LEUCOCHL^ITA. — TJLOCHL^NA. 137 



on extremity of median nervure sometimes conjoined to the reniform, 

 which is narrow, white defined by brown, constricted at middle; a 

 medial brown line from origin of vein 2 to inner margin, excurved 

 in submedian interspace ; postmedial line absent ; snbterminal line 

 brown, slightly excurved below costa and incurved below vein 2 ; a 

 brown terminal line. Hind wing white slightly tinged with 

 rufous ; a small discoidal lunule, indistinct curved postmedial line, 

 and brown terminal line ; the underside with the costal area sufl^'used 

 with rufous. 



Hab. Mashonaland (Dobhie), 1 cJ type ; Xatal, Kratzkloof 

 (Field), 1 ^ . E.V2^. 32-36 millim. 



Genus ULOCHL^NA. 



Type. 

 Ulochlcsiia, Led. Noct. Eur. p. 96 (1857) htrfa. 



Pi'oboscis absent; palpi porrect to just bey oiicl frontal tuft, fringed with long 

 bail" below ; frons smooth ; eyes large, rounded ; antennae of male typically 

 bipectinatc witb long brandies to apex, of female ciliated : bead and thorax 

 clotbed with bair only and witbout crests ; tibia; fringed witb long bair ; 

 abdomen clotbed with long bair and witb lateral fringes of bair, witbout crests. 

 Fore wing ratber narrow, tbe costa soraewbat concave, tbe terineu obliquely 

 curved ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 

 anastomosing witb 8 to form tbe areole, 11 from cell. Hind wing witb veins 

 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 

 sbortly stalked ; 8 anastomosing witb tbe cell near base only. Female typically 

 witb tbe wings aborted and very much reduced. 



Sect. I. Antenna of male bipectinate witb long branches to apex ; wings of 

 female aborted and minute. 



A. Fore wing with tbe reniform angled inwards on median 



nervure and emitting strong teetb on veins 4, 3, 2 superba. 



B. Fore wing witb tbe reniform not angled inwards on median 



nervure or emitting teetb on veins 4, 3, 2 Idrta. 



*2244. Ulochlsena superba. 



JJlochlcEna siiperha, Alpb. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. sxvi. p. 447 (1892) ; id. 

 Eom. Mem. ix. p. 24, pi. 1. f. 7 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 178. 



S . Head, thorax, and abdomen brown tinged with ochreous. 

 Fore wing reddish brown ; an ochreous fascia in base of cell 

 and below costa to middle : an ochreous streak defined by black 

 below the cell to middle confluent with the claviform ; the basal 

 inner area tinged with ochreous ; an ochreous streak on median 

 nervure ; subbasal and antemedial lines absent ; orbicular ochreous 

 defined by black, elongate elliptical ; reniform ochreous defined by 

 black, rather narrow, angled inwards on median nervure and 

 emitting three strong teeth on veins 4, 3, 2 ; a quadrate ochreous 

 postmedial patch below costa confluent with a similar patch at apex, 

 some ochreous points on costa towards apex ; postmedial line 

 obsolete towards costa, ochreous and oblique from vein 4 to inner 

 margin ; a snbterminal series of ochreous striae from ajucal patch 

 to inner margin ; a terminal series of black striie ; cilia ochreous at 



