Ohl World LymaidriidiG in tlie National Collection. 495 



band ; nnder-side of body and legs Ijlackish ; both wings of the 

 colour of the fore-wings above ; fore- wings with an apical and outer 

 marginal grey band, which narrows hindwards ; hind-wings with a 

 broad black band as above. 

 Expanse of wings 1 ,'^ inches. 



Hal. FwAMBO, Tanganyika. 



Lymantria carriala, nov. 



5 . Frons, antennae, thorax, and fore-wings pale blackish-brown ; 

 two white spots on the thorax ; fore-wings with a large white patch 

 on the middle of the hinder margin, with a white spot immediately 

 above it, and with four small black spots inside it almost in the form 

 of a square ; two or three indistinct pale spots in the upper disc ; 

 hind-wings pale pink; a rather broad apical pale blackish-brown 

 band, which stops abruptly lialf-way down the outer margin ; 

 abdomen yellow, wilh dorsal and lateral black spots ; under-side, 

 wings as above, very thinly clothed ; body and legs blackish. 



Expanse of wings IxV inches. 



Hah. Angola. 



Belongs to the group of L. mosera, Driice, from Natal. 



Lymantria gondona. 



9 . Thorax and fore-wings pale grey, nearly white, the latter with 

 four darker grey transverse bands, limited by brown lines ; the first 

 basal, the second before the middle and bread, the limiting lines 

 rather sinuous, the third discal, a little narrower than the second, 

 bent outwards above lhe middle, the limiting lines semi-dentate, 

 the fourth apical ; the inner margin very sinuous ; hind-wings white 

 without markings ; cilia with pale brown spots ; abdomen pink. 



Expanse of wings 1| inches. 



Hah. Sabaki Valley, Brit. E. Africa. 



Genus Dura, Moore, Lep. Atk., p. .56 (1879). 



Dura alba. 



Dura, alba, Moore, 1. c. 



1 $, Darjiling (type). 2 ;^ without locality. 

 The type $ from Darjiling is in coll. Staudiuger. 



Dura albicans. 

 Dasychira albicans, Walker, vii, 1739 (1856). 



1 $, Celebes (type). 4 1;, Borneo. 1 ,;^, Singapore. 



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