LYMANTRIA. By Dr. M. Hering. 
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hindmarginal spot, and the thinner and more convex postmedian line. Hindwing pink with a blackish distal 
margin. Both sexes with a white subbasal spot, behind it a subbasal band composed of golden yellow spots. 
British East Africa. 
L. jparvula Kenr. Body grey, abdomen somewhat ochreous-yellow. Forewing whitish at the base, parvula. 
then grey as far as the postmedian line before which there is an irregular white band. Postmedian line angular, 
at the tornus widened into two dark spots; beyond it the wing is pale grey, at the apex darker, at the margin 
a row of dark spots. Hindwing brownish-grey with a fine dark marginal line and two transverse lines. 
Expanse: 37 mm. Madagascar. 
L. melete Fawc. Body blackish-brown, abdomen red with black dorsal spots. Forewing blackish- melcle. 
brown with a whitish median band powdered with dark, therein a black dot. An indistinct postmedian band 
of grey lunae. Hindwing pale grey. Expanse: 46 mm. British East-Africa. 
L. menedes Feme. Blackish-brown, head, tibiae and abdomen red. Forewing greyish-brown, at the meneclcs. 
hind-margin reddish. A bent black antemedian line, followed by a white median band powdered with dark, 
parted by the posterior edge of the cell. This median band is distally bordered by a blackish band which 
is broadest at the costal margin. Besides there is a submarginal undulate line. Fringes spotted red and black. 
Hindwing yellowish, fringes and marginal line red. Expanse: 40 mm. British East Africa. 
L. arete Fawc. Body reddish-brown; abdomen red with black dorsal spots. Forewing brown with arete. 
blackish and rust-brown irroration. A black dot at the base of the cell, a similar one right before the cell-end 
and cross-vein with a black streak. Three indistinct pale transverse lines, an antemedian line, one over the 
cross-vein, then incurved, and a postmedian one. Marginal area paler. The second and third transverse lines 
are distally broadly shaded with dark. Veins and partly the spaces between them are rusty brown. Hind wing 
pale brown, towards the apex darker. Margins of both wings with black dots. Expanse: 40 mm. British East 
Africa. 
L. conspersa sp. n. (25 g). Forewing yellow, basal area violettish-black, bordered by a narrow line conspersa. 
of the ground- colour, behind it an antemedian band and a postmedian one, both being broad, connected below 
the cell, terminal area for the greatest part dark, with some yellow spots at the margin. Hindwing uni-coloured 
ochreous-yellow. Body brownish-yellow. British East Africa. $ type from Guasa Nyioro in the Tring Museum. 
L. melissa Fawc. (25 g). Body yellow, abdomen red. Forewing in the basal third brown, only at melissa. 
the hind-margin light reddish; then follow two light brownish-pink spots in the <$, which are connected in the 
$ and form a transverse band; marginal area broad chrome-coloured, before it traces or spots of a pinkish- 
brown lighter postmedian band. Hindwing pink, marginal area ochreous-yellow. British East Africa. The 
species varies greatly in the distinctness of the red-brown marking. 
L. rufofusca Mab. The position of this doubtful species is very uncertain. Forewing blackish with rufofusca. 
a broad black longitudinal band from the base to the costal margin and the centre of the distal margin, the 
rest of the wing is dark ochreous-yellow. Two dentate subterminal transverse stripes and fringes black. Hindwing 
at the costal margin blackish, in the centre brownish-yellow, the same at the hind-margin. Forewing beneath 
reddish with black longitudinal stripes. Hindwing red with a bent median line and a dot at the cross-vein 
? Madagascar. 
L. flavicilia limps. Body greyish-brown, femora above pink, abdomen pinkish-red with subdorsal small flavicilia. 
black dots and ventral black bands, anal tuft yellow. Forewing dark greyish-brown, at the cell-end lighter, 
therein a black dot before the cross-vein and a crescent on it. An indistinct dark postmedian line distally bordered 
with light grey, and a similar subterminal line. Fringes speckled yellow and brown. Hindwing pale greyish- 
brown, hind-margin yellowish-white, fringes with yellow ends. Expanse: 54 mm. Rhodesia. 
L. joarniisi Le-Cerf. (25 f). Body grey, abdomen above more pink, beneath brownish-yellow. Forewing joannisi. 
reddish-grey, transverse lines indistinct, the most distinct is the crescent on the cross-vein and the subterminal 
transverse row of crescentiform spots, which is distally bent between 3 and 4; at the margin small internerval 
dots. Hindwing flesh-coloured, the spot on the cross-vein, and large postmedian patches are blackish, the 
margin projecting very much between the veins 2 and 4. Madagascar. 
L. taurina sp. n. (25 h). Body grey, abdomen above pink with a dorsal row of black dots, beneath taurina. 
whitish-yellow, femora jjartly pink. Forewing light grey, basal third darkened, an undulate antemedian line 
proximally bordered with whitish. In the light discal area a black crescent on the cross-vein, a dot before it, 
and one at the lower cell-angle; behind it a blackish nebulous band, then a postmedian line which is dentate, 
towards the hind-margin double. Subterminal line irregular, composed of single moon-spots. Fringes speckled 
brownish and grey, at the end whitish. Hindwing white; fringes darker, often with a dark spot on the cross¬ 
vein and traces of a subterminal band at the apex and tornus. British East Africa, 8 in the Tring Museum. 
