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LYMANTRIA AMPLA, 
WLK. 
References :-Wik. Cat. iv, p. 883; Moore, Lep.’E. I. Co, pl. ga, fig. 4, 
and pl. 1s, figs. 7, 7a, 8, 8a (larva); C.& S.no. 1028, 
Hmpsn. Faun. Br. Ind, Moths, I, 460, no. 1028. 
Classification :—Order, LEPIDOPTERA. Sub-Order, HETEROCERA, 
Family, Lymantriide. 
Description. 
The darva is brown in colour and clothed with tufts of short 
hair and long hair from the anterior and posterior segments ; 
male with a pale subdorsal line and dorsal and lateral white 
spots ; female with black dorsal spots and a white spot on the 
ninth segment. Head and legs ochreous. 
Moth, &. Palpi hairy. Head, thorax, and abdomen yellow 
brown, legs spotted with black. Fore-wing greyish-brown ; 
a black sub-basal line with some spots beyond it; an antemedial 
waved line ; a spot at middle of cell and luaule at end of it ; 
a diffused postmedial band and double waved postmedial line. 
Hind wing brown, with an indistinct waved postmedial. line ; 
an elongate black mark near anal angle ; cilia of both wings 
spotted with black. 
@. Antenne serrate. Head, thorax, and aborted wings white, 
spotted with black ; abdomen blackish. 
Expanse of wings 40 millim. 
Life History, etc. 
This insect is a very close ally of the well known destructive 
European pest Lymantria (Liparts) monacha, Linn., and it is 
therefore recorded in these notes. At present little is known 
of its life history in India, although it exists throughout the entire 
continent as also in Burma and Ceylon. It has proved a 
destructive defoliator to the Peepul tree’ (/%cus re/igiosa) in 
Calcutta. 

