•lA XOCTUID-K. 



7S14. Euclidisema delta. 



Oj)}uusa delta, Eoisd. Faun. Ent. Mad., Lep. p. 105. pi. 13. f. 1 (ISHS). 

 Grammudes crestoniou, Snell. Tijd. v. Eiit. xlv. p. UU, pi. 8. f. 3 (1002). 



Head and tliorax reddish-brown, the head with some whitish 

 above frons and beliind ; legs and abdomen grev-brown ; pectu.s 

 and ventral sui-faee of abdomen wliitish tinged with brown. Fore 

 wing deep ehoeolate-brown, the eostal -ayva grev tinged with brown 

 except at apex; an oblique white fascia from base of subcostal 

 nervm-e to vein 1 just befcjre torinis ; the dark area defined above 

 except towards base and on outer side by strong white lines ; a 

 dark terminal line sli"-htlv defined on inner side bv grev from below 

 apex to tornus ; cilia grey with a fine white line at base. Hind 

 wing dull reddish brown, a dark terminal line ; cilia whitish, 

 brown at apex, then Avith brown line near base ; the underside 

 whitish, the costal and terminal areas broadly suffused with red- 

 brown, a small brown spot on upper discocellular. 



Hah. Za>zibar {de Ja Garde), 1 <5 ; Br. E. Africa, Taveta 

 {Rogers), 1 $ , Tanga (Sollis), 1 d" ; Mashoxaland, (Bobbie), 

 1 d" ; BECurAXALA^B, Lake N'Gami {Ltir/ard), 1 S ; Traxsvaal 

 (Pead), 1 $ ; Cape Colo>y, Plettenbm-g Bay, 1 § ; Madagascar 

 {Kitcliing), 1 6\ Aldabra (Meride-Waldo), 1 6; Amirantes, 

 D'Arros I. (-B. Fletcher), 1 $ ; Mauritius ; Celebes, Menado. 

 my. 30-38 millim. 



Genus LEUCOMELAS, nov. 



I'ype, L.jiivenilU. 



Proboscis Cidiy developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reacliing to vertex 

 of head and niodeiately scaled, the '6ri.\ moderate; frons smooth, witii tuft of 

 hair above; eyes ratlier small and ellijitical ; r.niennaj of male minutely 

 cili;ited ; thorax clotlied witli scaUs and liair mixed and without crests ; tibire 

 slif^htly fringed with hair, the fore tibiie not spined, the hind tibiaj strongly 

 spined ; abdomen sinooLidy scaled and without crests. Fore wing short and 

 broad, the apex rounded, tJie termen evenly curved and net crenulate; veins 

 3 and 5 froui near angle of cell ; (> from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing 

 with S to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the cell about 

 one-third length of wing ; veins 3, 4 from angle ; 5 fully developed from just 

 above angle; 0, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base 

 only. 



Ai/nomonia juvenilis, Brem. Lep. Ost-Sib. p. Gl , pi. ."i. f. IS (1864) ; Staud. 

 " Cat. Lep. pal. p. 242. 



7815. Leiicomelas juvenilis. 



His, Brem. Lep. Ost-Sib. p. Gl, pi. .' 

 p. 242. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen black-brown slightly mixed with 

 grey ; antenna' with the shaft white above towards base ; palpi and 

 legs strongly irrorated with white ; pectus and ventral surface of 

 abdomen grey-white. Fore wing black-brown ; a creamy-white 

 band from costa beyond mi<l(lle to torims, its outer edge angled 

 otitwanls at vein (5, then nttrrowing Id tornus, the costal edge 



