LEUCANIA. 273 



1903. Leucania abdominalis, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 338 ; C. $ S. 



no. 1656. 



Whitish ochreous. Fore wing with the veins indistinctly pale- 

 streaked ; the streak on median nervure long, narrow, and 

 indistinct ; the dark suffusion below median nervure and outlining 

 the apical fascia narrow and often slight ; an indistinct postmedial 

 curved series of dark specks, and in some specimens a marginal 

 series. Hind wing white suffused with fuscous. Underside grey 

 irrorated with dark scales ; fore wing with the disk fuscous ; a 

 postmedial spot on costa ; hind wing with cell-spot and postmedial 

 series of specks. 



Hob. Dharmsala ; Khandala ; Bengal. Exp. 39 millim. 



1904. Leucania sinuosa, Moore, Lep. Aik. p. 102 ; C. fy S. no. 1693. 



Head and thorax ochreous white ; abdomen fuscous, ochreous at 

 extremity. Pore wing ochreous white; a diffused dark brown 

 streak along median nervure, expanding from beyond end of cell to 

 the outer margin below apex ; a black spot at centre of cell ; a 

 white streak on median nervure expanding into a spot at the angle 

 of cell, often disconnected from the streak ; denticulate ante- and 

 postmedial curved black lines ; a series of dark marginal and cilial 

 spots. Hind wing dark fuscous. Underside with postmedial and 

 marginal series of black specks ; hind wing with a prominent cell- 

 spot. 



One specimen from E. Pegu is slightly redder ; the dark orbicular 

 and reniform stigmata larger ; the ante- and postmedial sinuous 

 lines much less prominent. 



Hcib. Dharmsala ; Sikhim ; E. Pegu. Exp. 38 millim. 



1905. Leucania denticula, Hmpsn. Ill Set. ix, p. 90, pi. 161, fig. 10. 



5 . Differs from sinuosa in wanting the dark brown fascia below- 

 median nervure of fore wing and beyond the cell, so that the dark 

 quadrate reniform stands out as conspicuously as the orbicular ; 

 the white on median nervure almost obsolete. 



Hob. Ceylon. E.rp. 44 millim. 



1906. Leucania exempta, Wlk. Cat. xi, p. 710 ; C. $ S. no. 1671. 

 Leucania costalis, Moore, P. Z. S. 1877, p. 603, pi. 59, fig. 11 ; 



C. $ S. no. 1666. 



. Differs from denticula in the reniform stigma being rufous ; 

 the ante- and postmedial lines less prominent ; the hind wing 

 paler. 



ffab. Sikhim ; Malabar ; Ceylon ; Burma ; Andamans. Exp. 

 38 millim. 



1907. Leucania v-album, Hmpsn. III. Net. viii, p. 69, pi. 144,fig. 10. 

 Differs from sinuosa in the fore wing being slightly suffused 



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