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IX. LEUCOMONIA gen. uov.— Typns : belhla. 



DUudia, Kirby {non Grote & Rob., 1865), Trans. Ent. Soc. Luiul. p. 24.3 (1877). 

 Mucriisila, Miskin {mm Walker, ISaO), Pror. Roy. Sim: Queenskl. viii. p. 24 (1891). 

 .Vfi/iinolnn, id. («w( Boisduval, 187;')), Cat. L/>j>. Ilet. i. p. 682 (1892). 



c??. Antenna (?) snbcYliiidrical, not impressed, ciliae not prolonged ; liook 

 (J'?) short, penultimate segment (and preceding ones) shorter than high. Eye 

 nut lashed. Tibiae not spiny ; foretibia and first segment of foretarsns rough witli 

 long scaling ; spines of row 2 .of first protarsal segment prolonged, apical spines 

 of the other segments also somewhat prolonged ; bristles of comb of midtarsns 

 sliorter than in Me(/unoton, the comb consisting also of fewer long bristles ; basal 

 s{)ines of third row of first hindtarsal segment little longer than the more distal 

 ones ; hindtarsns not much longer than the cell of the hindwing ; pnlvillus and 

 paronychium present, the latter without ventral flaps. D- of hindwing with a 

 rather long spur proximally running out into the middle fold of the cell, which fold 

 extends nearly to the base. 



6. Sexual armature similar to that oi Psilot/rammu. Patch of friction-scales 

 on clasper larger, comparatively sliorter. 



Early stages not known. 



Ilab. Australia. 



One species. 



20. Leucomonia bethia. 



*Dih„lm h'tlua Kirby, Tram. Ent. Soc. Loml. p. 243 (1877) (Rockhampton, ? ;— Mug. Dublin) ; 



Waterb., Ai,} Identif. Ins. ii. t. 140. f . 4 ( ? ) (1883). 

 .Uai-rosihi bethia, Miskin, Proc. Roi/. Soc. Qiicensld. viii. p. 20. n. 44 (1891) (Rockhampton). 

 Mcganoton bethui Kirby, Cat. Lcp. Het. i. p. 683. n. 19 (1892). 

 *.M,yanoton diatiiictHm Roth.scbild, Nov. ZooL. i. p. 89. t. 7. f. 12 (1894) (N. Queensland ;— Mus. 



Tring). 



S ? . Upperside of body and forewing and the whole underside almost 

 uniformly white, forewing with a black, tiiin but prominent, oblique apical line 

 which is almost straight. Hindwing blackish brown, grey-white in anal region. 



c?. Tenth tergite deeply divided into two slender processes which lie close 

 together ; sternite (PI. XL. f. 12) broad and short, sinuate, the lobes broad and 

 rounded. No free harpe. Penis-sheatli witli a short process similar to tliat of 

 Fsilograwma me.ni'phron. 



? . Vaginal plate with a small mesial sinus apically, jiroximal part of plate 

 much folded transversely, the folds irregular, mouth of vagina antemedian, the 

 postvaginal part of the plate somewhat convex mesially, slightly concave and 

 scaled laterally, with the rounded disto-lateral margins somewliat raised. 



llah. Queensland and West Australia ; rather rare in collections. 



In the Tring Museum 4 ? ? from : Queensland ; Derby District, West 

 Australia. 



A $ and 2 ? 9 in the Dublin Jluseum. 



