100 t^'-''^' 



Among the Leucanice already alluded to, Mr. Mathcw Las secured 

 upon the same coast in the month of July, a male and three females 

 of what appears to be an undcscribed species. 



Tlie niitennffl of the male are simple, but toward the base ciliated with minute 

 tufts of bristles, beyond this with minute single bristles only ; pale buff. Eyes 

 hairy. Palpi densely tufted, so that the apical joint is nearly concealed ; brownish- 

 buff ; head similar. Thorax rather robust, brownish-buff in front, paler buff, or 

 honey-colour, toward the back ; shoulder lappets a little raised and finished off with 

 long scales lying back ; fascicles of hair scales at the back white, curved in, so as to 

 meet on the base of the abdomen, which also has an abundance of long white scales 

 on its basal segments covering its pale buff surface ; lateral tufts large, faintly tinged 

 with grey and yellowish ; anal tuft yellowish. Fore-wings rather broader than in 

 L. pallens, and more pointed at the apes, shaped in fact as in L. straminea ; costal 

 and dorsal margins nearly straight ; apex acute ; hind margin below it oblique and 

 faintly hollowed, but rounded off at the anal angle ; entire surface of a smooth soft 

 honey-colour, or colour of the honeycomb (a shade of buff difficult to describe) ; 

 having the nervures faintly perceptible but not paler in colour. At the apex of the 

 discal cell is a round black dot as in L. pallens, and two more lie in the position of 

 the ordinary " second line " or " elbowed line," which is further indicated by faint 

 blackish dashes, more particularly towards the costa, where this faint line is decidedly 

 curved back. Hind-wings rounded, white at the base and apex, but with the middle 

 area tinged with smoky-grey and reddish ; all the nervures broadly dusted with 

 blackish ; cilia white. Under-side of the fore-wings pale buff, tinged in the middle 

 with brownish ; before the apex is a black spot on the costa, indicating a faint 

 slender transverse line ; hind-wings yellowish-white dusted with black, and having 

 a slender transverse series of black dashes on the nervures. In the female the fore- 

 wings are broader and more decidedly acuminate, also as strongly honey-coloured ; 

 in one specimen the blackish indications of a " second line" on the fore-wings are 

 absent; in another they are more noticeable than in the male; but in the third 

 there is a conspicuous and complete curved line of black dashes and spots from the 

 costal to the dorsal margin, where it is supplemented by further blackish dashes 

 along that margin, and a black spot in the position from which would arise the usual 

 iird line. 



This last specimen is a very striking and conspicuous insect. I 

 know of no connecting link to unite the form which I have here de- 

 scribed with L. pallens, yet, from the presence and position of the 

 three round black dots (when visible) a very close alliance to that 

 species must be admitted ; still, from the some\vhat greater robustness 

 of the thorax, the greater breadth and different shape of the fore-wings, 

 and their very peculiar colour and texture, I am disposed to think it 

 specifically distinct, and in that view propose for it the name oifavicolor. 

 At first sight it strongly reminds one of Nonacjria lutosa, and es- 

 pecially of the small race of that species which was once called N. 

 veclis, but from this species its hairy eyes at once separate it. 

 39, Linden Grove, Kunhcad : April, 1896. 



