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Genus Lymantria, Hubn. 

 Lymantria rufojmnctata. 



Mas. — Alba, crassa, capite thoraceque flavescente tinctis, ab- 

 dominis apice cervino dense lanuginoso, alls anticis fasciis 

 tribus indistinctis macularibus pallida flavescentibus, punctis 

 quatuor ochraceo-riifis, pilis apiid marginem interiorem longis 

 clavatis flavis. 



Male. — White, thick, Flead and thorax with a yellowish tinge. 

 Antennae moderately pectinated. Abdomen at the tip fawn-colour 

 and densely lanuginous. Fore-wings with three indistinct macular 

 pale-yellowish bands and with four orange-red points, of which 

 one is in the fore part of the disk, one near the exterior border, 

 and two near the interior angle ; interior border with long clavate 

 yellow hairs. 



Length of the body 10 lines ; of the wings 22 lines. 



Natal. 



Genus CoLussA, Walk. 



In the Museum list of Lepidoptera — Heterocera, — some species 

 of Colussa have been included erroneously with Darala, and it 

 would seem that nearly all the QLnochromidce should be transferred 

 from the Geometrites to the Liparidce, or should form a family of 

 Bombycites. 



Colussa varia. 



Darala varia, Cat. Lep. 1st Ser. iv. 890. 



Var. Mas. — Sub-purpurascente cinerea, abdomine sub-cervino 

 apice nigro, alis linea interiore angulosa obscure purpura- 

 scente, linea exteriore flava intus purpurascente marginata, 

 fascia adhuc exteriore purpurascente lineam nigram angu- 

 losam includente, alis anticis punctis duobus discalibus nigris, 

 linea interiore ex parte duplicata. Var. Minor, alis linea 

 interiore sub-obsoleta, fascia pallide rufescente, alis anticis 

 punctis discalibus purpureo-marginatis. 



Var. Male. — Cinereous, with a slight purplish tinge. Legs pur- 

 plish, speckled with black. Abdomen slightly fawn-coloured; 

 tip black. Wings with an interior zigzag dark purplish line, 

 which is partly double in the fore-wings ; exterior line yellow, 

 bordered with purplish on the inner side, contiguous on the outer 

 side to a purplish band, which includes a black zigzag line ; fringe 

 yellowish. Fore-wings with two black discal points ; the band 



