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LYMANTRIA OBSOLETA, 
WLK. 
References:—Wlk. Cat. iv, p. 880; C. & S. no. 1014. Lymantria bhas- 
cara, Moore, Lep. E. I. Co., p. 345. Lymantria vinacea, 
Moore, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 402. Lymantria albolunulata, 
Moore, P. Z. S.1879, p. 403; C.&S. no. 999. Lymantria 
sobrina, Moore, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 402, pl. 33, fig. 5. 
Hmpsn. Faun. Br. Ind. Moths, Vol. I, p. 461. no. 1031. 
Classification :—Order, LEPIDOPTERA. Sub-Order, HETEROCERA. 
Family, Lymantriide. 
Description, 
General colour of the moth is brown with black markings. 
The head and thorax black. Hampson describes it as follows:— 
3. Head and thorax brown; abdomen slightly tinged with 
crimson. Fore wings irrorated with dark scales; indistinct, 
double lunulate antemedial, medial, and postmedial lines ; a black 
lunule at end of cell, but no spot inthe cell. Hind wing pale 
brownish fuscous. 
@. Abdomen crimson, with a dark line on vertex and series 
of black spots, the extremity brown; hind wing with the inner 
area suffused with crimson. 
The form albolunulata from the North-West Himalayas 
has the fore wing more irrorated with black; the postmedial 
lines with whitish lunules between them. A form from the 
Khasis has the ground-colour of fore wing paler ; the hind wing 
nearly pune white, with a fuscous lunule at end of cell and irre- 
gular sub-marginal band; the cilia of both wings chequered 
black and pirkish, 
In the form sobrzna the lines of the fore wings are better 
defined ; the hind wing with the inner margin tinged with pink ; 
female with the abdomen yellowish. 
Expanse of wings: ¢ 42, 2 72 millim, 
Areas from which reported. 
This moth was plentiful in 1899 in the sal forests of the 
Jalpaiguri Duars situated at the foot of the North-East Hima- 
layas in Bengal. (Sir H, A. Farrington, Bart.) 
It has a wide range as Hampson gives its habitat as China, 
formosa, and throughout India and Ceylon. 
