40G 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, rf 1 inch, 5 l-j^iy-ly^j inch. 



Hub. Jurruk, Kotree, Sonda, Tatta, Karachi, all in Lower Siud ; 

 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 s^pecies 

 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. Antennae, 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, 

 tibiae with brown and rosy bands. 



Female with wing-markings much like $ L. grandis ; antennae 

 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 L. 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 lunnlar mark, 

 which fills up the end of the cell and bifurcates on the custa ; sub- 

 marginal 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 ; tibiae white in centre, black at the joints ; 

 tarsi crimson, with black bands and black claws. 



Expanse of wings, S If'o i"ch, ? 3 j^-3f\j inches. 



Hab. Thanna district, near Bombay ; two males and many females, 

 taken by me in November 1888, in the Wangui Forest. 



