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LYMANTRIA TODARA 
MOORE. 
References :—Moore, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 402, pl. 33, fig. 6; Hmpsn. Ill. Het 
vill, pl. 141, fig. 1§ (2); C.&S. no. 1020. Hmpsn, Faun. 
Br. Ind. Moths, Vol. I, p. 463. no. 1035. 
Classification:—Order, LEPIDOPTERA. Sub-Order, HETEROCERA, 
Family, Lymantriide. 
Description. 
A largish moth with white wings with blackish markings 
white head and thorax, black antenne. Hampson thus 
describes it :— 
36 . Head and thorax white; antennz black ; a yellow line 
behind the head ; two black spots on collar; and four on vertex 
of thorax ; abdomen yellow. Fore wing with the postmedial 
waved lines single towards inner margin. Hind wing pale 
yellow, with a fuscous marginal band, 
2. Abdomen yellow and black. Fore wing with the waved 
lines absolescent ; the black patches on costa and inner margin 
large and well defined, the first three on costa crossing the 
cell; a patch on centre of outer margin; the one on inner mar- 
gin Y-shaped. Hind wing fuscous white, slightly tinged with 
yellow ; the sub-marginal band almost obsolete. 
Expanse of wings: ¢ 54, 9 88 millim. 

Areas from which reported. 
This moth was found in company with Z. odsolefa in 1899 in 
the sal forests of the Jalpaiguri Duars at the foot of the North- 
East Himalayas in Bengal. (Farrington). Hampson states 
that it has also been reported from the Nilgiris and Ceylon. 
