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of cell ; both wings with, a marginal row of small black spots. Thorax black spotted ; 

 abdomen in male with a dorsal and lateral row of black spots. Legs hoary above. 



Expanse, $ 1|-, 2 2f inches. 



Larva pale sap-green, with short blackish and brown hairs, the anterior and 

 posterior brown hairs projected forward ; the lateral tufts arising from three rows of 

 red tubercles ; along the back are some slender white lines and along the side three 

 similar lines, a whitish spot also in front of each dorsal tuft of hair ; head and legs 

 purple-brown. Pupa greenish or bluish-green, hairy, marked with black speckled 

 lines on head and front and spotted marks on dorsal and abdominal segment. 



^' YeediS 0^ Dysoxylon." (Thivaites.) 



Genus LYMANTRIA. 

 Lymantria, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Sohmett. p. 160 (1818-25). 

 Psilura, Stephens, Illust. Brit. Ent. Haust. ii. p. 57 (1828). 



Forewing triangular, elongated in female ; first subcostal vein emitted at one- 

 eighth before end of the cell, second fi-om end of the cell, quadrifid, third at one-fifth 

 from base of second, fourth at one-third from the apex, fifth from below third close 

 to its base ; cell broad ; discocellular acutely bent in the middle, radial from upper 

 end of the cell ; two upper medians from angle at end of the cell, second at one- 

 seventh, first or lower at three-sevenths before the end ; submedian slightly recurved : 

 hindwing short, triangular, exterior margin convex ; cell broad ; two subcostals from 

 end of the cell ; discocellular bent before the middle ; three upper medians from 

 contiguous angles at end of the cell, first or lower at one-third before the end ; 

 submedian and internal vein straight. Body moderately slender, hairy, tufted at 

 apex in male, rather short and attenuated at apex and with exserted ovipositor in 

 female ; palpi porrect, hairy, clavate, second joint long, projected beyond the head, 

 third joint minute, pointed at tip ; antennae short, broadly bipectinated in male, with 

 short broad branches in female; legs hairy, hind tibiee with four spurs. 

 Type, L. monacha. 



LYMANTRIA GRANDIS. 



Lymantria grandis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. iv. p. 874 (1855), g ; Butler, Types Lep. Het. 

 B. M. V. p. 57, pi. 91, fig. 1, 2, ^ 2. 



Lymantria maculosa. Walker, id. iv. p. 881 (1855), $. 



Lymantria mefarhoda, Walker, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. (1861), p. 78, $ . 



Male : forewing ochreous-white, crossed by three basal brown macular bands, 

 three obhque discal sinuous bands, an interrupted submarginal sinuous band, and a 

 marginal row of spots ; a bent lunular mark at end of the cell, and a spot in middle 

 of the cell ; two black spots at base of the wing : hindwing pinkish-red, with an 

 indistinct pale brown submarginal slender band ; a lunular spot at end of the cell. 

 Thorax and head white, black spotted ; abdomen pinkish-red, with two lateral rows 



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