LEUCANUDJE. \ \ 



joint acute, minute ; fore tegulfe of the thorax with erect hairs ; legs stout, tibi» 

 fringed. 



" Expanse 18 Hues." 



LEUCANIA TANGALA. 



Leucania Tangala, Felder and Rogenbofer, Reise Novara, Lep. iv. pi. 109, fig. 12 (IS? t). 



Male. Upperside : forewing pale pinkish-ochreous, with purplisli-ochreous 

 longitudinal streaks, the median vein and its upper branches lined with white ; a 

 transverse discal row of four small black dots : hindwing pale brownish-ochrcous. 

 Thorax pale pinkish-ochreous, abdomen pale yellowish-ochreous. 



Expanse I3 inch. 



Described from the figure quoted above. 



LEUCANIA EXEMPTA. 



Leucania exempta, Walker, Catal. Lep. Ilet. Brit. IMiis. xi. p. 710 (IS."), 



" Male. Pale testaceous : forewings slightly speckled with black in front, with 

 a white stripe, which extends along the costa for more than half the length and for 

 nearly half the breadth, contains a black dot, and joins a fawn-coloured spot at its 

 tip ; exterior and marginal dots black : hiudwiugs whitish, with brownish borders 

 and black marmnal dots. 



" Expanse 14 lines." 



Genus SENTA. 



Sentn, Stephens, lUust. Brit. Ent. Ilau.st. iv. p. 297 (1834); Gneiiee, Noct. i. p. 98; Walker, Catal. 

 Lep. Hat. B. M. ix. p. 117; Lederer, Noct. Eur. p. 122. 



Male. Forewing elongate, rectangular, narrow, costa slightly arched, apex 

 acute, exterior margin oblique, shghtly angular in the middle, posterior maro-in 

 slightly convex ; cell disposed towards the middle, narrow, extending to nearly two- 

 thirds the length ; costal vein at a wide distance from the margin ; first subcostal 

 emitted at nearly two-thirds before end of the cell, second at more than one-fourth, 

 trifid, the fifth from end of the cell and touching third near its base above end of the 

 cell ; discocellular concave in the middle, bent near lower end, radials from the upper 

 end and lower angle ; middle median from angle close to end of the cell, lower median 

 at one-thii'd before the end ; siibmediau slightly curved : hindwing somewhat lono-, 

 narrow, costa nearly straight, exterior margin recurved from the apex, anal maro-in 

 convex ; costal vein extending to apex ; two subcostal branches at one-fourth beyond 

 end of the cell; discocellular extremely slender, obliquely concave, radial from the 

 middle ; cell extending to half the wing ; two upper medians from end of the cell, 

 lower at one-third before the end ; submedian and internal vein straight. Body 



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