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1935. Leucania bifascia, Hmpsn. III. Het. ix, p. 91, pi. 161, fig. 6. 



Whitish with a slight pink tinge; thorax black-brown; fore 

 wing with a black-brown fascia from base, becoming very broad in 

 and beyond the end of cell ; a white speck at lower angle of cell ; 

 postmedial and marginal series of specks ; veins rather pale. Hind 

 wing pinkish fuscous. 



Hob. Ceylon. Ex-p. 31 millim. 



1936. Leucania proleuca. 



Axylia albicosta, Hmpsn. III. Het. viii, p. 70, pi. 144, fig. 20 

 (prseocc.). 



Markings as in bifascia, from which it differs in not having the 

 pink tinge ; the head and abdomen blackish ; the fore wing wholly 

 blackish except the white costal area and some rufous on marginal 

 area. 



Hob. Nilgiris ; Travancore. Exp. 34 millim. 



1937. Leucania irregularis, Wlk. Cat. xi, p. 712 ; C. $ 8. no. 1721. 

 Axylia abstracta, Swinh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 221, pi. vii, 

 fig. 13. 



c? . Brownish ochreous. Fore wing with a dark brown tri- 

 angular patch occupying the area between lower angle of cell, apex, 

 and outer angle ; fine chocolate streaks above and below median 

 nervure and towards the apex ; a white spot at lower angle of cell. 

 Hind wing white, the margin suffused with brown. Underside 

 immaculate. 



Hob. Moulmein ; Bhamo. Exp. 30 millim. 



Genus FLOCCIFERA, nov. 



Type, F. eriyida, Swinh. 



Range. Burma. 



Eyes naked and without lashes ; proboscis fully developed ; palpi 

 upturned and smoothly scaled, reaching vertex of head; antennae 

 of male minutely ciliated ; tibiae without spines ; thorax and 

 abdomen without tufts ; a pair of tufts of long hair from base of 

 abdomen below. 



1938. Floccifera erigida, Smnh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 221. 



Pale red-brown. Pore wing with indistinct subbasal and ante- 

 medial waved lines ; a black speck at middle of cell, some specks on 

 discocellulars ; traces of a narrow diffused medial band angled at 

 lower end of cell ; an indistinct postmedial slightly waved line with 

 a series of specks beyond it ; an irregularly waved submarginal 



