76 LYMANTEIID^. 



Lymantria rosea. (Plate CLVIII. fig. 28.) 



Expanse (J 2 inches. 



Male. Fore wing white, with the black markings exactly similar to those of L. siiperans, 

 except that the postmedial lunulate band is single and without the diffused broad band 

 inside it. Hind wing rosy pink, with a broad fuscous outer border. Head and thorax 

 white, with the usual black spots ; the first joint of anteunse white, not pink as in L. grandis ; 

 the collar slightly pink, but not as much so as in L. grandis ; abdomen pink, with dorsal 

 black spots and ventral segmental bauds. 



Lopera* fulvipuncta. (Plate CLIX. figs. 2, 8, & Plate CLXXV. fig. 14 (larva).) 



Expanse, J" 1, ? \^ inch. 



Male and Female. Pure white. Fore wing with a yellow spot at end of cell ; a subapical 

 yellow spot, sometimes with a smaller one above it, which may be present or absent in 

 either sex. 



Female with a bi'ownish-yellow anal tuft. 



Larva. Deep blue-black ; a narrow pale grey spiracular stripe ; the first somite with a 

 short tubercle on each side, giving rise to a loose tuft of blackish hairs ; a lateral fasciculus 

 of long whitish hairs on second to eleventh somites ; the second and third somites each with 

 a dorsal pair of stiff white hairs and a similar pair on the tenth somite, the fourth to eighth 

 somites each with four thick brush-like brownisli tufts forming a transverse band across the 

 somite ; the eighth to tenth somites each with four similar but smaller dark orange tufts ; 

 the eleventh with four small mouse-coloured tufts ; the eighth and ninth each with a small 

 pale yellow dorsal tubercle. 



Length 8 lines. Feeds on Litzea zeylanica. 



Artaxa* cervina, Moore. (Plate CLVIII. fig. 16.) 



Artaxa cervina, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. ii. p. 86. 



Expanse $ l/; inch. 



Female. Fore wing imiform pale ochreous. Hind wing paler. Head and thorax bright 

 ochreous ; abdomen brownish ; anal tuft grey. 



Euproctis fraterna, Moore. (Plate CLXXVI. fig. 2 (larva).) 

 Artaxa fraterna, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. ii. p. 85. 



Larva. Head crimson ; the first somite with a prominent blackish tubercle on each side, 



* This is a Bynonym of Kupfoctis. 



