BY T. P. LUCAS. 1097 



apical angle, here it turns on itself and extends near hindmargin 

 to anal angle; space included purple-grey, marginal line chocolate- 

 grey : cilia brown, grey, and green. Hindwings as forewings, 

 with a patch of reddish-ochreous on middle third of inner margin, 

 and very indistinct discal spot or suffusion. Under surface of wings 

 ochreous shaded with purple-grey, from base to median line, discal 

 spot on forewings conspicuous black with white suffusion toward 

 median line and costa, discal spot on hindwings pale, indistinct ; 

 median line | costa to § inner margin on foi'ewings, and in a 

 line from beyond \ costa to \ inner margin hindwings. A broad 

 grey-black fascia from costa just beyond median line, touching 

 hindmargin near anal angle in forewings, and at apex and anal 

 angle in hindwings. 



Mackay ; one specimen sent by Mr. Turner ; after whom I have 

 great pleasure in naming the specimen. This species is allied to 

 H. acanthina, Meyr. 



NOCTU.^, Family ORTHOSID.E. 



Leucania aureola, n.sp. 



(J. 38 mm. Head, palpi, thorax and abdomen ochreous-brown. 

 Antennae ochreous above, smoky-brown beneath. Legs ochreous- 

 brown. Bunch of loncf hairs on undersurface and centre of abdo- 



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men black. Forewings, costa rounded before apex, hindmargin 

 rounded, ochreous-brown, with veins and finely lined subvenations 

 reddish-brown ; a strongly marked brown line midway through 

 wing to I, parallel with inner margin ; a small black discal spot 

 almost touching this line just beyond ^, another small spot just 

 outside first, an oblique brown line from just before apex of costa 

 becoming a suffusion to discal spot, an oblique brown line, suffused 

 at apex, but narrowing into a series of dots to J ianer margin, a 

 few other irregular indistinct suffused brown spots and dots, and 

 grey-black marginal dots on veins : cilia ochreous-brown. Hind- 

 wings ochreous-brown, freely covered with smoky-brown scattered 

 scales, which become a dark suffusion on hind half of wing ; cilia 



