Old World Lymantriidm in the National Collection. 443 



L^LiA LAVIA, nov. 



(^ . Olive-brown ; palpi with black hairs beneath ; frons, antennae, 

 head, and thorax dark brown ; shafts of antennae white ; fore-wings 

 pale olive-brown, darkest on the margins ; a discal outwardly curved 

 row of seven black spots, and a blackish lunule at the end of the cell ; 

 abdomen and hind-wings paler, evenly coloured ; a blackish lunule 

 at the end of the cell ; under-side dull pale olive-grey \ a brown 

 lunule at the end of each cell ; legs ochreous with brown stripes. 



Expanse of wings IfV inches. 



2 $, Lavi, Brit. E. Africa {Betton). 



Ll^LIA exclamationis. 



Euprepia exclamationis, Kollar, Hugel's Kasch., iv, p. 469 



(1844). 

 Re'pena cervina, Walker, iv, 800 (1855). 

 Lacida rotundata. Walker, iv, 802. 

 Gycnia rubida, Walker, xxxi, 297 (1864). 

 Lymantria disjuncta. Walker, xxxii, 366 (1865). 



9 ^, 12 $ , from various parts of India and Ceylon, 

 including the types of rotnndobta from Ceylon, and disjuncta 

 from South India. 



The type of cervina from India is in Mus. Oxon., the 

 type of ruhida from Ceylon was in Layard's lost collection. 



L.ELIA ADALIA. 



Lsdia adcdia, Swinhoe, Ann. Mag. N, H. (7), vi, p. 307 

 (1900). 



1 ^, 1 $ , Jaintia Hills (types). 



Put with exclamationis in the B. M., but it is certainly 

 more nearly allied to atestacea; it is a good and distinct 

 form, and one of the largest of the genus. I have a nice 

 series of both sexes. 



liMlAk TESTACEA. 



Cycnia tcstacca, Walker, iii, 683 (1855). 



Lsdia uniformis, Hmpsn. (^ only), 111. Het., viii, p. 56, pi. 



140, f. 20 (1891). 

 CTiarnidas colon, Hmpsn., 1. c, f. 3, 19. 



1 $, N. India (type). 1 ?, Allahabad. 1 $, Bombay. 

 1 $, Mhow. 2 ^, 4 ^, Nilgiri Hills, including both of 

 Hampson's types. 1 $, Travancore. 



