
LYMANTRIA GRANDIS;! 
WLK, 
References :--Wlk. Cat.iv, p. 874; C. & S. no. 1008. Lymantria maculosa, 
Wik. Cat. iv, p. 881, Lymantria metarhoda, Wlk. Trans 
Ent. Soc, (3) 1, 1862, p.7 . Hmpsn. Faun. Br, Ind., Moths, 
I, p. 465. no 1040, Ind. Mus Notes, v. 1, p. 33. 
Classitication:—Order, LEPIDOPTRA. Sub-Order, HETEROCERA 
Family, Lymantriide. 
Description. 
The /arva is very hairy, of an ashy-brown colour overlying 
a darker hue, with two conspicuous tufts on the first segment 
of the body. It is about 2 inches long. 
Moth. 8. Wiffers from L, mathura (already described) in 
having the orange markings replaced by crimson, except that the 
abdomen is somewhat orange towards the extremity. The shaft 
of the antenne and ground colour of thorax and fore wing are 
pure white. 
@. Differs from Z. mathura in the frons being black, the 
second joint of palpus with a black spot. 
Expanse of wings:— d 58, @ 110 millim. 
Lifenilistory. 
In the 1897-93 defoliating attack upon the sAl trees in 
Goalpara, Assam, this insect was reported as working almost 
contemporaneously with the Dasychira sp. larve; in other 
words, four generations of the larva appeared between the end 
of August 1897 and the end of April 1898 the caterpillars 
being present in August-September (ist yeneration), November 
(2nd generation), end of January-February (3rd generation), 
and March (4th generation). Notes were made in the case of 
1 Specimens of this insect were sent tothe Indian Museum in June 1898» 
by Mr. J. Campbell, Deputy Conservator of Forests, Golaghat Division, 
Assam. Asthe moths were much rubbed and damaged, the identifications 
were said to be to a certain extent doubtful. 
