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Eastern and African I leterocera. 547 



and Llack dorsal spots : fore wings with tlic markings black ; 

 a short hasal line followed by some spots; an antemedial 

 (Icntatcd line and duplicate outwardly curved deeply dentated 

 lines, well separated from the inner line on the costa, but 

 inclining close to it on the hinder margin, and not filled in 

 with black as is usual in this group ; submarginal ami mar- 

 ginal indented but incomj)lete lines : hind wings blackish 

 brown, some whitish suffusion in the disk, and a small white 

 mark on the outer margin below the middle. Underside with 

 both wings almost entirely suffused with blackish brown ; 

 legs blackish brown ; abdomen orange, with black lateral 

 spots. 



? . Similar to the male, though also suffused with brown 

 and with a deep black marginal border, but the fore wings 

 are purer white, the transverse lines thicker with large black 

 patcnes ; the ante- and postmedial lines joined together below 

 the middle by two large almost square patches, the upper one 

 having two white spots in it. 



Expanse of wings, ^J 2, ? 2 /'q inches. 



Kandy, Ceylon (Muckwood) ; one pair. 



Belongs to the beatri.c group, but that form has a male 

 that is entirely brown and the female has white hind wings. 

 I have both sexes from Java, where the type came from. 

 The female is nearest to L. fuh'ginosa, Moore, from South 

 India, but that form also has a brown male. I have four 

 males and three females, bred by me in Bombay. This 

 group has many local forms. I have in my collection good 

 series of beatn'x, Stoll, ganaha, Swinhoe, viarginata, Walker, 

 andfuliginosoj Moore, all constant in their differences from 

 each other ; ganaha has a blackish male, the others brown 

 males. 



Lymantria singapura, nov. 



(J . Antennai brown, the shafts with some white on the 

 basal two thirds; apical third pure white; palpi black, white 

 at the tij)s ; frons, head, thorax, and fore wings white ; middle 

 of head with a black spot and a crimson line behind it ; thorax 

 with black spots : fure wings with spots and lines black ; 

 two basal spots, four elongated spots beyond them, an ante- 

 medial highly dentate line, a cell-spot, a medial similar line 

 with longer teeth and double at tlie upper portion ; a sub- 

 marginal dentate line and marginal black spots which run 

 across the white cilia : abdomen crimson, with white anal 

 tuft and dorsal spots, two black at the base, four black at 

 the end, the middle spots white : hind wings crimson, with a 

 black border which docs not quite reach the anal angle; 



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