490 Colonel C. Svvinboe's Revision of the 



Lymantria xylina, nov. 



^ . Antennae black ; palpi brown, white on the inner sides ; head, 

 body, and wings creamy white ; some crimson hairs at the base of the 

 antenna^. ; collar crimson ; fore-wings with a blackish-brown sub- 

 costal dot near the base, a small spot on the middle of the costa, a red- 

 brown, rather pale, sinuous, ei'ect transverse thin baud beyond the 

 middle ; hind-wings with some brown suffusion on the costal space ; 

 both wings with brown marginal dots between the veins ; under-side 

 dirty white, with indications of a transverse l)and on both wings, ex- 

 tending to lower end of cell on hind-wings, and some lirownish 

 sxift'usion in and near cell of fore-wings ; face, pectus, body, and legs 

 crimson. 



Expanse of wings 2]--^ inches. 



Hah. Formosa. 

 Lymantria galixara, nov. 



^ . Antenna? ochreons-grey ; palpi black, white inside ; body and 

 wings white ; thorax with three black spots ; abdomen with blackish 

 segmental bands ; fore-wings with five trsmsverse, upright, more or 

 less sinuous bands, similar to those in the fore-wings of L. lepcha, 

 Moore, from India ; hind-wings with a grey submarginal band and 

 some slight pinkish suffusion near abdominal margin ; under-side 

 white, without markings ; face black ; body and legs white. 



9. Antennje. ochreous-grey ; palpi brown; head, body, and wings 

 dull white ; fore-wings rufous gre}', irrorated ■\\ith white atoms ; 

 indications of central, discal, and submarginal rufous grey transverse 

 bands ; a ringed Innular mark at the end of the cell, and sub- 

 marginal whitish lunules ; hind-wings and under-side of both wings, 

 body, and legs dull white without markings. 



Expanse of wings ^ 2-i"Tr, $ 3-i'V inches. 



1 .^, 1 $, Singapore {Ridley) (types). 1 $, Bali, low country 

 (Doll erf y). 1 $, Tambak, Borneo. 



I have both sexes from Java, and a very large female 

 from New Mecklenburgh measuring Oy'V inches in expanse. 

 Semper records it from the Philippines under the name of 

 Lymantrict lepcha, Moore ; and the female at p. 460 of Het. 

 Philippines he doubtfully identifies as the female of 

 DasyeJnra- yrossct, Pagenstecher. 



Lymantria lepcha. 



Forihetria lepcha, Moore, Lep. Atk., p. 54, ^ (1879). 

 Barhona carncola, Moore, 1. c, p. 56, $. 



3 ^, C $, Sikhim, including both types. 



