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wing with narrow brown marginal band. Thorax brown. Palpi 

 and legs brown-streaked. Underside brighter-coloured. 



Expanse 1-J- inch. 



Sab. Canara, S. India {Ward). In coll. F. Moore. 



Lymantria sinica, n. sp. 



Male greyish brown : fore wing crossed by darker zigzag inner 

 bands, and an outer broader lunular whitish speckled band ; an 

 angled blackish streak at end of the cell, and a marginal series of 

 small spots : hind wing with indistinct darker marginal band. Un- 

 derside paler, with very indistinct costal and marginal spots, and a 

 spot at end of the cell. Thorax brown, collar red. Abdomen reddish- 

 tinged. Palpi dusky black at the side. Legs with black bands. 



Expanse If to If inch. 



Uab. N. China (Shanghai) and Formosa. In coll. F. Moore. 



Lymantria albolunulata, n. sp. 



Male and Female. Greyish brown, darkest in female : fore wing 

 crossed by indistinct, black-speckled, sinuous bands, and marginal 

 row of spots, the outer band lunular and white-speckled ; a promi- 

 nent black-angled mark at end of the cell, a narrow streak before 

 it, and broader straight streak below the cell : hind wing with in- 

 distinct maculated marginal border and cilia. Thorax dark brown, 

 with slight red collar. Abdomen reddish, with brownish bands. 

 Underside pale brown, with blackish costal and marginal spots, and 

 indistinct angled mark at end of the cell. Palpi reddish and black 

 at the side. Legs slightly reddish and black-streaked. 



Expanse, S 1-f. $ 2g inch. 



Sab. Simla, Dharmsala, N.W. Himalaya. In coll. F. Moore. 



Fam. Notodontid^e. 

 Moma champa, n. sp. (Plate XXXIII. fig. 2.) 



Male and Female. Cinereous white, slightly vinous-tinted in the 

 male. Cilia alternated with black. Fore wing with black basal and 

 costal zigzag streaks, a double subbasal and discal transverse sinuous 

 lines, the intermediate space streaked and spotted, and suffused with 

 black hindward ; an oval ringlet near end of the cell ; a submarginal 

 interrupted broader sinuous line, and marginal row of short, narrow, 

 straight, longitudinal streaks : hind wing dusky at the apex, yellow- 

 ish on abdominal border, veins externally and a marginal line black. 

 Head and thorax white, transversely black-streaked. Abdomen yel- 

 lowish, with dorsal row of black and white tufted spots ; apical tuft 

 white in male. Underside — -fore wing blackish anteriorly, costa 

 white-spotted : hind wing with short black apical and discal band, 

 costal streak, a small spot at end of the cell, and veins externally 

 black. Palpi white, the tip and a lateral streak black. Legs white 

 with black bands. Allied to M. ludifica, of Europe. 



Expanse, d If. 2 If inch. 



Sab. Dharmsala, N.W. Himalaya. In coll. F. Moore. 



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