494 Colonel C. Swinhoe's Revision of the 



spot at the end of the cell ; a pale sinuous discal line, and some pale 

 yellowish elongated spots in tlie disc ; all these markings more or 

 less ol)scure and contracted in the male, prominent in the female ; 

 cilia yellow with brown spots ; hind-wings ochreous without 

 markings. 



Expanse of wings (^ ly\, $ liV inches. 



2 ^, 3 $,N'Gami Country (Liu/ard). 



Lymantria BANAN.^2. 



Lymantria hananm, Butler, P. Z. S., 189G, p. 848, pi. 42, 

 f. 9. 



1 ^, Nyassaland (type). 

 Lymantria tottea, no v. 



(J. Palpi with the lower and under part>; white, tips and last 

 joints black, and a tuft of black liairs immediately below ; antenna; 

 grey ; frons brown, with the edges greyish-ochreous ; heftd and 

 thorax greyish-ochreous ; fore-wings pale brownish-grey with a tinge 

 of yellow ; a broad whitish band divided by the veins into eight 

 square-shaped large spots, and a large square spot at the end of the 

 cell, divided from the band by a thin band crossing the discoidal 

 vein ; a small round spot in the middle of the disc outside the band ; 

 abdomen pale greyish-yellow; hind-wings white tinged witli yellow ; 

 under-side white without markings ; pectus and fore -legs ochreous ; 

 legs white with black tips. 



Expanse of wings IfV inches. 



Hah. Old Calabar. 



Allied to lananfe with which I found it, but very 

 different, except superficially. 



Lymantria mosera. 



Lymantria mosera, Druce, Ann. Mag. N. H. (7), i, p. 208 

 (1898). 



1 ^, 1 $, Delagoa Bay. 2 ^, 1 $, Natal. 1 ^, Rhodesia. 

 Lymantria eddela, nov. 



^ . Antenna? black, shafts white ; frons, head, tliorax, and fore- 

 wings pale pinkish butf ; a black spot at liase of fore-wings, and three 

 other spots close to it ; antemedial and discal transverse lines of black 

 spots, erect but slightly sinuous ; three black spots at the end of the 

 cell ; abdomen orange with a dorsal row of black spots ; hind-wings 

 paler than the fore-wings, nearly white ; a broad marginal black 



