[642] Colebrook in Asiatic Researches, v. 61.
[643] Milton's Comus.
[644] Hist. Animal. l. v. c. 19. A French gentleman, M. Vaucanson, has invented a mill for unwinding the cocoons of the silkworm. Scott's Visit to Paris, 4th ed. 304.
[645] Pausanias, quoted by Goldsmith, vi. 80.
[646] Pliny Hist. Nat. l. xi. c. 22.
[647] Aristot. ubi supr. He does not expressly say the pupa, but this we must suppose. The larva he means could not be the common silk-worm, since he describes it as large, and having as it were horns.
[648] vii. 33-48. Compare Lord Valentia's Travels, i. 78.
[649] xxiii. 235.
[650] Vorlesungen, 325.
[651] Latr. Hist. Nat. xiv. 150. Three modern species of Saturnia were formerly considered as varieties only, and distinguished by the trivial name of Pavonia major, media, and minor; these are now called S. Pyri, Spini, and Carpini. Ochsenh.