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in their fuliginous colour. Female with the primaries covered 

 all over with fuliginous scales, which become moi'e sparse 

 towards the outer margin ; tlie lunated discal lines nearer 

 together, the innermost one (running from the end of the cell) 

 barelj distinguishable, the second indistinct, the third con- 

 sisting of broad lunated fuliginous spots ; secondaries pale 

 dull sandy yellowish, with a broad submarginal pale brown 

 belt ; marginal spots wanting ; thorax speckled with fuligi- 

 nous like the primaries ; abdomen pale sandy yellow, the 

 terminal segments bordered with pink : wings below sordid 

 sandy yellowish, with pale greyish submarginal belt ; disco- 

 cellular spot of secondaries blackish. Expanse, 6 2 inches 



1 line, ? 2 inches 10 lines. 

 Yokohama [Jonas). 



Also allied to L.japonica of Motschulsky, but smaller and 

 darker. * 



31. Lymantria aurora^ n. sp. 



Male of the form and general coloration of L. dispar, but 

 the primaries pale fuliginous brown crossed by three irregular 

 whitish lines near the base and three lunated whitish streaks 

 beyond the middle, the inner streak blurred and indistinct, the 

 outer one submarginal ; a whitish dot at the end of the cell ; 

 secondaries almost as in L. dispar. Female more nearly 

 resembling L. grandis ; the primaries greyish white, pink at 

 the base, with two zigzag basal blackish lines, the centre of 

 the wing and outer border crossed by lunated dusky belts ; a 

 grey spot in the cell and a marginal series of blackish spots ; 

 secondaries pale pink, brightest at abdominal margin, a spot 

 at the end of the cell and a submarginal band grey, margin 

 spotted with black ; thorax white, abdomen pink with white 

 anal segments ; margins of eyes, palpi, and legs rose-red ; 

 femora and tibise grey below ; tibige and tarsi banded with 

 black. Wings below greyish, margined with pink and with 

 dusky marginal spots. Expanse, ^2 inches 1 line, $ 3 inches 



2 lines. 

 Yokohama {Jonas). 



32. Dasychira lunulata, n. sp. 



Primaries silvery white, irrorated with black, crossed near 

 the base by an oblique blackish line commencing in three 

 small, fusiform, black-edged, brown spots, followed by a 

 blackish costal dash ; disk crossed by a sinuous lunulated 

 blackish line ; a subconfluent series of submarginal blackish 

 lunules : secondaries of male fuliginous, of female sordid 



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