The cases round the inmost room are devoted to the natural history of silk-displaying every variety of the silk butterfly, bombyx mori, as well as of the allied species; cocoons of every kind and in every condition; eggs and caterpillars at every stage of their existence; and hanks of raw silk from every part of the world where it is produced.
"The South of France--East Half"
Charles Bertram Black
It is not placed on a branch, but is suspended between two thin twigs, to which it is fastened by floss silk torn from the cocoons of bombyx Huttoni, Westw.
"The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1"
Allan O. Hume
The young Greek sitting on the window-counter had a golden fillet on his oiled and perfumed curls, sandals of the finest leather on his feet, and even in these humble surroundings looked elegant-but even more merry than elegant-for the whole of his handsome face was radiant with smiles while he tied two small rosy-grey turtle doves with ribands of rose-colored bombyx-silk to the graceful basket in which they were sitting, and then slipped a costly gold bracelet over the heads of the frightened birds, and attached it to their wings with a white silk tie.
"The Complete Historical Romances of Georg Ebers"
Georg Ebers