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monacha does in the palearctic countries. The Lymantriids, moreover, exhibit a remarkable adaptability with 
respect to their food. Lymantria dispar, monacha and others do in no way occur on low plants; with respect to 
the trees, however, they make almost no difference between the extremest species. In Africa I saw larvae of 
Lymantria having been blown off by the storm from mulberry-trees on Euphorbiaceae, on which they were 
feeding and the larva of L. monacha being brought from coniferous trees on deciduous trees may live on them 
without being harmed. (Dr. A. Seitz). 
As to further biological particulars and the characterization of the Lymantriidae we refer to Vol. II, 
p. 109—111. 
Characteristic marks of the family: Proboscis stunted or absent, frenulum present; 
in the forewing 1 c is absent, but 1 a and 1 b are present and separated, 5 rises nearer at 4 than at 6; in 
the hindwing 2 dorsal veins, 5 as in the forewing or absent ( Porthesia ), 8 almost touches 7 near the middle of 
the cell and is connected with it by a transverse vein. The male antennae are mostly strongty combed, the 
$$ mostly with abundant anal wool. Flying at night (except Orgyia and Aroa). As to further particulars comp, 
my review of the family in the Palearctic Part of this work, Vol. II, p. 109—111. — Deviating forms are the 
Anthelinae (see below). The family therefore is divided into 2 subfamilies. (Dr. E. Strand). 
A. Subfamily Lymantriinae. 
Forewing with a moderately large areola or none at all; veins 8 and 9 on a footstalk. Veins 7 and 8 
on the hindwing do not diverge beginning from the base. 
1. Group: Areolatae. 
Vein 10 of the forewing rises from the cell. (Vid. Vol. II, p. 110). 
1. Genus: Dasychira Steph. 
See the Palearctic Part, Vol. II, p. 111. 
dalbcrcjinc. D. dalbergiae Moore which is frequently dealt with as a synonym of D. inclusa Wkr. (from Java) and 
invaria Wkr. (from the Philippines), I have described as a good species only occurring in the Cashmir-district, 
in the Palearctic Part, Vol. II, p. 114—115 (fig. 22 a). 
(jrolci. 
mendosa. 
fusiformis. 
lanceolata. 
basivUta. 
cookiensis. 
flavimacula. 
tenebrosa. 
securis. 
D. grotei Moore (= kausalia Moore) (Vol. II, t. 22 a) has been dealt with in the Palearctic Part, 
Vol. II, p. 115, as a good species that has nothing to do with D. horsfieldi (38 c). 
D. mendosa Hbn. ($ = sawanta Moore ) see in Vol. II, p. 115 (fig. 22 d). At the same place as by-forms 
fusiformis Wkr., lanceolata Wkr. and basivitta Wkr., of which presumably at least the two latter forms belong 
also to the Indian region. Of the 5 other forms mentioned ( basalis, divisa, basigera, distinguenda and invasa 
Wkr.), which Swinhoe (1903) synonymizes with mendosa, one or the other might perhaps be distinguished as 
a by-form. — The larva does very much harm to the tea-plantations in India and also lives on Ziziphus jujuba. 
cotton-plants, and Terminalia catappa L. etc.; it feeds for 25 days, the pupa rests for 9 to 15 days. D. 
mendosa, according to Semper, flies in the Philippines in September and October. The larva, according to him. 
lives in Manila on Caballero (Caesalpina spec.), is of a beautiful grey with a red head and red dots, at the 
Read and anus with long black hairs, on the 4th to 7th segments with yellowish-grey hair-tufts on the dorsum, 
on the 4th and 5th segments also laterally. Pupa with black wing-cases, yellow abdominal rings and a grey 
dorsum bordered with red; it rests near Manila in March for 8 days, in July for 5 days. — Comp, what I have 
said about the larva in the Vol. II, J. c. What we have figured next to mendosa-A (38 a), is an insect differing 
so much from the typical form by a dark median longitudinal band on the forewing that it deserves to be 
distinguished from mendosa by a special name; unfortunately neither of the many names already given to the 
mendosa-fovms can be applied to it, nor am I quite certain whether it belongs to this species. From Cooktown 
I have seen several specimens not varying very much from each other and not forming a real transition to 
the genuine mendosa. I call this form cookiensis form. nov. (38 a). 
D. flavimacula Moore and tenebrosa Wkr. (38 b) see in the Palearctic Part, Vol. II, p. 116. 
D. securis Hbn. (= falcata Wkr.) see in the Palearctic Part, Vol. II, p. 115 — 116 (Vol. II, t. 22 c). 
The following names: antica Wkr., tacta Wkr. and approximata Wkr. may only denote by-forms occurring 
in the Indo-Australian region, but they are generally considered as synonyma. 
horsfieldi. D. horsfieldi Saund. (= arga Moore, longipennis Wkr.) (38 c). $ white. Forewing dusted with 
fine, brown scales, and with some transverse, brown, indistinct undulate lines. Hindwing white. Antennae, 
head, thorax and forelegs speckled brown, abdomen white. Expanse of wings: 70 to 80 mm. — $ greyish- 
white. The comb of the antennae red-brown, abdomen orange with a grey anal brush. Forewing speckled 
