488 Colouel C. Swinhoe's Revision of the 



The males vary much in size, bat are quite diiferent 

 from the Javau males ; they vary also much in shade of 

 colour, but none of them have any tinge of yellow ; the 

 females vary in the width and intensity of the medial band 

 of the fore-wings; their hind -wings are always pure white, 

 with a black border ; I have this form in my own collection 

 from Dharmsala, Sikhim, and the Khasia Hills. 



Lymaxtria fuligixosa. 

 Lymantria fuliginosa, Moore, P. Z. S., 1883, p. 17. 



5 <^, 2 ^, Bombay, including the types. 1 $, Ceylon. 



I have it also from Bombay where I have bred this 

 form; there is a general yellow tinge in the male; it is 

 nearer to the Javan form than any of the other Indian 

 forms; the hind-wings are always more or less yellow ; the 

 hind-wings of the female are alwa3^s entirely sutfused with 

 black ; I have never seen an exception. The tvpe of 

 Moore's nmhrina I have not seen, it is also inckided by 

 Harapson under heatrix without any mention of the differ- 

 ences between the forms, just as if they ran into each 

 other, but this they do not do. 



There are 1 ^, 3 $ from Moupin, and 1 $ from Chang 

 Yang, and 1 ^, 2 $ from Penang which appear to repre- 

 sent two more forms, and I have no doubt that there are 

 many other forms of this species, or group, still unknown. 

 To call them all heatrir is very misleading. 



Lymaxtria yelutina. 



Orgi/ia {Dasycliira) vehdina, Mab., Bull. Soc. Zool. Fr., iii, 

 p. 90 (1878). 



1 $, Madagascar. 



Lymaxtria aurora. 

 Lymantria aurora, Butler, Ann. Mag. N. H. (4), xx, p. 

 403 (1877). 

 Butler, 111. Het., ii, pi, 24, f 5 (1878). 

 Lymantria aurora, var. fiisca, Leech, P. Z. S., 1888, p. 

 629. 



1 ^, 1 $, Japan (types). 1 ^, 1 $, Yesso. 4 $, Naga- 

 hama, including type fusca. 



Sunk to matliura in the B. M. collection, but it is a 

 distinct form, the male being uniformly blackish-brown. 

 Butler's male type example is an old worn and faded 



