56 LIPARIDA.. 
middle, a diffused submarginal band, and a series of spots on the fringe blackish: body below 
white; coxz and femora black, tibiz and tarsi banded with black; venter with a series of 
black spots on each side. Expanse of wings 2 inches 1 line. 
?. White; the wings marked as in the preceding species, but the lines more sharply 
defined ; thorax white, spotted as in the male; abdomen white; under surface white, the 
markings less defined than above, Expanse of wings 2 inches 7 lines, 
Darjiling, 
Lymantria marginata, (Plate XC. fig. 12.) 
Lymantria marginata, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. iv. p. 877. n. 11 (1855), 
Creamy white: the primaries traversed by brown dentate-sinuate bands of the same 
character as in L. monacha, but considerably broader ; no subbasal spots: secondaries with a 
broad brown border: back of collar and antenne blackish ; abdomen ochreous, with large 
blackish dorsal spots ; basal third of costa and part of the central band and external border 
filled in with brown: secondaries with the commencement of a double brown band from the 
costa beyond the middle to the median vein; a broad brown external border, upon which are 
two or three small white spots. Body below ochraceous ; legs black, banded with white ; 
venter with lateral series of black spots, Expanse of wings 2 inches 8 lines. 
Silhet. 
Lymantria cara. (Plate XC. fig. 13.) 
?. Primaries above snow-white, the costal area crossed by five abbreviated oblique 
angulated bands, the first basal, the third almost joining a blackish v-shaped marking at the 
end of the cell, the fourth joining a deeply-dentated discal line which joins the central furca, 
of a very irregular trifurcate character, on the internal border; traces of a submarginal undu- 
lated line, best defined on second median interspace, where it takes the form of a large 
lunated black spot; a marginal series of black spots: secondaries sordid white, with a sub- 
marginal series of almost confluent pale brown lunated spots ; a marginal series of dark-brown 
spots: thorax white, spotted with black; sides of head yellow, front of collar orange; abdo- 
men white at base, otherwise pink, with carmine margins to the segments and lateral tufts ; 
anal segment sparsely clothed at the extremity with yellow hairs. Wings below white, with 
sordid borders ; primaries with black costal and marginal spots ; a pale sandy brown submar- 
ginal stripe and traces of a discal one: secondaries with the upper part of the discocellulars 
dark brown; a pale brown arched sinuated discal stripe, and a similar but longer submarginal 
one; a marginal series of darker brown spots: body below dark brown ; pectus with rose- 
coloured lateral tufts; tibiz of middle pair of legs white, banded with black, with broad 
external fringe similarly coloured ; venter with abbreviated rose-red bands widening as they 
approach the anal segment, which is bright yellow im the centre; a marginal series of carmine 
tufts. Expanse of wings 3 inches 2 lines. 
?, Bhotan (Lidderdale). © (?), Borneo, 
