462 LYMANTKIID.E. 



1032. Lymantria ascetria, Hubn. Samml. exot. Schmett. ii, Thai. ver. 

 figs. 1-4; C. $8. no. 1001. 

 Lymantria praniestra, Moore, Lep. E. I. Co. p. 341, pi. ix a, fig. 3. 



<$ . Head and thorax white ; antennae black ; a crimson line 

 behind the head ; tegulse with a black spot ; abdomen crimson, 

 with fuscous spots on vertex and fringe to the segments. Tore 

 wing white ; two black spots at base and curved subbasal series ; 

 an antemedial waved fuscous line arising from a black spot on 

 costa ; a black speck near end of cell and lunule at end ; two post- 

 medial and one submarginal lunulate fuscous lines arising from 

 black spots on the costa, the two former approaching each other 

 towards inner margin ; a series of marginal black spots. Hind 

 wing white, with submarginal fuscous band and marginal series of 

 spots. 



2 • Head, thorax, and abdomen suffused with brown. Pore 

 wing wholly suffused with brown, except the costal area and some 

 white diffused along the lines ; the markings considerably obscured. 

 Hind wing often suffused with pale fuscous. 



Hob. Moulmein ; Tavoy ; Java. Exp., 6 46, $ 52-70 millim. 



1033. Lymantria concolor, Wlk. Cat. iv, p. 876 ; Butt. III. Set, v, 

 pi. 90, figs. 9, 10 ; C. $ S. no. 1005. 

 Lymantria superans, Wlk. Cat. iv, p. 876 ; C. 8f S. no. 1019. 

 Lymantria carnecolor, Moore, P. Z. S. 1888, p. 399; C. fy S. 



no. 1004 a. 

 Lymantria micans, Feld. Rets. Nov. pi. 99, fig. 2 ; C. fy 8. no. 1011. 



S ■ Differs from ascetria in the head and thorax being marked 

 with black. Fore wing with the markings black ; the antemedial 

 line much more irregularly waved, and with a black streak in the 

 cell beyond it ; the two postmedial lines more lunulate and more 

 or less connected by black blotches ; the submarginal line also 

 more irregular. Hind wing whitish or suffused with black, and 

 with traces of a submarginal band. 



5 with the line behind the head yellow, and the ground-colour 

 of abdomen yellow. 



Some specimens have the head, thorax, and wings yellowish. 



Larva brown, with tufts of brown and black hair ; speckled and 

 the back blotched with black ; a conspicuous blotch on 2nd 

 somite. 



Hah. 1V.W. Himalayas ; Sikhim ; Sylhet ; Nagas ; Burma. Exp., 

 <S 56, $ 88 millim. 



1034. Lymantria similis, Moore, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 402 ; C.$S. no. 1017. 

 Lymantria cara, But I. 111. Set. v, p. 56, pi. 90, fig. 13 ; C. # 8. 

 no. 1004. 



<$ . Differs from ascetria in the tegul® being without black 

 spots. Fore wing with the black patches on costa, from which 



