LEUCAXITIS. 283 



8089. Leucanitis christophi. (Plate CCXXVI. fig. 22.) 



Leucaniih christophi, Alpli. Iris, viii. p. 200 (1895) ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. 

 p. --MS. 



o . Head and thorax pale rufous ; antennte blackish ; palpi 

 white .slightly tinged with brown ; pectu.s and legs white, the tibiae 

 tinged with brown, the tarsi blackish ringed with white ; abdomen 

 white tinged with brown. Fore wing pale grey suffused and 

 in-orated wdth fuscous ; the basal area with some inifous on inner 

 half; subbasal black striae from costa and cell; antemedial line 

 strong, black, excurved and slightly waved, followed by a broad 

 pale grey band ; a faint dark medial line, excurved in the cell ; 

 renifonn with brown centre and whitish annulus, narrow and 

 constricted at middle ; postmedial line black, slightly bent out- 

 wards below costa, slightly angled outwards at veins 6 and 4 and 

 incurved between those points, at vein 3 retracted upwards to lower 

 angle of cell, then somewhat oblique and sinuous to inner margin, 

 the area beyond the cell and in the sinus of postmedial line with 

 faint rufous tinge ; postmedial area diirker ; subterminal line 

 slight, whitish, minutely waved, angled outwards below vein 7, 

 and incurved below vein 3 ; a slight waved blackish terminal line ; 

 cilia fuscous at base, brownish grey at tips. Hind wing white, 

 the basal and inner areas tinged wdth brown ; an oblique black 

 discoidal lunule, its lower extremity continent with the black 

 tenuinal area ; the termen with white spots at apex and discal fold 

 and an oblique spot below vein 2 ; cilia white, blackish at middle 

 and tinged with brown towards tornus. Underside of fore vdng 

 white, a black medial band confluent below vein 2 with the curved 

 postmedial band expanding and with irregular outer edge on costal 

 area, a black spot at apex and a patch at middle of terminal area 

 confluent with the postmedial band ; cilia white at base, blackish at 

 tips. 



5 . Fore wing witli the basal area more tinged with rufous, the 

 basal half of medial ai-ea darker and faintly tinged with nifous, 

 the postmedial line more incurved at discal fold and produced at 

 vein 4. 



Ab. 1. S ■ Fore wing with the postmedial line obsolescent 

 brownish. 



5 . Tliorax pale brown ; fore wnng with less blue-gi-ey on medial 

 and terminal areas. — Korla, Coll. Piingeler. 



Hah. Russia, Urals, Eurba, 1 c? , 1 $ ; Kirghistax, Sudersk ; 

 Mongolia, Korla, Saichin-Kette. Exp. S 32, $ 36 millini. 



8090. Leucanitis roda. 



EucUdia roda, Hcrr.-Schaff. Schniett. Eur. ii. p. 42i>, Noct. ff. .5(')l-2 



(1845) ; John, Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross, xxxix. p. 602, pi. xvi. fV. 1 a-c & 



2a-b, pi. xix. f. (5, & pi. xxii. f. 28. 

 Microphisa rada, Eoisd. Eull. Soc. Ent.. Fr. 1848, p. xxx ; Frr. Neiie 



Beitr. pi. 57(i. f. 4 (1852); Giien. Noct. iii. p. 58, pi. 13. f. 12 (1852) ; 



Ev. 13ull. Mosc. 1857, iv. p. 401 ; Staud. Cat. Lcp. pal. p. 213, 



