282 NOCTUID.E. 



8088. Leucanitis picta. (Plat<i CCXXVI. lig. 21.) 



Leucaiiifh picta, Christ, llor. Soc. Kiit, Ross. xii. p. 257, pi. 7. f. 28 



(1877) ; Sliiiid. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 24^. 

 Lsiicanitis radapicta, St/fiud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 243 (1901). 



Head jiiul thorax reddish l)rown mixed with white and some 

 blaeki.sli ; anteniue fuscous ; palpi, pectus, and leg.s white, tlie i)alpi 

 and legs irrorated with fuscous ; abdomen ochreous white irrorated 

 w'itli brown, the ventral surface white. Fore wing reddish brown 

 mixed with white and suffused in parts with fuscous brown, the 

 medial area white tinged with ochreous and with fuscous brown 

 towards costa ; double subbasal black striae from costa and cell ; 

 antemedial line black defined on outer side by white, an indistinct 

 sinuous line before it with some dark streaks before it on the veins ; 

 reniform with white annulus and its centre defined by blackish, 

 a diffused white patch beyond it before the po.stmedial line, which 

 is black, slightly bent outwards below costa, obliquely downcurved 

 to vein 6, angled outwards at veins 4, 3, then bent inwards to 

 lower edge of reniform and sinuous to inner margin, another faint 

 line beyond it defined on outer side by whitish ; subterminal line 

 white defined on inner side by small somewhat dentate black marks 

 and on outer side by rufous with minute black streaks at the veins, 

 slightly excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; the terminal area 

 suffused with white, with an oblique black mark from apex and 

 some black suffusion at middle of termen ; a waved black terminal 

 line ; cilia white mixed with red-brown and with a brown line 

 through them except towards apex. Hind wing white, the cell 

 and inner area suffused with fuscous brown, the terminal half 

 fuscous brown, its inner edge joined at vein 2 by an oblique 

 discoidal bar ; a blackish spot at middle of termen defined above by 

 some white in discal fold and below by an oblique white bar ; cilia 

 white with some brown at base at middle. Underside white, both 

 Avings with obli(}ue discoidal band connected below with a post- 

 medial band confluent with patches on terminal areas at apex and 

 middle, the band cm-ved on fore wing, sinuous on hind wing. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the medial area browner and with less 

 ochreous. 



Ab. 2. radapicta. Kather larger ; fore wing more uniform 

 brown .—Kirghistan . 



Hah. KiRoirrsTAx, 1 cf » 1- $ ; ? Sybia ; W. Turkestan; 

 TuANSCASi'lA, Krasnowvodsk (C/irisfoph), 1 cT , 2 5 . Tedschen Oasis 

 (Jfauser), 2 c? , 1 $, Imam-baba {Koshanfschikqff'),1 S -, Turco- 

 mania, Issyk-Kul; E. Turkestan, Ili, Kuldja, 3 d , 1 $. Ejcp. 

 3G-42 miliim. 



Sect. II. Fore tibia; with the claws minute. 



A. Hind witig with white spots on termen at ape.x and discal 



fold chrhlQithi. 



B. Hiiul wing without white spots on termen at apex and discal 



fold ruda. 



