460 



from the cell than 10. Hind wing with veins 3, 4, 5 from close 

 to angle of cell ; 6 and 7 from upper angle. 



<J> . Antennae serrate ; wings either fully developed, or partially 

 aborted, or reduced to scales. 



SECT. I. (Enome). Female with scale-like wings ; hind wing of 

 male with the inner margin long ; hind tibiao with a minute 

 terminal pair of spurs. 



1027. Lymantria incerta, Wlk. Cat. iv, p. 880; C. $ S. no. 1030. 

 Lymantria aryama, Moore, Lep. E. I. Co. p. 345; C. $ S. no 1000." 

 Enome detersa, Wlk. Cat. xxxii, p. 365 ; Swinh. P. /.. .v. 1 ss'>, i,l. i 1 . 



figs. 3, 4 ; C. 4- S. no. 1029. 

 Lymantria costalis, Wlk. Cat. xxxii, p. 365; C. $ S. no. 1006. 



c?. Head, thorax, and abdomen red-brown; a (rim-on lino 

 behind the head ; abdomen banded with crimson ; legs spot ted with 

 black and marked with crimson. Fore wing greyish brown ; a black 

 subbasal line with some spots beyond it ; an antemedial \\a\rd 

 line ; a spot at middle of cell and lunule at end of it ; a difl'used 

 postmedial band and double waved postmedial line, tin- outer line 

 more or less obsolescent. Hind wing brown, \\ith an indistinct 

 waved postmedial line ; an elongate black mark near anal angle ; 

 cilia of both wings spotted with black. 



The form detersa is pale and small (36 millim.). 



$. Head, thorax, and aborted wings whitish, tin- last \\ith 

 traces of markings ; abdomen very large and l>n>\\ n. 



Hob. Throughout S. India and Ceylon. E.vp., J 36-54 millim. 



1028. Lymantria ampla, in/.-. Cat. iv, p. 883; Moore, L, r . /;. / < 



pi. 9 a, fig. 4, and pi. 15, tigs. 7, 7 a, 8, 8 a (larva ) ; ('. \ x. DO. 1( 128, 



c? . Differs from incerta in being much yellower bnrnn, and 

 without crimson on head, abdomen, or legs. 



? . Head, thorax, and aborted wings white, spotted with black ; 

 abdomen blackish. 



Larva brown, clothed with tufts of short hair and long hair 

 from the anterior and posterior somites ; male with a pah' subdorsal 

 line and dorsal and sublateral white spots ; female w ith black 

 dorsal spots and a white spot on 9th somite. Head and legs 

 ochreous. 



Hob. Throughout India, Ceylon, and Burma. E<rp. 40 millim. 



SECT. II. Female with less aborted wings ; hind wings of male 

 with inner margin short. 



1029. Lymantria obfuscata, Wlk. Cat,, xxxii, p. 367; C.S>> & no. 1013. 

 c? . Differs from ampla in being greyish brown ; fore wing w ith 



