Old World LymcmtriidcV in the National Collection. 487 



Lymantria similis. 



Lymantria similis, Moore, P. Z. S., 1879, p. 402, ^. 

 Lymantria cara, Butler, 111. Het., v, p. 56, pi. 00, f. 13, % 

 (1881). 



1 ^, Calcutta (type). 1 $, Bengal. 1 $, Bhotan (type 

 cara). 



I think it may be fairly assumed that these are conspe- 

 cific, though the examples do not come from the same 

 locality; the differences in the sexes are similar to those 

 usually occurring in the eoneolor group, and the double 

 band on the hind-wings is similar in both sexes. 



Lymantria Beatrix. 



Bomlnjx leatrix, Stoll, Suppl. Cram., pi. 40, f. 2 (1701). 



1 %, Java. 



Stoll's figure is excellent; I have three females from 

 Java in my own collection, all identical with the B. M. 

 example and with Stoll's figure, and have seen many 

 others ; it appears to me to be very distinct from the Indian 

 forms put under it in the B. M. 



Lymantria ganaha, nov. 



$ . Fore-wings, upper-side of a imiform purplish-grey colour, 

 slightly tinged with pink, and with a glazed appearance ; markings 

 and hind-wings the same as berdrix ; in beatrix the fore-wings are 

 pure white. 



Expanse of wings 2-j-^ — 3 inches. 



4 $, Java. 1 $, Kuching, Borneo. 



A form of hcatrire. I have 3 $ in my own collection from 

 Java and 3 ^, and there are three Javan males in the 

 B. M. ; but without breeding I do not think it is possible 

 to say whether they belong to this form or to heatrix, but 

 they are quite different from the males of various Indian 

 forms sunk under heatrix. 



Lymantria marginata. 



Lymantria marginata, Walker, iv, 877 (1855). 

 Lymantria ];>usill a, Felder, Reise Nov., pi. 99, f. 3 (1868). 

 Lymantria nigra, Moore, P. Z. S., 1888, p. 309. 



1 $, Bengal. 1 $, Silhet (type). 2 $, Sikhim. 1 ?, 

 Burma. 3 ;^, 3 %, Kanora (including Moore's types). 2 % 

 Masuri. 2 ^, 2 $, Sikhim. 



