PAROEGYIA., — LTMANTKIA. 



PARORGYIA, Pack. 



Parorgyia dalbergiae. (Plate CXXIII. figs. 9-11.) 

 Dasychira dalbergiae, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1888, p. 399. 



Allied to P. inclusa. Primaries dull copper-brown, with a faintly indicated, paler, sub- 

 basal spot ; aa angulated, black-edged, pale marking at the end of the cell, two or three black 

 spots at base ; a cluster of whitish scales before the middle of the costa ; an undulated black 

 line, white-edged on the costa, bounding a discal series of black-pupilled, oval, pale brown 

 spots ; a marginal series of pale-bordered, subconieal, black spots : secondaries whitv 

 brown: thorax slightly greyer than the primaries; abdomen whity brown, with blackish 

 dorsal tnfts on the basal segments. Under surface whity brown : discoidal area of 

 primaries greyish ; a grey spot at the end of the cell and an oblique grey stripe starting 

 just beyond the third fourth of the costal margin and crossing the disc to the first median 

 branch ; a scries of grey spots on the fringe : secondaries with a minute greyish dash at the 

 end of the cell and a subangulated, grey, discal stripe at third fourth : palpi, front of pectus, 

 and anterior legs smoky brown. Expanse of wings 37 millim. 



? . Considerably larger than the male : the primaries more elongated ; the discocellular 

 spot and the pale discal spots widened, confluent ; the submarginal black pupils of the 

 marginal spots modified into lunules and with white inner edges : antenna; and front legs 

 sprinkled with whitish scales. Expanse of wings 66 millim. 



Kangra valley. 



(J, var. ? Broader and much darker than the type: the primaries irrorated with white; 

 a conspicuous white subbasal spot ; black centres of the discal series of spots more prominent, 

 partly white-edged ; submarginal, white-edged, blackish lunules more nearly as in the 

 female ; the discal stripe on under surface of all the wings further from the outer margin. 

 Expanse of wings 41 millim. 



Kangra valley. 



The caterpillar of this species (see Plate CXXXVIII. fig. 12) is of a brown colour and is 

 considerably more like that of Oryyia than of Dasychira. 



LYMANTRIA, Hubn. 



Lymantria nigra. (Plate CXXIII. figs. 2, 3.) 



Lymantria nigra, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1888, p. 309. 



Near to L. marginata, Walk., from Silhet and Darjiling. The male much darker owing 

 to the fact that all the brown intervals between the black lines on the primaries are much 

 narrower and of a deeper brown colour. The female differs in the greater width and 

 consequent confluence of the black lines across the primaries ; the secondaries sometimes have 



