A Catalogue of the Lepidopterous Insects in the Museum of the Hon. East-India Company, Nide 2W.H. Allen and Company, 1859 |
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abdomen antennæ Antheræa ANTHEUA Anticyra apex ARCTIA ARTAXA band basal bipectinated Bizone black dots blackish Boisduval Bombyx brown Buckley Canara Catal Chalcosia chrysalis cocoon costal Cramer Sp Darjeeling DASYCHIRA discal spot Dreata ETERUSIA Euproctis Eusemia Exot Exposition Universelle exterior margin Fabricius Feeds female ferruginous figured on Plate fore-wing GANISA Genus Grote Haust Hearsey Herr Hist HISTIA Horsfield's Collection Hübner Hypsa India Indian Collection indistinct Java Kollar larva larva and cocoon larva and pupa larvæ Latreille lection legs Lép Linn Linnæus List Lep Lithosia LYMANTRIA Méth Moore Plate moth NYCTEMERA ocellus original drawing palpi Parasa PHALENA-BOMBYX PHALERA Plate XVI posterior margin Presented by S. N. pupa S. N. Ward Saturnia Schäffer Schmett Schrank silkworms sition Universelle sp.-Female sp.-Male Spec species Stephens Stirps submarginal Syntomis Syst testaceous thorax transverse Universelle at Paris Verz Westwood wings yellow
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Sivu 408 - The yarn thus manufactured is wove into a coarse kind of white cloth, of a seemingly loose texture, but of incredible durability, the life of one person being seldom sufficient to wear out a garment made of it ; so that the same piece descends from mother to daughter.
Sivu 387 - PhaIcena paphia, is found in such abundance over many parts of Bengal and the adjoining provinces, as to have afforded to the natives from time immemorial an abundant supply of a very durable, coarse, dark-coloured silk, called tusseh, much used by the Bramins and other sects of Hindoos.
Sivu 374 - Caltivation of the Mulberry; Translated from the Works of Tseu Kwang-k'he, called also Paul Siu, a Colao, or Minister of State in China...
Sivu 408 - Ricinus, or Palma Christi, which the natives of these districts call Arrindy (hence the name of the insect), and is abundantly reared over every part of India, on account of the oil obtained from the seed. Feeding these caterpillars with its leaves will, therefore, make it doubly valuable where they know how to spin and manufacture the silk. The late Sir William Jones mentions this animal, in a letter to Dr. Anderson, dated...
Sivu 387 - Bramins and other sects of Hindoos. This substance would, no doubt, be highly useful to the inhabitants of many parts of America and the south of Europe, where a cheap, light, cool, durable dress, such as this silk makes, is much wanted.
Sivu 388 - Asseen trees they find the excrement of the insect; on which they examine the tree, and, on discovering the small worms, they cut off branches of the tree sufficient for their purpose, with the young brood on the branches ; these they carry to convenient situations near their houses, and distribute the branches on the Asseen tree in proportion to the size thereof, but they put none on the Byer tree. The Parieahs, or hill people, guard the insects night and day while in the worm state, to preserve...
Sivu 388 - This species cannot be domesticated. 1 am informed that the natives cannot even retain any of it for seed. The hill people say that they go into jungles, and under the Byer and Asseen trees they find the excrement of the insect; on which they examine the tree, and, on discovering the small worms, they cut off branches of the tree sufficient for their purpose, with the young brood on the branches ; these they carry to convenient situations near their houses, and distribute the branches on the Asseen...
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Sivu 409 - ... obliged to spin it like cotton. It gives a cloth of seemingly loose coarse texture, but of incredible durability, the life of one person being seldom sufficient to wear out a garment made of it, so that the same piece descends from mother to daughter. It is so productive as to give sometimes twelve broods of spun silk in the course of a year. The worm grows rapidly, and offers no difficulty whatever for an extensive speculation.
Sivu 409 - ... increases in size, it becomes of an orange colour, with six black spots on each of the twelve rings which form its body. The head, claws, and holders are black ; after the second moulting, they change to an orange colour, that of the body gradually becomes lighter, in some approaching to white, in others to green, and the black spots gradually become the colour of the body. After the fourth or last moulting, the colour is a dirty white or a dark green. On attaining its full size, the worm is...