Old World LymantriidcV in the, National Collection. 489 



specimen ; whether his female type is really the female of 

 this form is I think very doubtfiil. 



Lymantria mathura. 

 Lymantria mathura, Moore, P. Z. S., 1865, p. 806. 



1 $, N. India (type). 1 ^, 1 ?, Kangra. 1 %, Dehra 

 Doon. 2 ^, 1 $, Sikhim. 1 ?, N.E. Himalayas. 3 ^, 1 $, 

 Loo Choo Islands. 1 $, Chefoo, China. 2 ^, Omeishan. 

 2 ^, 3 ?, Japan. 



Lymantria viola. 



Lymantria viola, Swinlioe, P. Z. S., 1889, p. 406. 



1 ^, 9 $, Thanna, Bombay, including th e types. 2 $, 

 Jubbulpoie. 



Lymantria grandis. 



Lymantria (jrandis, Walker, iv, 874, $ (1855). 

 ' „ ' „ Butler, 111. Het., v, p. 57, pi. 91, ff. 1, 2 



(1881). 

 Lymantria maculosa. Walker, iv, 881, ^ (1855). 

 Lymantria metarhoda, Walker, xxxii, 365, $ (1865). 



1 <^, 2 $, Ceylon, including the type. 1 $ marked 

 N. S. W. 



The type of metarhoda from Ceylon is in Mus. Oxon. 



Lymantria subrosea, nom. nov. 



Lymantria rosea, Hmpsn., III. Het., ix, p. 76, pi. 158, f. 28 

 (1898). 



1 $, Ceylon (type). 



Butler's Lymantria rosea from Madagascar (1879) ante- 

 dates this. 



Lymantria lucescens. 

 Porthetria htccsce^is, Butler, Trans. Ent. So?,, 1881, p. 11. 



1 $, Hakodate, Japan (type). 1 $, Tokio. 2 $, Oiwake. 



Lymantria manicata. 



Lymantria manicata, Aurivill., Ent. Tidskr., xiii, p. 193, $ 

 (1892). 



2 $, Old Calabar. 1 $, Sapele, River Niger. 

 The type from Cameroons is in Mus. Stockholm. 



