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N0CTUID.E. 



yellowish white between veins 6 and 3 with some black scales on 

 its outer edge, then almost obsolete and incurved, with a black 

 spot on it at inner margin and silvery blue mark before it on 

 vein 2, some white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line 

 slight and silvery white from below vein 4 to above vein 1, slightly 

 waved and angled inwards at vein 2, a fine white line beyond it on 

 termen ; some silvery blue scales on termen from apex to the white 

 line ; cilia red-brown, greyish at tips. Hind wing yellowish white 

 slightly irrorated with brown, except on inner area ; postmedial 

 and subterminal black striae from inner margin ; a terminal series 

 of brown striae ; cilia white, brownish at apex : the underside 

 yellowish white, the costal half irrorated with red-brown, a brown 

 discoidal spot with diffused bar above it from costa and a maculate 

 postmedial line incurved below vein 8. 



Hub. W. China, Ta-chien-lu (Pratt), 1 J ; Sikhim, 5000-10,000' 

 (Dudgeon, Pllcher), 1 J , 1 $ type. Exp. 36-42 millim. 



Genus LEUCOGONIA, nov. 



Type, L. eceieei. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porrect to well beyond frons, the 2nd joint 

 rather broadly scaled, the 3rd rather long, dilated at extremity and down- 

 turned ; frons with small truncate conical corneous prominence at middle and 

 corneous plate below it ; eyes large, round ; antennae of male almost simple ; 

 thorax clothed with hair mixed with some scales and without crests ; tibias 

 moderately fringed with hair ; abdomen clothed with rough hair towards base 

 and with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing broadly triangular, the apex 

 rounded, the termen oblique, nearly straight ; 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 the inner margin long; veins 3, 4 

 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars; 6, 7 from 

 upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



A. Hind wing with the terminal band expanding widely on 



apical area eceieei. 



B. Hind wing with the terminal band not expanding on apical 



area cebeensis. 



4921. Leucogonia eceieei. 



Zalissa ekeikei, Betb. -Baker, Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 211 (1906). 



Head ochreous slightly tinged with rufous ; palpi black-brown, 

 the extremity of 2nd joint and the 3rd joint white ; antennae whitish ; 



Fig. 213. — Leucogonia eceieei, rf ■ \. 



thorax dark brown mixed with bluish white and with broad dorsal 

 ochreous fascia tinged with rufous ; pectus and legs white and 



