Guide to the study of insects and a treatise on those injurious and beneficial to crops, for the use of colleges, farm-schools, and agriculturists . BOMBYCID^. 297. FiK. 228. the oak, and can be raised in the open air, its cultivation hasgained much attention in Europe. A. Aurota Beauv. is com-mon in Central and South America. In Brazil it could beraised with success for home use, but is too delicate for anorthern climate. Telea Pob/phemus (PL 6, male ; PL 7, female) is brown, withlarge transparent eye-like spots in the centre of the wingsThe thread of which the cocoon isspun is continuous, an
Guide to the study of insects and a treatise on those injurious and beneficial to crops, for the use of colleges, farm-schools, and agriculturists . BOMBYCID^. 297. FiK. 228. the oak, and can be raised in the open air, its cultivation hasgained much attention in Europe. A. Aurota Beauv. is com-mon in Central and South America. In Brazil it could beraised with success for home use, but is too delicate for anorthern climate. Telea Pob/phemus (PL 6, male ; PL 7, female) is brown, withlarge transparent eye-like spots in the centre of the wingsThe thread of which the cocoon isspun is continuous, and is readilyunwound. It is coarser than thatof the Bombyx mori, but has a richgloss and can be used very exten-sively in commerce. Its larva(Fig. 227), which feeds on theoak, is thick, fleshj^, striped obliquely with white on the sides,with angulated segments, on which are tubercles giving riseto a few short hairs. The pupa (Fig. 228) is very thick, andthe cocoon (Fig. 229) is regularly oval cylindrical. Mr. L. Trouvelot gives an account in the American Natural-ist (vol. i) of this silk-worm, which is our most hardy nativeworm. So successful was he in rearin
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