300 lieut.-col. c. swinhoe on the lepidoptera [mar. 17, 



94. Enome ampla. 



Enome ampla, Walker, iv. p. 883. 

 Poona, October. 



95. Enome incerta. 



Lymantria incerta, Walker, iv. p. 880. 

 Sattara, June. 



96. Enome detersa. (Plate XXI. figs. 3 c? , 4 $ .) 

 Lymantria detersa. Walker, xxxii. p. 36.5. 



Poona, October, very plentiful ; Belgaum, September ; Sattara, 

 November. 



As Mr. Butler stated (P. Z. S. 1883, p. 156, u. 45) that the 

 female of this species was unknown, I got Mr. Taplin, at Poona, to 

 pay particular attention to the subject : and by digging and hunting 

 for pupae at the foot and in the bark of the Acacia arabica, where 

 the male moth is found in great abundance, we were successful at 

 last ; a fat pupa produced a fat black apterous grub-like moth, and 

 round the breeding-cage Mr. Taplin that night caught over three 

 hundred males all trying to get at this female. 



Subsequently he obtained an impregnated moth and tried to rear 

 the larvae, but a sudden change in the weather killed them all. I 

 was away from Poona at the time, and Mr. Taplin kept no drawings. 

 The larvse feed on babool {Acacia arabica). 



I have the two pupa-cases of both the females in my collection. 



This insect is very plentiful above the Ghats, but I never observed 

 it in Bombay. Walker's type came from N. India, not from the 

 Mauritius, as is stated in his work. 



97. Lymantria obsoleta. 



S . Lymantria obsoleta. Walker, iv. p. 880. 



Poona, February and September ; Matheran, ^lay ; Bombay, 

 October. 



The female is very much larger than the male, expanse of wings 

 being, S 1^^, $ 2 j% inch ; the coloration and markings are similar. 

 Walker's type must, however, have been a faded specimen, because the 

 abdomen in both sexes, when fresh, is of a deep pinkish red, and not 

 of a slight rosy tinge as described by him ; the basal portion of the 

 hind wings is also rosy, and sometimes nearly the whole of the hind 

 wing is of that colour. 



The larvse feed on Ficus indicus ; they turn pupse at the foot of the 

 tree, the pupae being always found suspended in a net like the pupre 

 of Perina basalis. 



98. Lymantria fuliginosa. 



Lymantria fuliginosa, Moore, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 17. 

 Bombay, August to December, very common. 



