Old World Lymantriidx in tlic National Collection. 459 



Orgyia nucula, Swinhoe, Trans. Eat. Soc, 1895, p. 7, pi. 

 1, f. 15. 



1 $, Khasia Hills (type). 1 $, Fort Stedman, Shan 

 States. 



Orgyia leechi. 



Orgyia prisca, Leech, Entom., xxiii, p. Ill (1890) 



(preocc). 

 Notolophus leechi, Kirby, Cat. Moths, i, p. 495 (1892). 



2 $, Chang Yang, including the type. 10 ^, various 

 parts of Western China. 



Orgyia senica. 



Orgyia senica, Hmpsn., Journ. Bo. N. H. Soc, xiii, p. 234, 

 pi. B, f. 23 (1900). 



1 $, Chitral (type). 



Orgyia thyellina. 



Orgyia thyellina, Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc, 1881, p. 10, $. 



„ Leech, P. Z. S., 1888, p. 625, pi. 31, f. 7, 

 7a,?. 



1 ^, Tokio, Japan (type). 3 ^, Yokohama. 1 $, Oiwake. 

 5 ^, 6 ?, marked Japan. 



Orgyia viridescens. 

 Acyphas viridescens, Walker, iv, 798 (1855). 



2 $, Ceylon, including the type. 



Orgyia dewara, nov. 



^ . Antennas, body, and wings dark brown-pink ; branches of the 

 antennas black ; thorax and fore-wings with many pale pinkish 

 markings very difficult to describe ; fore-wings crossed by a number 

 of dark brown very irregular bands, and with a submarginal series 

 of large brown spots on a pale ground, all very obscure ; hind-wings 

 without markings, of a uniform colour, much darker than the fore- 

 wing, nearly black ; cilia of both wings with ochreous-white tijjs ; 

 under-side much paler brown ; both wings uniform in colour and 

 without markings ; palpi, body beneath, and legs dull ochreous, the 

 legs with some dark brown stripes. 



Expanse of wings IjV inches. 



Eab. Kapaur, N. Guinea {Dohcrty). 

 The fore-wings are narrower than is usual in this 

 erenus. 



