56 LIPARIME. 



middle, a diffused submarginal band, and a series of 6pots on the fringe blackish : body below 

 white ; coxae and femora black, tibiae 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. Eet. 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 antennae 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 ; tibia? 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 in the centre ; a marginal series of carmine 

 tufts. Expanse of wings 3 inches 2 lines. 



?, Bhotan {Lidderdale) . J 1 (?), Borneo. 



