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Differs from inframicans in being darker ; the abdomen fuscous ; 

 hind wing dark fuscous ; cilia of both wings with fine pale and 

 dark lines through them. Underside of male without the silvery 

 areas and with a cell-spot and postmedial series of specks to hind 

 wing. 



Hob. Europe; N.W. Himalayas; Sikhim; Burma; Nilgtris. 

 Exp. 37 millim. 



1896. Lencania vittata, Hmpsn. Ill Het. viii. p. 69, pi. 144, fig. 4. 



c? . Ochreous white. Fore wing with red-brown suffusion in 

 and beyond the cell and beyond the apical oblique fascia ; a con- 

 spicuous black streak from the base below the median nervure ; 

 the white streak on median nervure short, broad, and edged with 

 black ; the veins of outer area streaked with white ; some black 

 beyond lower portion of the apical fascia ; a marginal series of 

 black specks ; cilia intersected with white. Hind wing with the 

 outer area suffused with fuscous. Underside pale ochreous ; the 

 fore wing suffused with fuscous, except the inner area and veins of 

 outer area ; hind wing with the costal and outer areas suffused 

 with fuscous. 



Hob. Nilgiris. Exp. 37 millim. 



B. Fore wing with the white streak on median nervure long and 

 narroiv, reduced to a point or obsolete. 



a. Fore wing witli the ground-colour ochreous. 



1897. Lencania vana, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1885, p. 453, pi. 27, fig. 9; 



C. 8f S. no. 2003. 



cJ . Pale ochreous ; palpi black at sides ; vertex of thorax with 

 a black patch centred with red-brown. Fore wings with the veins 

 pale-streaked ; a black mark on lobe of inner margin ; a broad 

 black fascia below median nervure from base to vein 2 ; black 

 patches beyond the cell betwen veins 2, 3 and 4, 6; a black 

 spot at centre of cell ; apical streak prominent, with diffused 

 fuscous on each side of it, and with black spots beyond it ; cilia 

 pinkish. Hind wing ochreous white. Underside immaculate. 



Hob. Poona. Exp. 28 inillim. 



1898. Leucania howra, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 337, pi. 37, tig. 16 ; 



C. $ S. no. 1677. 



Leucania basilinea, Swinh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 220, pi. vii, 

 tig. 6. 



3 . Head and thorax brownish ochreous ; abdomen white. 

 Fore wing brownish ochreous ; a prominent black-brown fascia 

 below median nervure from the base to origin of vein 2 ; a slight 

 white streak on median nervure; slight brown streaks in inter- 



