306 RHOPALOCERA AFRICA AUSTRALI3. 



Genus LEUCOCHITONEA. 



Leucochitonea, Wallgr. 



Imago. — Head not so wide as thorax, with tufts at bases 

 of antennae : antennae rather short, with a rather gi^adually- 

 formed, cylindrical, obtuse-ending club ; palpi with last 

 joint short, naked, obtuse, exserted a little beyond pube- 

 scence of second joint. Thorax shorter than abdomen, npt 

 very robust. Fore-wings elongate : costa nearly straight, 

 but little arched at base ; hi'.id-margin entire ; inner-margin 

 straight. Hind-wings rounded, slightly prominent at anal 

 angle ; costa at base very convex, thence nearly straight. 

 Legs rather slender : tibise smooth ; fore coxae tufted with 

 hair. Abdomen not extending to anal angle of hind-wings. 



Wallengren has founded this Genus on a single species 

 discovered by Wahlberg, which is white with narrow black 

 edges to the wings. The generic name does not apply well 

 to the colours of the species I have added, L. bicolorf which 

 is yellow with black markings. 



200. Leucochitonea Levubu. 



Leucochitonea Levubu, Wallgr., X^fip- Rhop. Caffr., p. 5^. 

 Exp. 1 in. 4 lin. — 1 in. 5 lin. 



White, with narrow black margins, Fore-zving : costa and 

 hind-margin rather narrowly edged throughout ; a sub- 

 marginal black streak, slightly converging towards hind- 

 iparginal black, and becoming obsolete about submedian ner- 

 vure; before this, a curved black streak from costa beyond mid- 

 dle extends to 1st median nerule, where it joins submarginal 

 streak ; all nervules, betwee?i curved streak and costa and 

 hind-margin, clouded tvith black, as we 1 as (more slightly) 

 those in lower half of wing, near hind-margin. Hind-wing : 

 hind-margin with a narr.w edge, becoming broad at anal 

 angle, whence it radiates on nervules (chiefly along sub- 

 median nervure, which is clouded throughout. Under- 

 side. — As above. Hind-ivmg : inner-margin edged with 

 black ; a black streak between it and sub-median nervure ; 

 median nervules black towards hind-margin — especially the 

 third, between which and sub-median nervure is a black ray ; 

 a broad black clouding conspicuously marks basal half of 

 costal nervure. Cilia white, black-spotted at ends of 

 nervules ; at anal angle wholly white. 



