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narrow, the outer margin l>eing longer than the hinder margin, the 

 hinder angle well rounded. 

 Expanse of wings lyV inches. 



Hah. River Niger, Sapele {F. W. Saiwpson). 

 Leucoma rufimarginata, UOV. 



(J , $ . Pure silky white ; palpi and branches of antenna?, body 

 beneath, and legs ochreous grey, the last wnth some dark brown 

 spots ; costa of fore-wings rufous ; a spot of that colour at the end of 

 the cell, and the outer margins and cilia of both wings rufous, except 

 at tlie angles. 



Expanse of wings (^ 1 inch, $ H inches. 



2 ^ , 1 $ , Pulo Laut. 



Allied to L. sulmarginata, Walker, but has no white 

 frons, and no black and yellow sjwts and markings on the 

 fore-legs. 



Leucoma primula, nov. 



(J, ?. Palpi chestnut-brown, whitish beneath and on the inner 

 sides ; antennae grey, the shafts pale primrose ; frons dark chestnut- 

 brown ; legs, body, and wings above and below of a uniform pale 

 primrose colour ; fore-wings with the apical third of the costa and 

 the outer margin, including the cilia, dark chestnut-lirown, a small 

 sjmce just before the hinder angle not coloured ; hind-wings with 

 the outer marginal line and cilia from a little before the middle to 

 near the anal angle similarly coloured ; a very small brown dot in the 

 middle of the discoidal vein of the fore-wings. The fore-wings are 

 broad, and the hinder margin is nearly as long as the costa. 



Expanse of wings (^ 1^% 5 rrr inches. 



Hah. Sangir (Bohcrtif). 



Leucoma micacea. 

 Bedoa micacea, Walker, Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond., vi, p. 127 



(1862). 

 Leucoma micacea. Swinhoe, Cat. Het. Mns. Oxon., i, p. 203 

 (1892). 

 4 ^ , Sarawak, Borneo, including the type. 



Leucoma flora, nov. 



^ . Palpi and antenna^ pale chestniit ochreous, shaft of antenn;^? 

 grey speckled with white ; frons pure white ; top of head white ; 

 space between the antenna? chestnut-brown ; fore-legs with brown 



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