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exterior line. Hind wings with a rosy tinge on the apical part of 

 the fringe and along the interior border. Length of the body 

 1\ lines ; of the wings 16 lines. 



a. Hindostan. Presented by Sir J. Hearsey. 



Lymantria obfuscata. 



Mas. Cinereo-ferruginea ; palpi porrecti, sat graciles, caput vix 

 superantes ; abdomen obscure ochraceum ; alte anticce fasciis 

 duabus lineaque transversa angulosa f us cis, fascia la lituram 

 discalem nigricantem includente, 2a marginalia guttis duabus 

 basalibus lineaque transversa angulosa nigricantibus ; postica? 

 obscure ochracea, fusco marginata. 



Male. Cinereous-ferruginous. Palpi porrect, rather slender, 

 hardly extending beyond the head ; third joint very minute. An- 

 tennae very broadly pectinated. Abdomen, fore wings beneath and 

 hind wings dark ochraceous. Abdomen tapering from the base to 

 the tip ; apical tuft small. Fore wings with two brown bands; first 

 across the middle, including a blackish discal mark; second mar- 

 ginal, partly connected on its inner side with a zigzag transverse 

 brown line; a blackish transverse angular line between the first 

 band and the base, where there are two blackish dots. Hind wings 

 with a narrow brown border. Length of the body 6 lines ; of the 

 wings 16 lines. 



a. North Hindostan. Presented by Capt. Strachey. 



Lymantria amplipennis. 



Foem. Alba; palpi oblique ascendentes, extus nigri, articulo So 

 conico ; alaz latissima, punctis marginalibus nigris ; anticce 

 annulo interrupto lineisque quatuor obliquis undulatis e 

 lunulis nigris; poslicm abdomen longe superantes, margine 

 exteriore flexo. 



Female. White. Palpi obliquely ascending, black on the 

 outer side, not rising higher than the vertex ; third joint conical, 

 less than one-sixth of the length of the second. Antennae black, 

 moderately pectinated. Tarsi and fore tibiae mostly black. Wings 

 very broad, with black marginal points. Fore wings rounded at the 

 tips, with an incomplete black ringlet in the discal areolet, and with 

 four irregular oblique undulating lines composed of somewhat widely 

 apart black lunules; exterior border slightly convex, rather oblique. 

 Hind wings extending much beyond the abdomen ; exterior border 



