, Art. 15. Remarks on the generic 
character of mofles, “ai particularly el 
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