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shape, the longitudinal ferruginous-brown fascia also narrower and less defined, and 

 the spots less distinct : hindwing darker ochreous-yellow. Body also darker coloured. 

 Expanse \\ inch. 



From the Collection of the late Dr. Thwaites. 



Genus LEOCYMA. 



Leoci/ma, Giu'nee, Noct. ii. p. 212 (1852). 



Chasiniiia, Walker, Catal. Lv[>. Het, B. M. ix. [). 146 (1S.5G). 



Male. Forewing moderately short and broad, costal margin slightly recurved, apex 

 pointed, exterior margin erect, posterior margin convex towards the base ; cell narrow, 

 extending towards middle of the wing; costal vein recurved; subcostal branches 

 curved upwards, first subcostal emitted at one-third before end of tlie cell, second at 

 one-tenth, trifid, fifth and upper radial on a footstalk beyond end of the cell, the 

 fifth touching third subcostal near its base ; discocellular concave, lower radial from 

 near its lower end ; middle median from angle close to end of the cell, lower at one- 

 third before the end; submedian recurved : hindwing short, broad, apex and exterior 

 margin convex; two subcostals from end of the cell, discocellular bent below the 

 middle, radial from the angle ; two upper medians from end of the cell, lower at 

 about one-third ; submedian and internal vein slightly curved. Female : forewing 

 somewhat longer ; costa almost straight, exterior margin slightly oblique, posterior 

 margin less convex : fifth subcostal from end of the cell ; upper radial from slight 

 angle at upper end of the discocellular. Body stout, thorax broad, palpi narrow, 

 ascending to vertex, first joint laxly squamose, second joint long, compactly squaraose, 

 third joint thickish, conical ; antennae simple ; legs stout, middle and hind tibisy 

 spurred. 



LEOCYMA DIAN.! (Plate 149, Fig. 5). 



Leoci/ma Diancp, Giu'iiee, Noct. ii. p. 213 (18.52). 



Chasmina ghihra, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxii. p. 636 (I860). 



Both wings pearly-white, smooth, shining, immaculate. Head with a ferruginous 

 band in front ; abdomen slightly ochreous above ; palpi ochreous above ; forelegs 

 ochi-eous above, the fore femora with a longitudinal black streak, fore tibia? and tarsi 

 with black spots. 



Expanse If to If inch. 



Genus BRANA. 



Brana, Walker, Catal. Lep. Ilet. B. M. xiii. p. 1099 (1857). 



Male : forewing elongate, somewhat triangular ; apex slightly rounded, exterior 

 ■^nargin very oblique; first subcostal emitted at nearly one-half before end of the 

 cell, second at one-fifth, trifid, thiid thrown off at one-fifth from base of second and 



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