464 



LTMANTEIlD.i:. 



Hob. Throughout India and Ceylon ; Java. Ki*p., tf 54, 

 68 millim. 



1037. Lymantria grisea, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 55, pi. iii, tig. 5 ; C.# 



no. 1009. 



<5. Head and thorax pale brown; abdomen whitish. Fore 

 wing pale brown, with numerous indistinct dark lunulate lines, 

 the most distinct being two irregular submarginal lines with \\liit- 

 lunules between them ; a dark mark on discocellulars. Hind \\ iui; 

 yellowish white, with an indistinct marginal fuscous band. 



Hab. Sikhiin. Exp. 42 millim. 



1038. Lymantria mathura, Moore, P. 7.. S. 1865, p. 805 ; C. $ S. 



no. 1026. 

 Lymantria aurora, Butl. A. M. N. If. (4) xx, p. 403. 



c? . Differs from beatrix in the black spots on vertex of abdomen 

 being small ; the ground-colour of fore wing paler ; the hind wing 



Fig. 315. Lt/manfria matJiura. \. 



orange, with a black spot at end of cell and conjoined series of 

 submarginal spots forming a curved band ; some spots on centre 

 of outer margin. 



$ . Head and thorax white ; frons fuscous ; two black spots each 

 on collar, meso- and metathorax j palpi, antennal tuft, and two spots 

 on mesothorax crimson ; abdomen crimson, with small black spots 



