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Show 300 LIEUT.-COL. C SWINHOE ON THE LEPIDOPTERA [M 94. E N O M E AMPLA. Enome ampla, Walker, iv. p. 883. Poona, October. 95, ENOME INCERTA. Lymantria incerta, Walker, iv. p. 880. Sattara, June. 96. ENOME DETERSA. (Plate XXI. figs. 3 3 , 4 2 •) Lymantria detersa, Walker, xxxii. p. 365. Poona, October, very plentiful; Belgaum, September ; Sattara, November. As Mr. Butler stated (P.Z.S. 1883, p. 156, n. 45) that the female of this species was unknown, I got Mr. Taplin, at Poona, to pay particular attention to the subject; and by digging and hunting for pupae at the foot and in the bark of the Acacia arabica, where the male moth is found in great abundance, we were successful at last; a fat pupa produced a fat black apterous grub-like moth, and round the breeding-cage Mr. Taplin that night caught over three hundred males all trying to get at this female. Subsequently he obtained an impregnated moth and tried to rear the larvae, but a sudden change in the weather killed them all. I was away from Poona at the time, and Mr. Taplin kept no drawings. The larvae feed on babool (Acacia arabica). I have the two pupa-cases of both the females in m y collection. This insect is very plentiful above the Ghats, but I never observed it in Bombay. Walker's type came from N. India, not from the Mauritius, as is stated in his work. 97. LYMANTRIA OBSOLETA. 3 . Lymantria obsoleta, Walker, iv. p. 880. Poona, February and September; Matheran, May; Bombay, October. The female is very much larger than the male, expanse of wings being, 3 \-fe, 2 2^ inch ; the coloration and markings are similar. Walker's type must, however, have been a faded specimen, because the abdomen in both sexes, when fresh, is of a deep pinkish red, and not of a slight rosy tinge as described by him ; the basal portion of the hind wings is also rosy, and sometimes nearly the whole of the hind wing is of that colour. The larvae feed on Ficus indicus ; they turn pupae at the foot of the tree, the pupae being always found suspended in a net like the pupae of Perina basalis. 98. LYMANTRIA FULIGINOSA. Lymantria fuliginosa, Moore, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 17. Bombay, August to December, very common. |