74 LASIOCAMPID. 
Lebeda nobilis, (Plate C. figs. 5 & 6.) 
Lebeda nobilis, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. vi. p. 1456. n. 3 (1855). 
Primaries above pale reddish brown, crossed by four whity-brown stripes, the second and 
third forming the boundaries of a broad belt which gradually expands towards the costa, 
fuliginous brown in the male, slightly darker than the ground-colour in the female, in both 
sexes enclosing a snow-white conical discoidal stigma; the third line is bordered externally 
by a diffused dusky stripe ; external border fuliginous, its inner margin very irregular, limited 
above the lower radial vein by a dark nebulous streak, distinct in the male and uniting with 
a longitudinal dark streak which fills the lower radial interspace, below the lower radial it is 
limited by a whitish border and on the interno-median interspace by two pale-bordered black 
spots: secondaries above ferruginous, darker towards the abdominal margin (almost black in 
the male), crossed in the middle by two whity-brown stripes; fringe white : body above pale 
brown, darker behind the collar; basal segments of abdomen in the male purplish brown, 
anal segment dull testaceous ; antenne testaceous. Wings below with the basal three fifths 
in the male chocolate-brown, limited by a whitish curved stripe; external area greyish, 
crossed by a reddish-brown discal belt enclosing a whitish stripe ; excavated portion of the 
costal border of the secondaries in the male greyish white; the discoidal stigma of the 
primaries indistinctly visible; basal area of the female no darker than the rest of the wing, 
limited externally by a ferruginous stripe ; other markings less defined than in the male, the 
stigma of the primaries obsolete: body below altogether darker than the wings, purplish 
brown in the male. Expanse of wings, g 4 inches 10 lines, ? 5 inches 11 lines. 
Nepal (Hardwicke) ; Silhet (Stainsforth). 
Specimens slightly differimg from the type were obtained at Darjiling by Dr. Lidderdale. 
