LEUCOSIGMA. 127 



yellowish at base, red-brown at tips. Hind wing yellowish white 

 tinged with red-brown ; cilia yellowish white ; the underside with 

 the costal area tinged with rufous, a slight discoidal lunule. 



Hub. Madagascar, Eetsileo (Cowan), 1 (S type, i^.t-^j. 30 millim. 



Genus LEUCOSIGMA, noy. 



Type. L. uncifera. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, slender, tlie 2nd joint i-eaching to 

 rert-ex of head, the 3rd niodertite ; trons smooth; eyes large, round ; antenna; 

 of male ciliated ; thorax clothed chiefly with scales, the pro- and uietathorax 

 with spreading crests ; tibijE moderately fringed with hair, the inner spurs long ; 

 abdomen with some rough hair at base, but without crests. Fore wing witli 

 the apex rectangular, tlie termen excised from vein G to 4 where it is angled, 

 then oblique aud crenulate; veins o and 5 frona near angle of cell; 6, 7 from 

 upper angle; 8, 9, 10 stalked; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the termen 

 slightly excised at discoidal fold ; veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent 

 from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with 

 cell near base only. 



*4462. Leucosigma uncifera. 



Leucosigma wicifera, Druce, A. M. N. H. (8) i. p. 302 (1898). 



cJ . Head and thorax fiery red mixed with some yellow ; frons 

 with lateral white spots ; basal joint of antennte white in front ; 

 tibite and tarsi rufous ; abdomen white suffused with red-brown, 

 the anal tuft with fiery red mixed. Fore wing fiery red mixed with 

 yellow, white aud some brown, the veins streaked with brown ; a 

 subbasal white striga from costa to an irregular white patch in base 

 of cell ; antemedial line represented by an oblique brown striga 

 from costa and oblique line from vein 2 near its origin to inner 

 margin, both defined by white on inner side ; a crescentic white 



Fig. 39. — Leucosigma uncifera, J. ]-. 



spot ill and below end of cell expanding into white spots at inner 

 extremity and at upper angle of cell, defined by dark brown ; au 

 oblique minutely waved brown lino from vein 5 just beyond tlie 

 cell to inner margin ; postmedial line brown defined by white ou 

 outer side, bent outwards and obsolescent below costa, then dentate, 

 oblique to vein 4, then inwardly oblique, some white points beyond 

 it on costa; a diffused oblique wliitc bar from apex; a terminal 

 series of small white lunules. Hind wing white suffused with red- 



