Old World LymoMtriidie in the National Collection. 491 



Lymantria brunneiplaga, nov. 



(J . Palpi black with white thick hairs at the tips ; anteniicT? brown, 

 shafts white at the base ; head, thorax, and fore-wings wliite ; costa 

 with four brown spots, the first and second large, third small, fourth 

 composed of two streaks ; a large brown patch on the middle of the 

 hinder margin ; some brown dots near the base : two deutated 

 transverse brown lines across the middle ; another submarginal ; 

 some rather large brown spots on the outer margin ; abdomen pink, 

 with a dorsal row of brown s23ots ; hind-wings grey ; a slightly darker 

 marginal border and white cilia ; under-side, pectus brown ; legs 

 white with black spots ; fore femora crimson and some crimson hairs 

 on the white thorax. 



9 . With wings shaped as in the female of lepcha ; head and thorax 

 chocolate brown ; fore- wings chocolate grey, the central and sub- 

 marginal transverse dentated lines of the fore-wings as in the male, 

 also the large brown patch on the middle of the hinder margin and 

 the brown spots on the outer margin, which however are on both 

 wings ; the hind-wings of a pale grey colour. 



Expanse of wings ^ l^u, ? ^rn inches. 



1 ^, 1 $, Java (types). 2 $, Borneo. 1 $, Sumatra. 

 1 $, Penang. 



Unfortunately in describing cava, Butler queried these 

 Bornean males as probably the males of his species, and 

 consequently these examples have remained over the cara 

 label ever since, and so stand in many collections ; but 

 they have no connexion with cairc, which Hampson was 

 perfectly justified in putting as the female oi similis. 



Lymantria lunata. 



Bovihjx lunata, Stoll, Pap. Exot., iv, pi. 869, f. C (1782). 

 Fcgella ichorina, Butler, Ann. Mag. N. H. (5), xiii, p. 201 

 (1884). 



2 ^, 2 $, Amboina, including Butler's type. 1 ^, Celebe?. 

 1 ?, Aru. 



I have it also from Celebes, Amboina, New Guinea, and 

 East Java. 



Lymantria curvifera. 



Fegella curvifera, Walker, xxxv, 1922 (1866). 



Lymantria curvifera, Swinhoe, Cat. Het. Mus. Oxon.. i, p. 



223 (note) (1892). 

 Lymantria lunata, Semper, Het. Philipp., p. 461, pi. X, ff. 



5, 7 (larva and pupa) (1898). 



