406 COL. C. SWINHOE ON NEW [Nov. 5, 
which curve outwardly, and are only apparent on some specimens. 
Underside pale greyish white tinged with flesh-colour, unmarked. 
Expanse of wings, ¢ 1 inch, 9 1,%,—1;4) inch. 
Hab. Jurruk, Kotree, Sonda, Tatta, Karachi, all in Lower Sind; 
many examples taken in April 1886. 
A desert insect taken in sandy scrub, and very much the colour of 
dirty sand. It may be distinguished from all other described species 
of Somena by the fore wing being covered with black atoms, and 
by the absence of the marginal yellow spots. 
LyMANTRIA VIOLA, n. sp. 
Male. Antenne, palpi, head, thorax, and fore wings grey; ab- 
domen and hind wings rosy ; palpi below and at the tips, a line on 
the inner side of the eye, and a thin line in front of the collar rosy ; 
the grey on the thorax of a purer and paler colour than that of the 
fore wings, and spotted with blackish brown; abdomen with a dorsal 
row of black spots; fore wings covered with transverse, sinuous, 
blackish-brown bands, more or less macular on the basal half of the 
wing, the prominent medial (sinuous) and submarginal (dentated) 
bands of the female distinguishable in the male, and also a row of 
marginal brown spots. 
Hind wing with a greyish-brown spot at end of cell and sub- 
marginal band of same colour, which does not reach the hinder 
angle; also indistinct spots on the margin between the veins. 
Underside pale rosy grey, a grey spot at end of each cell; body 
rosy, a row of brown spots on each side of abdomen; femora rosy, 
tibie with brown and rosy bands. 
Female with wing-markings much like Q ZL. grandis; antennze 
black, palpi and thin line in front of collar bright crimson, lines on 
inside of eyes ochreous; head, thorax, and fore wing white; abdomen 
and hind wing rosy, two central rosy spots behind collar, some 
blackish-brown spots on the centre of thorax; fore wings with the 
bands as in Z. grandis, but thinner and paler, of a pale reddish- 
brown colour, two or three spots at the base, a subbasal outwardly 
curved band, a spot on the costa, another below it, and a mark near 
hinder margin representing the antemedial band ; medial band nearly 
upright, sinuous, very narrow, curving outside the lunular mark, 
which fills up the end of the cell and bifurcates on the costa; sub- 
margimal band of disconnected spear-shaped marks, very minute 
marginal spots between the veins, marginal line rosy. 
Hind wing with a lunular greyish-brown mark at end of cell, a 
submarginal band as in male, minute marginal spots between the 
veins, and dark rosy outer margin. 
Underside paler, with the markings showing through ; body white, 
sides rosy ; abdomen rosy, with two or three small brown spots on 
the sides ; femora crimson ; tibize white in centre, black at the joints ; 
tarsi crimson, with black bands and black claws. 
Expanse of wings, d' 1,% inch, 9 3,%,-3,°; inches. 
Hab. Thanna district, near Bombay ; two males and many females, 
taken by me in November 1888, in the Wangni Forest. 
