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LYMANTRIA. By Dr. M. Hering. 
dulcinea. 
rosea. 
bananoides. 
bananae. 
melia. 
totica. 
albimacula. 
marwitzi. 
miniaia. 
metella. 
cddela. 
pruinosa. 
carriala. 
gondona. 
modesta. 
L. dulcinea Btlr. (26 a). Forewing in both sexes as in the palearctic L. monachaL., but all the transverse 
lines are red-brown; hindwing pale pink. Head and collar flesh-coloured, thorax white with red-brown spots; 
abdomen yellowish-white, at the end darker. In the $ the forewing shows sulphur-coloured margins and olive- 
brown markings, hindwing at the base pink, at the margin silky white, the edge spotted brown. Expanse: 
35 ($) to 46 ($) mm. Madagascar. 
L. rosea Btlr. Pinkish-white, forewing with a silky gloss. Base dotted white and spotted black, a 
black antemedian angular and dentate transverse line, a similar more regular discal one, and an undulate 
submarginal line. Hindwing with a spot on the cross-vein and a darker submarginal band. Body white, abdomen 
pink. Expanse about 40 mm. Madagascar. 
L. bananoides sp. n. (25 f) resembles the following bananae ; forewing darker brown, the yellowish 
spots smaller, hindwing lighter, almost white, only at the hind-margin yellowish. $ type from Gabun in the 
Berlin Museum, also from Cameroon. 
L. bananae Btlr. (25 f). Forewing yellowish-grey, the costal margin, hind-margin, and basal quarter 
brown, also the cross-vein and a postmedian line which is not sinuate, but distally convex. Distal margin brown, 
more or less brightened up, sometimes only brown marginal spots between the veins 5 and 6 and at the tornus. 
Hindwing thinly scaled, greyish-yellow, at the hind-margin deeper yellow. Forewing beneath yellowish with 
a brown costal margin. East Africa, Congo. 
L. melia Faroe. (25 f). Quite similar to albimacula, but the hindwing and abdomen are red, the white 
band of the forewing does not cross distally the transverse band, but one white spot between veins 3 and 5. 
Expanse: 46 mm. British East Africa. 
L. tottea Swh. Similar to bananae, forewing brownish-grey with a yellow tint, with a broad whitish 
band parted into 8 spots by the veins, a white spot at the cell-end, a smaller one in the disc outside the band. 
Abdomen pale greyish-yellow. Hindwing white, with a yellow tint. Under surface white, without any marking. 
Expanse about 40 mm. Old Calabar. 
L. albimacula Wllgr. (= mosera Drc.) (25 g). Forewing brown, with a white median band broken 
up into spots by the veins and getting much narrower towards the hind-margin, sometimes traces of a lighter 
postmedian line. Hindwing yellow. Delagoa Bay, South Africa. 
L. marwitzi Griinb. (25 f) is separated from albimacula by the absence of the white spot of the forewing 
right behind the cross-vein. East Africa. 
L. miniata Griinb. (25 g). Like marwitzi, but the hindwing and abdomen varies from pink to red-brown. 
Larva flat, of the Lymantria-type, dorsum light with 2 darker lines, on the segments 11 and 12 with a cutaneous 
gland that can be turned forward. East Africa, Kilimanjaro. 
L. metella Fawc. (25 h). Like miniata, but between the veins 4 and 5 no white spot any more. East 
Africa. 
L. eddela Swh. Body pale pinkish-brown like the forewing at the base of which there is a black spot 
with 3 more dots close next to it; a straight hardly dentate antemedian and discal transverse line of black spots, 
three black dots at the cell-end. Hindwing paler, almost white, with a broad black marginal band. Abdomen 
orange with black dorsal spots. Expanse about 35 mm. Tanganyika. 
L. pruinosa sp. n. (25 g). Similar to miniata Griinb. Forewing brown with the same whitish marking 
at the cell-end. but distally to it, broadly separated, another postmedian line lmed with whitish from the costal 
margin to vein 3. Hindwing pale yellow, veins darker, hind-margin and hindwing broadly dull red. East Africa. 
$ type from Uhehe in the Tring Museum. 
L. carriala Swh. (= carriola Swh.). Body and forewing blackish-brown, two white spots on the 
thorax. Forewing with a white spot on the centre of the hind-margin and a white dot above it, therein 
a group of 4 black dots. 2 or 3 indistinct pale spots in the upper disc. Hindwing pale pink, a rather 
broad pale blackish-brown apical band almost to half of the distal margin. Abdomen yellow with dorsal and 
lateral black spots. Expanse about 40 mm. Angola. 
L. gondona Swh. Thorax and forewing pale grey, almost white, the latter with 4 dark grey transverse 
bands bordered by brown lines: the first being basal, the second antemedian and broad, the border-lines being 
rather sinuate; the third is discal, narrower, distally convex, the fourth apical. Hindwing white, without 
markings. Abdomen pink. Expanse about 40 mm. British East Africa. 
L. modesta Wkr. (= rhodopepla Fldr.) (25 g, h). Body and legs as in gondona, but abdomen at the 
base red, then ochreous-yellow, in the $ often darkened. $: forewing brown with a white antemedian line 
parted by brown, widening in the cell, extending to the costa and enclosing a black dot. Postmedian line straight, 
like the veins distally to it white. Hindwing whitish with a grey marginal area. In the $ the first band in the 
forewing is only represented by a whitish cellular spot containing a black dot and sometimes by a white 
