LEVCANIIBjE. f) 



ARSILONCHE CONFIJSA (Plate 145, Fig. 4). 



Leucania confusa. Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. ix. p. 105 (1856). 



Forewing pale brownisli-ochreous, numerously covered with pale brown scales ; 



two or three indistinct blackish dots at upper end of tlie cell : hindwing ochreous- 



white. Head, thorax, and legs pale brownish-ochreous ; abdomen above ochreous- 



white. 



Expanse, <? 1|, 2 If inch. 



Genus LEUCANIA, 



Leucania, Ochsenlieiniei-, Sclimett. Eiir. iv. p. 81 (1816); Samouelle, Ent. U. Comp. p. 251 (1819); 



Hiibner, Vevz. bek. Sch. p. 241 ; Stephens; Walker. 

 Donacldora, Sodoffsky, Bull. Soc. Imp. Mosc. 1837, p. 14 (1837). 



Forewing elongated, costa straight, slightly acuminate at tip, exterior margin 

 slightly oblique ; cell narrow, extending nearly two-thirds the wing ; first subcostal 

 emitted at one-half before end of the cell, second at one-fifth, trifid, fifth from end of 

 the cell, touching third nearly half-way between its base and the fourth ; discocellular 

 slightly concave, radials from upper end and near the lower end; middle median 

 from an angle close to end of the cell, lower median at one-fourth before the end ; 

 submedian recurved : hindwing short, broad, apex rounded, exterior margin undulated ; 

 cell broad, extending to half the wing ; costal vein slightly undulated, extending to 

 apex, subcostal joined to costal near the base, two subcostal branches from end of 

 the cell ; discocellular slender, deeply concave, radial fi^om the middle ; two upper 

 medians from end of the cell, lower median at one-third before the end; submedian 

 and internal vein straight. Body stout, thorax laxly clothed ; palpi short, stout, 

 laterally broad, pilose, extending beyond the head, third joint short, conical ; antennge 

 minutely ciliated ; legs stout, tibiae pilose, middle tibife with two and hind tibiee with 

 four spurs. (L. comma.) 



LEUCANIA SEPARATA. 



Leucania separata, Walker, Catal. Lep. Ilet. B. M. xxxii. p. 626 (1865). 

 Leucania extranea (var. A), Guenee, Noct. i. p. 78. 



Forewing very pale brownish-ochreous, sparsely speckled with indistinct pale 

 brown scales ; two small black dots with an intervening white dot at lower end of 

 the cell ; two recurved discal rows of indistinct minute black points, the outer row 

 with one on each vein, the inner row with one between the veins, the latter row being 

 the most indistinct ; a marginal row of black dots : hindwing whitish-ochreous at 

 the base, increasing to pale ochreous-brown along exterior border ; cilia whitish. 

 Thorax, head, and legs brownish-ochreous; palpi and forelegs brown speckled; 

 abdomen pale ochreous-brown. 



Expanse, S If, ? 1| inch, 

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