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crossed by an ill-defined outer discal recurved blackish diffused den- 

 ticulated line, outwardly bordered by pale pinkish cinereous ; this 

 line is almost obsolete in one specimen and fairly distinct in another, 

 a blackish speckled angulated mark at end of cell and an adjacent 

 cluster of blackish scales within the cell, cilia brown with pale pinkish 

 spots. Hind-wings greyish white, its marginal border broad and 

 brownish, cilia and abdominal margin pinkish, the breadth of the 

 marginal border varying in all three specimens, abdomen crimson 

 with dorsal row of brown spots and brown anal tuft. Underside, fore- 

 wings pale greyish brown, hind-wings whitish with indications of the 

 marginal border, brown, dark above and pale beneath, base of legs 

 with long crimson hairs. 



Expanse of wings 1^0 inches. 

 Type. India, in B. M. 

 a. India (2). 



The type is much worn and scarcely recognisable. 



1051. Lymantria eurvifera. 



Pegella airvifera. Walker: xxxv. 1922 (1866). 

 Type. Philippines in B. M. 

 a. Philippines {$ 9). 



Walker's type is a female, not a male as stated by him ; he erected 

 the genus Pegella on this Supposed male : it is a true LymaiiMa, 

 the male has greyish brown fore-wings and with the deeply pecti- 

 nated antenna of the genus. 



1052. Lymantria lepcha. 



Porthetria lepcha. Moore : Descr. Ind. Lep. Atk., i. p. 54 (1S79). 



Cotes and Swinh. : Cat. Moths of India, ii. 155. 1024 



(1887). 

 Type. Darjiling, in coll. Moore. 

 a. India. 



1053. Lymantria mathura. 



Lymantria 7nathiira. Moore : P. Z. S., Lond., 1865, P- S05. 



Walker: xxxv. 1916 (iS6fi). 



Porthetria viathura. Cotes and Swinh. : Cat. Moths of India, ii. 155. 1026 

 (1887). 

 Type. Darjiling, in coll. Moore. 

 a. Darjiling, b. India (4). 



Genus IMAUS. Moore: Descr. Ind. Lep. Atk., i. p. 54 (1879). 



1054. Imaus mundus. 



Lymantria munda. Walker: iv. 875 (1855). 



■ — Moore : Cat. Lep. E. I. C, ii. p. 343 (1859). 



P. Z. S., Lond., 1S67, p. 68 1. 



— Cotes and Swinh. : Cat. Modis of India, ii. 153. 1012 



(1SS7). 

 Imaus vmndtis. Moore : Descr. Ind. Lep. Atk., ii. p. 54 (1879). 



