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LEUCOilA FLAVESCEXS. 



Redoa flavescens, Moore, P. Z. S., 1877, p. 600. 



Levxoma fiavcsccns, Hmpsn., Moths, India, i, p. 488 (1892). 



Bedoa sericea, Moore, 1. c. 



3 ^, Andamans, including both types. 1 ^ ,1 ^, Xilgiri 

 Hills. 2 ^, Travancore. 



Leucoma pruixosa. 



Leucoma pruinosa, Butler, Ann. Mag. N. H. (5\ iv, p. 236 



(1879). 

 Arctornis pruinosa, Kirby, Cat. Moths, i, p. 433 (1892). 



1 $ , Madagascar (type). 

 Leucoma xitida, nov. 



(J , ? . Palpi, fore-legs and frons orange oclireous : top of head, 

 middle and liind legs, body and wings above and below pure white ; 

 antenna? with the shaft white, branches ochreous grey ; thorax of the 

 male suffused with orange ochreous ; fore-wings with a beautiful 

 silvery sheen, with thin longitudinal curved waves in certain lights ; 

 the first runs from base to apex, the second from hinder margin near 

 base to outer margin above the middle, and the third from the middle 

 of the hinder margin to outer margin below the middle. Costal line 

 and cilia ochreous grey ; hind-wings without the sheen and without 

 any markings. 



Expanse of wings ^ If^, 5 2^^ inches. 



$ $, types. Old Calabar (,<?. D. Crompton and F. ]V. 

 Sampson). 1 $, Ogove River. 1 $, Lagos {H. Strachan). 

 1 ?, Sapele, River Niger. 1 $, Gold Coast ( W. H. Jolvastm). 



Leucoma luteipes. 

 Stilpnotia luteipes. Walker, iv, 843, $ (1855). 

 Homceoineria luteipes, Kirby, Cat. Moths., i, p. 437 (1892). 

 Bedoa laha, Schaus and Clements, Lep. Sierra Leone, p. 



25, pi. 1, f. 4 ^ (1893). 

 Bedoo. ogovcnsis, Holland, Ent. News, Phil., 1893, p. 63, pi. 

 3, f. 12, 13. 



2 <^, 2 $, Sierra Leone, including the type. 1 ^, Old 

 Calabar. 1 $, Ogove River. 



There can be no doubt that laha is its male : the locality 

 and description tit it exactly ; and I have compared an 

 example from Mr. Druce's collection, given him by Dr. 

 Holland as ogovcnsis, with Walker's type : these are also 

 identical. 



