LYMANTRIA. 5d 
LYMANTRIA, Hiibn. 
Lymantria concolor. (Plate XC. figs. 8 & 9.) 
Q. Lymantria concolor, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. iv. p. 876. n. 9 (1855). 
6. Primaries pale sulphur-yellow, crossed by irregular dentate-sinuate black lines and 
by black subbasal spots, also with a series of large black. costal spots, and with the fringe 
interrupted by black dashes, almost exactly as in the European L. monacha: secondaries grey, 
slightly brownish towards the base and abdominal margin; costal area crossed by white 
patches ; two curved parallel discal series of white spots ; a marginal series; fringe dusky, 
interrupted by large snow-white spots: thorax pale sulphur-yellow, spotted with black ; 
antenne dark brown; abdomen rose-red, with whitish anal tuft. Primaries below with the 
basal two thirds partly greyish brown, obscuring to a certain extent the dentate-sinuate lines, 
the latter are also all brown instead of black; costal border spotted with black as above : 
secondaries brown, the spots of the upper surface sharply defined, cream-coloured ; base 
cream-coloured, crossed by an oblique brown stripe: pectus black; tibiz fringed with cream- 
colour ; tarsi cream-coloured, banded with black ; venter cream-coloured, with the sides, 
anterior margins of the segments, and anal tuft blackish. Expanse of wings 2 inches 2 lines. 
2. Primaries above cream-coloured, with all the markings much more slender than in 
the male, but similar in character: secondaries snow-white; two subapical costal dashes, an 
indistinct curved line on the discocellulars, and traces of a submarginal sinuated line grey: 
thorax cream-coloured ; the palpi, a spot at the back of the head, the centre of the collar, 
a dorsal longitudinal stripe on the thorax, a spot on metathorax, and a spot on each 
tegula black: abdomen ochreous, white at the base; the last three or four segments with 
central brown and lateral black spots. Wings below white, with cream-coloured costal 
borders: primaries with all the markings upon the basal two thirds ill defined, only seen 
through the texture of the wing, excepting upon the costal border, where they are black : 
secondaries with the subapical and discocellular markings well defined and brown: body 
below cream-coloured ; legs black, the tibiz fringed and banded with white; venter ochreous, 
spotted with black at the sides. Expanse of wings 3 inches 5 lines. 
Darjiling. 
Lymantria superans, (Plate XC. figs. 10 & 11.) 
@. Lymantria superans, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. iv. p. 876. n. 10 (1855). 
&. Similar to the male of the preceding species, but the primaries with the ground- 
colour pure white instead of sulphur-yellow; the secondaries with the white spots, excepting 
on the fringe, extremely ill-defined: thorax cream-coloured, spotted with black ; abdomen 
rose-red, with a dorsal series of dusky spots. Primaries below much less obscured by brown, 
excepting upon the costal border, which is brown to the end of the cell: secondaries white, 
the abdominal border sordid ; an irregular curved dentate-sinuate band from the costa to the 
median vein; a curved dentate-sinuate stripe beyond the cell, the costal border beyond the 
