74 LASIOCAMPID^E. 



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; antennae 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, £ 4 inches 10 lines, $ 5 inches 11 lines. 



Nepal (Hardwicke) ; Silhet (Stainsforth) . 



Specimens slightly differing from the type were obtained at Darjiling by Dr. Lidderdale. 



