590 NOCTUID.^. 



Genus LEUCANIA. 



Type. 



Leucania, Ochs. Sehmett. Eur. iv. p. 81 (1(S1()), non descr. ; 



Treit. Schniett. Eur. v. (II.) p. 289 (1825) paUens. 



Donachlora, Sodoffsky, Bull. Soc. Nat. Moss. 18;i7, vi. p. 14 . palleiis. 



IrhneuHca, Meyr. Trans. N.Z. Inst. xix. p. 13 (1887) ceraimias. 



Heliophila, IBLViha.. T^nt. ined pallens. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint frinorfd with hair, 

 the 3rd short, porrect ; frons smooth; pyes large, rounded ; antenna of male 

 typically ciliated ; head and thorax clothed with hair only and without crests ; 

 tibiaj moderately fringed with hair ; abdomen with rough hair at base but 

 without crests. Fore wing with veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from 

 upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. 

 Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of 

 discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near 



Sect. I. (^Ichneutica). Antennae of male bipectinate, with long branches to 

 apex. 



A. Fore wing with black fasciae below base of cell and above 



inner margin before middle ceraunias. 



B. Fore wing without black fasciae dione. 



*2036. Leucania ceraunias. 



Ichneutica cera.unim, Meyr. Trans. N.Z. Inst. xix. p. 13 (1887); Hudson, 

 N. Zealand Moths & Butterflies, p. 14, pi. iv. ff. 25, 26. 



S . Head and thorax reddish ochreous ; palpi blackish at sides ; 

 abdomen ochreous tinged with brown. Fore wing ochreous tinged 

 with rufous, the costal area and cell pale ochreous. emitting dentate 

 marks along veins 6, 4, 3 to towards termen ; the area below sub- 

 median fold ochreous ; a fine black streak in submedian fold to 

 middle with a shorter streak below it ; an oblique streak above 

 inner margin before middle. Hind wing ochreous suffused with 

 fuscous brown ; the cilia pale at tips ; the underside ochreous, the 

 veins and inner half tinged with brown. 



2 . Fore wing narrower, the colour dull brown instead of 

 rufous. 



Hah. New Zealand, Mt. Arthur, ^bW {Hudson),m Coll. Druce. 

 Exp. 44 millim. 



*2037. Leucania dione. 



Ichneutica dione, Hudson, N. Zealand Moths & Butterflies, p. 14, pi. iv. 

 f. 27 (1898). 



(^ . Head, thorax, and abdomen fuscous brown. Fore wing fuscous 

 brown, the medial area rather darker ; an oblique whitish fascia from 

 median nervure before middle to vein 1 beyond middle ; reniform 

 whitish, angled outwards at upper extremity and inwards to a long 

 dentate mark on median nervure ; terminal area greyer, with series of 

 dentate brown marks representing the subterminal line and terminal 

 series of lunules. Hind wing pale grey. 



Hah. New Zealand, Mt. Arthur, 4400'. ExpAQ millim. This 

 species is unknown to me. 



