878 CATALOGUE OF 



13. Lymantria Brotea. 

 Alba; antenna fulvce ; aim anticce fasciis quatuor angustis obliquis 

 subundulosis guttisque costalibus discalibus et exterioribus 

 fulvis. 

 Phalaena-Bombyx Brotea, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. 68, pi. 322, f. E. 

 Prothetria Brotea, Hubn. Verz. Schmett. (Phalana Vera Leucoma 



Undata), 160, 1666 

 Coromandel. Amboina. 



14. Lymantria Ascetria. 

 Mas. Albida; caput macula nigra apud marginem posticum 

 rufescentem ; palpi basi nigri ; thorax e guttis nigris unifas- 

 ciatus ; abdomen rufescens, e maculis nigris trivittatum ; pedes 

 ex parte rufescentes, supra nigro maculati ; alee pallide sub- 

 cervinoe, anticce guttis marginalibus nigris fasciisque tribus 

 obliquis angulosis fuscis ; postica fascia submarginali guttis- 

 que marginalibus fuscis. 



Lymantria Ascetria, Hubn. Samml. Exot. Schmett. ii. Lep. iii. 

 PhaL ii. Vera, iii. Leucoma B. Undata, 2, f. 1 — 4. 



Male. Whitish. Head with a black spot on the hind border, 

 which is reddish. Palpi black towards the base. Thorax with a 

 band of four black dots. Abdomen reddish, with three stripes of 

 black spots. Legs partly reddish, with black spots above. Wings 

 more or less slightly tinged with very pale fawn-colour. Fore wings 

 with black dots at the base, along the costa, and by the exterior 

 margin, between which and the black lunate mark there are three 

 zigzag oblique brown bands. Hind wings with a brown submargi- 

 nal band, which is accompanied by brown marginal dots; under side 

 with a brown discal spot. This species has great resemblance to 

 L. Monacha, but may be distinguished by the black dots across the 

 thorax, by the black marks at the base of the fore wings, and by the 

 zigzag bands, which are more regular and less oblique. The 

 difference between the two species is more decided on the underside 

 of the wings, where L. duplex has no trace of the brown bands 

 which distinguish L. Monacha. Length of the body 7 lines ; of the 

 wings 18 lines. 



a. East Indies. From Archdeacon Clerk's collection. 



b. Java. From the East India Company's collection. 



