
7% 
LYMANTRIA BIVITTATA, 
MOORE. 
References :— Moore, Lep. Atk., p. §7; C. & S. no. 1022. Hmpsn., Faun, Br. 
India, Moths, I, p. 466, no. 1043, 
Classification :—Order, LEPIDOPTERA. Sub-Order, HETEROCERA. 
- Family, Lymanitriide. 
Description, 
?. Head and thorax white; palpi and antenne black; 
frons tinged with crimson; basal joints of antennz and line 
behind the head crimson ; abdomen crimson, the basal and 
terminal segments white. Fore wing silvery white; two black 
basal marks; an outwardly oblique antemedial line with waved 
edges, joined at inner margin by an inwardly oblique antemedial 
line with waved edges joined at inner margin by an inwardly 
oblique postmedial line; a series of marginal spots. Hind 
wing white. Expanse of wings too millim. 
Areas from which reported. 
This moth was found in company with Lymqntria obsoleta, 
L, todara, and L, mathura in the sal forests of the Jalpaiguri 
Duars at the foot of the North-East Himalayas. (Farrington,) 
Hampson also gives Sikkim and Sylhet as its habitat. 
Description of eggs and larva. 
The eggs are apparently laid in masses on the bark, the indi- 
vidual eggs being stuck together by an excretion of the female. 
Dried specimens are small, round, silvery little globes, about 
as large as an ordinary sized pin’s head which they greatly 
resemble. No description of the /arvz of the above four Lyman- 
triid moths was made at the time of the reported attack. It 
may, however, be noted that the caterpillars of the family 
'It is at present doubtful as to which of the many different kinds of larva: 
sent in connection with these attacks produce the various species of 
Lymantria moths above described. They have therefure been dealt with 
collectively, 
