LYMANTRIA. By Dr. E. Strand. 
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L. grisea Moore (41 b). abdomen whitish, the rest of the body light brown. Forewing light brown grisea. 
-with many indistinct, dark lines composed of crescents, the most distinct of which are 2 submarginal lines 
with white crescents between them. Discocellular spot dark. Hindwing yellowish-white with an indistinct 
dark marginal band. <$: 42 mm. India, also in the north; Burma. 
L. atnpla Wkr. (41 d). $ as L. incerta, but of a more yellowish-brown colour, without any red ampla. 
on the head, abdomen and legs. $ with stunted wings, which are white like the anterior body with black spots; 
abdomen blackish. Expanse of wings: 40 mm. — Larva brown with short hair-tufts, on the anterior and posterior 
segments with rather long hairs. with a light subdorsal line and dorsal and sublateral white spots, $ with 
black dorsal spots and a white spot on the 9th segment. Head and legs oclireous. India, Ceylon, Burma. 
L. singapura Sivinh. (41 c). palpi black with white tips. Head, thorax, and forewing white, singapura. 
the middle of the head, however, with a black spot and a red line behind it, thorax spotted black. Forewing 
with black spots and lines: 6 spots in the basal area, an antemedian, dentate line and a median dentate line 
with still longer dents, a cell-spot, a submarginal dentate line, and marginal spots. Abdomen red with white 
and black spots. Hindwing red with a black marginal band not quite reaching the anal angle. Expanse of wings: 
m' 2 mm. Singapore. 
L. rhodina Wkr. (40 c). palpi, antennal shaft, head, thorax and forewings dark brown, antennal rhodina. 
combs light reddish brown. Forewing with an indistinct, discal, angularly bent, blackish, dentate line distally 
bordered with a light reddish-grey, at the end of the cell an angular, blackish spot and near it, in the cell itself, 
a heap of blackish scales, fringes brown with light reddish spots. Hindwing greyish-white, with a broad brownish 
marginal band, fringes and dorsal margin reddish. Abdomen red with brown dorsal spots and anal brush. 
Forewing beneath greyish-brown, hindwing whitish with traces of a darker marginal band. Expanse of wings: 
40 mm. India, Sikkim, Khasia Hills. 
L. bivittata Moore (41 c). Head and thorax white, palpi and antennae black, frons liued reddish, bivittata. 
basal joints of antennae and a line behind the head red, basal and anal segments white Forewing silvery white 
with 2 black basal spots, a distally oblique, somewhat undulate antemedian line, followed at the posterior 
margin by a proximally oblique postmedian line, and a series of marginal spots. Hindwings white. Expanse 
of wings: 100 mm. Sikkim, Sylhet. 
L. cerebosa Sivinh. (40 c). In both sexes the antennae orange-ochreous. Palpi and frons dark brown, cerebosa. 
Head, body and forewing dark olive-grey, speckled whitish, at the cell-end a double line of small crescents, 
4 sinuate double transverse lines, whitish marginal moon-spots. Hindwing dirty white with a grey discocellular 
spot. Beneath light grey, in both wings with an indistinct, grey discal transverse band and a moon-shaped 
discocellular spot. Tarsi spotted white. Expanse of wings: $ 41 % mm, $ 49 mm. Simla (India). 
L. dissoluta Sivinh. (40 d) is allied with obsoleta. In both sexes the antennae, palpi, frons and head dissoluta. 
are brown. Thorax and forewing dark brownish-grey with undulate brown transverse lines: an antemedian 
line being distally angled above the middle, the second discal one being feebly bent back, partly dentate, the 
third being submarginal. Discocellidar spot large, angular, brown. Fringes grey with blackish-brown spots. 
Hindwing, and both wings beneath uni-coloured lighter grey, without markings. On the upper surface the 
wing is in some specimens slightly darker towards the distal margin. Abdomen red. 38, $ 51 mm. Hongkong. 
— A $ from Hongkong Nov. 1891 (Coll. Seitz) which I take to be this species, is characteristic and, as far as 
may be judged from the too short description by Swinhoe, different from the principal form by the marginal 
area not exhibiting any dark transverse lines in a width of 6 to 7 mm, but small transverse spots at the costal 
and posterior margins, evidently the remainders of the submarginal line. The distal one of the transverse 
lines present is at the costal margin 9 mm distant from the border, at the posterior margin 7 mm, curved zigzag¬ 
like or broken, thickened at the costal margin and proximally forming a long tooth directed towards the disco¬ 
cellular. Then follows a nebulous transverse line widened at both ends and enclosing the jet-black hook-shaped 
discocellular streak of 3% mm length and being connected on the posterior margin by a dark longitudinal 
streak of 2 mm length with the subbasal transverse line being 7 mm distant from the base at the posterior 
margin, 5 mm at the costal margin, and being at both its ends, particularly in front, strongly thickened. 
iy 2 mm distant from the base there is a jet-black, medium-sized spot which may be sometimes expanded into 
a transverse band. Thorax with a black median longitudinal line which seems to be in front expanded to 
a transverse streak. Frons greyish-white. If, as I presume, this form is to differ from the typical form of 
this species, it may be denominated ab. limboarealis Strand. ■—A (J collected at the same place and doubtfully limboarea- 
added to this species is distinguished among other marks by the forewing being lighter, of a light greyish colour, 
at the costal margin, which is most conspicuous between the antemedian (or proximal) and the median transverse 
line. Abdomen like the hindwing, scarcely with traces of a reddish glimmer. In the cell there is above a small, 
jet-black, punctiform spot. Expanse of wings: 36 mm, length of wings: 16% mm, length of body: 16 mm. 
