CEROCALA. — LEUCA>1TIS. 279 



witli the branches blackish ; thomx grey-brown with a silvery 

 gloss, the base of teguhe creamy white ; pectus and legs jjale 

 bx'own, the mid tibia; with tine brown streaks ; abdomen grey- 

 brown. Fore wing grey-brown ; some silvery scales at base ; 

 minvite subbasal black striae from costa and cell ; antemedial line 

 black, oblique, strong except at costa, slightly angled outwards 

 below costa, defined on inner side by silvery scales ; orbicular and 

 reniform with silvery centres strongly defined by black, the former 

 small, round ; postmedial line black, oblique to below vein 3, then 

 retracted to lower edge of renifoi'ni and oblique to inner margin, 

 the area beyond it suffused with black to the subterminal line, 

 with an oblique silvery line be^'ond the postmedial line from costa 

 to vein 3, then interrupted and incm'ved from the sinus of the 

 postmedial line to inner margin ; subterminal line only defined by 

 the contrast between the postmedial and terminal areas, angled 

 inwards at discal fold, excurved at middle, and incurved below 

 vein 3 ; a slight waved dark terminal line. Hind wing whitish 

 strongly suffused with grey-brown ; a fuscous brown sinuous band 

 from costa beyond middle to tornus, diffused on inner side and 

 defined on outer side by whitish ; a slight dark terminal line. 

 Underside of fore wing brownish grey, a dark discoidal patch with 

 whitish patches before and beyond it, an oblique dark postmedial 

 band expanding at costa ; hind wing whitish tinged Avith brown, 

 the costa brown, a blackish discoidal lunule, sinuovTs postmedial 

 brown band, and terminal band fi-om apex to vein 2. 



Hab. Masiionalaxd, Umtali (Marshall), 1 5 ; Rhodesia, 

 Bulawayo {Ei/Ies), 1 $ ; Tra>"svaal, Piet Retief {Crawshay), 4^6 , 

 2 $, White K. {Cooke), 1 c? , Rietfontein (Janse), 1 d, Eerstel 

 (Janse), 1$, Johannesburg, (Crer/oe), 1 J, Pretoria (Distant), 

 1 c? , 1 $ ; Natal, Malvern (Marshall), 1 $ , Durban (Boivker), 

 1 2 ; Cape Colo>-y, Annshaw (Miss F. Barrett), 1 S , 2 $ . 

 Exp. 32-40 millim. 



Genus LEUCANITIS. 



Type. 

 Leucanitis, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 58 (1852) roda. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reacliing about to 

 vertex of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd moderate ; froiis smooth ; eyes 

 large, round ; antenna; of male ciliated ; thorax clothed with hair and scales 

 mixed, the metathorax with spreading crest; tibia; smoothly scaled, the fore 

 tibia; with more or less develojied claws on inner and outer sides at extremity, 

 the bind tibiae not spined ; abdomen smoothly scaled and without crests. 

 Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved, crenulate ; veins 

 '6 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 cell half the 

 length of wing ; veins 3, 4 from angle ; 5 fully developed from above angle ; 

 G, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



Sect. I. Fore tibiae with the claws well developed. 



A. Fore wing with the ante- and postmedial lines conjoined 



at suhniedian fold and not extending to inner margin ... cabi/laria. 



