870 CATALOGUE OF 



]4. DASYCHIRA LEUCOPHJ3A. 



Mas. Obscure fusca ; alee anticce fasciis tribus ferrugineis (la et 

 2a nigra marginatis) necnon litura discali alteraque subapicafi 

 albidis ; posticce ferrugineo marginatce. Fcem. — Ferruginea ; 

 alee anticce cinerea, apud medium albidce , fasciis tribus ferru- 

 gineis, la fusca alboque marginata, 2a Saque connexis fusco 

 marginatis ; posticce ferruginece, fascia latissima cinerea. 



Orgyia leucophaea, Hubn. Samml. Exot. Schmett. ii. Lep. iii. 

 Phal. ii. Verce, iv. Dasychirce B. Canescentes, i. f. 1 — 4. 



Male. Dark brown. Fore wings with three ferruginous bands; 

 first and second bordered with black ; first at one-third of the length 

 of the wing ; second beyond two-thirds of the length ; third along 

 the exterior border, with black dots ; a whitish mark at the tip of 

 the discal areolet, and another near the tip of the wing. Hind 

 wings with a ferruginous border. Fern. — Ferruginous. Fore wings 

 gray, mostly whitish in the middle and along the exterior border, 

 which is ferruginous ; three ferruginous bands ; first bordered with 

 white and brown ; second bordered with brown ; third short, very 

 oblique, connected at its hind end with the second in the disk of the 

 wing ; some brown along its inner side. Hind wings pale ferrugi- 

 nous, with a very broad gray middle band. 



Genus 56. LYMANTRIA 



Mas et fcem. Corpus robustum aut sat gracile. Palpi medio- 

 criter longi, caput paullo superantes ; articulus 2us lo fere quad- 

 ruplo longior; 3us conicus, minimus. Pedes validi, tibiae posticas 

 calcaribus quatuor parvis. Alae longiusculae, sat latae. Mas. — 

 Corpus gracilius. Antennae late aut latissime pectinatae. Abdomen 

 alas posticas non superans. Alae saepe latiores. Fcem. — Corpus 

 magis crassum. Antennae serratae aut subpectinatae, breviores. 

 Abdomen alas posticas paullo superans, apice nonnunquam acumi- 

 natum, nonnunquam obtusum et dense lanuginosum. 



Phalaena-Bombyx, Linn. ; Berk. ; Don. ; Stew. ; Turt. 



Phalaena, Wilkes. 



Bombyx, p., Fabr. ; Hubn. ; Flaw. ; God. 



Laria, p., Schr. 



Hypogymna, p., Hubn. 



Lymantria, Hubn. Verz. Schmett. 160. Steph. Cat. Brit. Lep. 49. 



Liparis, p., Ochs. ; Boisd. 



Porthetria, p., Hubn. Verz. Schmett. 160. 



Porthetria, Westw. 



