IDG On neic Leucanise //•<?/« British New Guinea. 



The next species here dealt witli is Thecla ericasa*, 

 described by Hewltson from a female Brazilian specimen in 

 the collection of the late VV. W. Saunders. I have been 

 unable to trace this type, but the figure is an excellent one, 

 and there should be no difficulty in identifying it. Sliortly 

 afterwards Ilewitson describes the male under the name 

 Thecla voconiaf from an unknown locality. This t^'pc is 

 now in tlie British Museum, and without doubt = r. ericusa. 



There are specimens from Venezuela (one female) and Rio 

 (one male) in Mr. Godman's possession which were formerly 

 in the Kaden Collection, and one female from Minas Geraes 

 (Bates), also two males and two females from Chapida, 

 Brazil, obtained by Mr. H. H. Smith, and two miles from 

 Paraguay (Perrens). 



T. ericusa, which varies much in size, is at once distin- 

 guished in the male from T. spurina by possessing a simple 

 brand on the fore wing placed just beyond the en I of tliecell, 

 whilst that species has a double brand partly placed in the 

 cell and partly beyond. Tlie possession of this simple brand 

 probably points to its near alliance with Thecla bresciaX, a 

 well-known Central-American species. 



XIX. — On Tioo neiv Leucaniie from British New Guinea. 

 By GeokCtE T. Bethune-Bakek^ F.L.S., F.Z.8. 



Leucania Iciicosphenia, sp. n. 



(J . Head and collar oclireous brown^ patagiae and thorax 

 reddish ochreous ; abdomen pale ochreous brown, with a 

 large pale yellowish anal tuft ; legs pale ochreous brown, 

 with dark reddish femora. Primaries pale ochreous brown, 

 with all the veins palely outlined and a pale dash at the 

 lower angle of the cell ; cell filled in with pale reddish, with 

 a like-coloured basal dash on its lower margin ; a pale patch 

 below the centre of the cell ; a double postmcdial row of 

 dark dots ; a greyish wedge-shaped mark on the termen 

 below the apex ; termen darkly dotted, inner margin pale, 



* 77iecla ericusa, llcw. 111. Diurn. Lep. p. 113, t. xlii. fig. 162 (1807). 



t Thecla voconia, Hew. 111. Diurn. Lep. p. 120, t. xlix. tigs. 244. 24-3 

 (1860). 



X Thecla hrescin, Hew. Desc. Lvc. p. 13 (1868); 111. Diuni. Lep. 

 p. IIU, t. 1. tigs. 260, 261 (1860). 



