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IMAUS. By Dr. M. Hering. 
subfusca. 
melanocera. 
vitrina. 
lutea. 
heptasticta. 
rhodophora. 
rubroviri- 
dis. 
multiscrip- 
ta. 
fuliginea. 
barica. 
fumosa. 
uxor. 
L. subfusca Bsd. Forewing brown, somewhat glossy, greyish-white at the costal margin, with a central 
brown dot therein; two fine dentate transverse lines, before the centre and before the distal margin, between 
them a whitish median band which is not dentate. A similar somewhat slanting transverse line near the base. 
Hindwing reddish-grey with 2 darker dentate transverse lines. Amazulu. Expanse about 40 mm. 
L. melanocera Mab. Forewing whitish-hyaline, strewn with darker scales, with yellowish margins. 
Hindwing hyaline white, in the centre of the margin below the cell a dark shadow, veins distinctly reddish. 
Body white, abdomen at the end yellowish. Antennae deep black, palpi dark reddish. Expanse: 106 mm. 
Madagascar. 
L. vitrina Mob. Wings almost transparent. Base narrowly yellow, costal margin of forewing black, 
veins and fringes black. Thorax yellow like the abdomen, antennae and legs black. Expanse : 65 mm. Madagascar. 
L. lutea Bsd. Forewing ochreous-yellow, at the distal margin with a broad brown band which begins 
very narrow at the apex and widens very much towards the tornus. Before it a dentate band of dark spots which 
is beneath fused with the former band. In the centre of the wing a dark yellow transverse line. Hindwing 
yellow with a brown spot at the distal margin near the tornus. Under surface yellow. Expanse about 40 mm. 
Amazulu. 
L. heptasticta Mab. Forewing whitish hyaline, with a silky gloss, particularly on the veins, where it 
turns somewhat yellow. Forewing with a submarginal line of 7 black dots between the veins. Hindwing 
white. Thorax reddish-white, abdomen yellowish. Expanse: 70 mm. Madagascar. 
L. rhodophora Mab. Wings yellowish-white, suffused with a bright pink, particularly at the base; 
beneath yellow mixed with white, the red colour at the margins is obsolete. $ larger, yellowish-white, base 
of forewing and disc of hindwing suffused with pink. Antennae, thorax, and apex of abdomen white, abdomen 
above pink. Tarsi black. Expanse: $ 50 mm. Madagascar. 
L. rubroviridis sp. n. (25 h). Body olive-green, abdomen above basally red, otherwise with black 
bands. Forewing olive-green with 2 blackish-brown subbasal spots below the cell, antemedian line in front 
very much widened like a spot, the spot on the cross-vein broad, a very undulate postmedian line and a similar 
double subterminal line, at the margin spots between the veins. Hindwing pink. Under surface uni-coloured 
light greenish-white with a dark brown spot on the cross-vein, and traces of marginal dots. $ type from Bipindi 
in the Berlin Museum. 
L. multiscripta Hoil. (26 a). In spite of the peculiar habitus it belongs to this place structurally. Body 
yellow, legs partly dark brown. Abdomen with black dorsal dots. Forewing yellow, powdered with brownish, 
with a brown bent subbasal line. A median line is very prominent and forms a sharp angle at the lower cell- 
end, connected with the brown spot at the cross-vein. Postmedian line from the apex to 4 / 5 of the hind-margin, 
between the veins 3 and 5 indistinct or interrupted. At the margin indistinct dark dots. Hindwing pale yellow. 
Congo. 
The following species comprised by Swunhoe under Pyramocera Btlr. presumably all belong to Ly- 
mantria. 
L. fuliginea Btlr. Forewing smoky brown with an oblong white spot in the cell, containing 2 black 
dots. Hindwing smoky brown like the body; collar and abdomen red, dorsal spots and anal tuft black. Expanse 
about 80 mm. Madagascar. 
L. barica Mab. <$ is said to be similar to L. dispar (Vol. II. pi. 20 d), but larger and stronger. Forewing 
reddish-grey, basally more hazy, with indistinct black dentate transverse lines. A square spot at the costal 
margin is greyish-white, extending into the light cell, where it exhibits 3 black dots. Hindwing basally reddish- 
yellowish, otherwise dark grey. Thorax greyish-black, abdomen above pink with a blackish dorsal stripe. 
Expanse: 77 mm. Madagascar. 
L. fumosa Saalm. (25 h). Forewing similar to barica, but much smaller. The costal-marginal spot at the 
cell-end only light reddish-grey; the black dots before and at the cell-end otherwise as in this species. Hindwing 
quite blackish-brown, beneath at the base and hind-margin and partly on the veins, as well as the base of 
th.e forewing yellowish. Expanse (U) about 60 mm. Madagascar. 
L. uxor Saalm. (26a). Thorax blackish-brown, collar creamy-white, basally red; abdomen red with 
an interrupted black dorsal line. Forewing greyish-brown with a white broad median band exhibiting the 3 
black dots before and on the cross-vein, with velvety black antemedian, post median, and discal lines bordered 
with white. Hindwing greyish-brown, Expanse: 93 mm. Madagascar. 
85. Genus: [mans Mr. 
Hind tibiae with 2 pair of spurs; forewing without an accessory cell, veins 10 to 7 forked, 7 rising before 
10, 6 separated from it. In the hindwing vein 4 is nearer to 3 than to 5, 6 and 7 from the same place. Distal 
margin of hindwing at vein 3 distinctly angular, by which the genus is easily discernible. It is more distributed 
in the Indo-Australian region. 
