LTMANTEIA— STArEOPUS. 
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Lymantria todara, Moore. (Plate CXLI. fig. 15.) 
Lymantria todara, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1879, p. 402, pi. 33. fig. 6. 
Expanse, ? 3j inches. 
Female. Fore wing silky white, with five large black transverse irregular bands at even 
distances along the costa : the first basal extending to the submedian nervure ; the second to 
just below the middle of the cell ; the third to the lower end of the cell ; the fourth to the 
upper discoidal nervule, with a series of obsolescent lunules below it extending to the first 
median nervule ; the fifth to the lower subcostal nervule, with a black spot below it ; a series 
of black cilial and antecilial spots, the one between the second and third median nervules 
being large and comma-shaped ; two black spots obliquely superposed near the outer angle ; 
a large irregular V-shaped black mark at the middle of the inner margin. Hind wing dusky 
white ; a series of indistinct dusky submarginal lunules terminating as cilial and antecilial 
spots ; the basal and abdominal areas clothed with ochreous hairs. Underside dusky. Palpi 
and antennae black. Head white, with yellow above the eyes round the base of antennfe ; 
junction with collar yellow, with a black spot at centre. Collar white, with two large con- 
fluent black spots, a smaller one with a small yellow spot on each side of it at junction with 
thorax. Thorax white, with four black spots forming a square on vertex. Abdomen yellow, 
with black segmental bands, except below. Legs black, the hind pair with femur white and 
black spot on it. 
NOTODONTIDaE. 
Carea purpurea. (Plate CXLI. figs. 4, 9.) 
Expanse, ^ l-^^-'^h ? liVli i^^ch. 
Male. Fore wing bright chestnut suffused with purple ; narrow dark antemedial and 
postmedial bands, the space between them, and also the outer margin, paler ; an indistinct 
dark spot at end of cell. Hind wing rosy, basal area paler. 
Female. Eore wing darker and more uniform in colour than male ; the bands further 
apart ; a series of somewhat indistinct submarginal spots. Hind wing with the area near 
inner margin dusky. 
Underside of both sexes rosy, darkest at apex and costa, palest towards inner margin. 
Legs and paljoi white ; antennae black ; head and thorax above purple-chestnut ; abdomen 
dusky, rosy at sides and below. 
Nearest to C. obsolescens , but darker and brighter coloured, and with different markings. 
Stauropus griseus. (Plate CXLI. fig. 16.) 
Expanse 2\ inches. 
Female. Antennae, the terminal one fourth simple, the remainder bipectinated, most 
heavily towards base. Head, thorax, and fore wing uniformly covered with dark brown and 
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