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Leucania exterior, Wlk. Cat. ix, p. 106 ; C. 8? S. no. 1673. 

 Leucania designata, Wlk. Cat. ix, p. 107 ; C. Sf S. no. 1669. 

 Leucania tenebrifera, Wlk. Cat. ix, p. 113. 

 Leucania collects, Wlk. Cat. ix, p. 105 ; C. $ S. no. 1663. 

 Leucania denotata, Wlk. Cat. ix, p. 107 : C. $ S. no. 1668 

 Leucania thoracica, Wlk. Cat. ix, p. 106 ; C. 8f S. no. 1696. 

 Leucania albistigma, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 337, pi. 37, fig. 9 ; 

 C. 8f S. no. 1659. 



Ochreous. Fore wing with a dark or red-brown suffusion on 

 median nervure and outlining the obscure apical fascia ; a post- 

 medial curved series of specks ; a white speck at lower angle of 

 cell. Hind wing seinihyaline white. Underside immaculate. 

 Some specimens have the head, thorax, abdomen, and fore wing 

 smoky brown, irrorated with dark specks ; hind wing with some 

 fuscous on outer margin. 



Hab. Europe; throughout India, Burma, and Ceylon. Exp. 

 34-42 millim. 



1912. Leucania fragilis, Butl. P. Z. S. 1883, p. 160; C. $ S. no. 2005. 



Grey-brown. Fore wing with indistinct waved ante- and post- 

 medial lines, the latter carved ; a white speck at lower angle of 

 cell. Hind wing pale with a slight brown tinge. 



A specimen from the Chindwara district is darker than typical 

 specimens ; the larva there does much damage to wheat. 



Hab. Simla ; Dharmsala ; Chindwara district, Central Provinces. 

 Exp. 30-32 millim. 



c. Fore wing with the ground-colour pale brown, brick-red, or 

 yellowish ; orbicular and reniform stigmata traceable. 



a'. Males without paired tufts on basal segment of abdomen below. 



1913. Leucania unipuncta, Haw. Lep. Brit. p. 174 (1803). 

 Leucania extranea, Guen. Noct. i, p. 77, no. 104; C. fy S. 



no. 1674. 



Leucania antica, Wlk. Cat. ix, p. 100. 

 Leucania convecta, Wlk. Cat. xi, p. 711. 

 Leucania separata, Wlk. Cat. xxxii, p. 626. 

 Leucania adusta, Moore, P. Z. & 1881, p. 335 ; C. 8f S. no. 1657. 

 Leucania consimilis, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 336, pi. 37, fig, 19 



C. $ S. no. 1665. 



Leucania trifolii, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1882, p. 114. 

 Leucania saccharivora, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1882, p. 115. 



Pale brick -red or very pale brown and irrorated with dark 

 specks and blotches. Fore wing with slight traces of the orbicular 

 and reniform stigmata ; a minute white speck at lower angle of cell 

 with a black speck inside it ; fairly prominent postinedial and 

 marginal series of black specks, the former curved ; an indistinct 

 oblique dark apical streak. Hind wing pale suffused with fuscous, 

 in the red specimens less suffused towards base. Underside of 



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