l;i| NOCTDID.*:. 



bent outwnnlB holow oostn, then dontato, below vein 4 bi-nt inwards 

 to below rciiiform. o1>solot(' towards iniur marfrin, some white points 

 ])evond it on costn: sublerniinal line white delined on inner side by 

 dentate black marks and on outer by rufous, nearly evenly curved 

 from costa to submedian fold, where it is incurved ; a terminal senes 



Fig. 38. — Leucochta>)ia hi.<pida, J . ', . 



of small black luniilcs defined by Avhitish on inner side ; cilia 

 ochreous brown and fuscous at base, pale at tips. Hind wing 

 brownish white with sinuous postmedial line and diffused brown 

 subterminal band, in female more suffused with brown ; a dark 

 terminal line : cilia whitish : the underside white slightly irrorated 

 with brown, a dark discoidal spot and siuuoiis postmedial line. 



Hah. Britain, Leech Coll. ; S. Fkaxce, Zeller and Sand Colls. ; 

 f^PATX, Leech Coll. Catalonia, Andalusia ; Sicily ; Algeria ; 

 Palestine. Exp. 28-30 millim. 



Larva. :Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. r)0; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. liC.O, pi. IfJo. f. ;'.. 



Yellow-green or brownish ; dorsal and subdorsal lines pale, dark- 

 edged : s])iraoular line broad, yellowish white: tubercles black. 

 Food-plants: Grasses. lU-4. 



*2230. Leucochlaena hirsuta. 



Hcru>i>hoht(.< liirsii! !(.■<, Slaud. Iris, iv. p. 1^77 (1801); id. Cat. Lep. pal. 

 p. 177. 



d . Head and thorax brownish grey ; palpi, pectus, and abdomen 

 Yellowish. Fore wing dirty grey-brown, the lines and veins dark 

 delined by whitish; antcniedial line excurved below the cell; 

 orbicular elongate obli'pie, with pale centre delined by fuscous and 

 whiti.sh annulus delined by black; reniform with dark centre and 

 pale annulus delined by black on inner side only ; postmedial line 

 strongly bent outwards below costn, excurved to vein f, then 

 incurved; a pale waved subtenuiiiul line with three deutalc black 

 marks before it on inner hall; a line black terminal line; cilia 

 fuscous with tine pale lines at base and middle. Hind wing dirty 

 white slightly tinged with fuscous towards lermeu ; the underside 

 with some dark irroratiou and a discoidal point. 



//(i/». Asia Mini.r, Marasch. Exit. 28 millim. This species is 

 unknown to me. 



