192 LYMANTRIID.-E. 



Genus EUPROCTIS. Hubner: Verz. Schm., p. 159 (1816). 



888. Euproetis leueomelas. 



Etiproctis leueomelas. Walker : iv. 838 (1855). 

 Type. Van Diemen's Land, in B. M. 



a. New South Wales. b. Van Diemen's Land (4). c. New 



Holland (15). 



A very variable insect ; typically they have a broad black border 

 to both wings, and from this to a plain whitish unmarked insect there 

 is every gradation. 



889. Euproetis bigutta. 



Euproetis bigutia. Walker: iv. 837 (1855). 



Moore : Cat. Lep. E. I. C, ii. p. 349 (1859). 



Lep. Ceylon, ii. p. 90, pi. 112, {.6 a (1882). 



Cotes and Swinh. : Cat. Moths of India, ii. 143. 935 



(18S7). 

 Swinhoe : Trans. Ent. Soc, Lend., 1890, p. 188. 



Euproetis biguttata. Moore : Trans. Linn. Soc, Lond., xxi. p. 55 (1886). 



Euproetis cdsa. Walker: xxxv. 19 15 (1866). 

 Type. Kanara, in B. M. 

 Type {celsa). Philippine Islands, in B. M. 

 a. Philippines (3). 



890. Euproetis bimaeulata. 



Euproetis bimaculata. Walker: iv. 836 (1855). 



Moore: Lep. Ceylon, ii. p. 89, pi. 112, f. 6, 6 b 



(1882). 



Cotes and .Swinh. : Cat. Moths of Lidia, ii. 144. 



936 (1887). 



Type. Ceylon, in B. M. 

 a. Ceylon (2) (Thwaites). 



891. Euproetis obsoleta. 



Euproetis obsoleta. Walker (nee Fabr.) : iv. 839 (1S55). 

 a. Van Diemen's Land (10). b. New Holland (2). e. Ade- 



laide. 



Walker wi-ongly identified this insect as obsoleta (Fabr. : Ent. Syst., 

 iii. i. 463), but the Fabrician type specimen which is in the Banksian 

 Cabinet, B. M., though superficially like this insect, belongs to the 

 Genus Lalia, and therefore Walker's name for the Eitproctis can 

 stand. 



892. Euproetis fusipennis. 



Euproetis fusipennis. Walker : Jonm. Linn. Soc, Lond., vi. p. 128 (1862). 



xxxii. 346 (1865). 



a. Sarawak, Borneo (type) (Wallace). 



