LEUCINODES. CEOCIDOLOMIA. 371 



"5074. Leucinodes diaphana, Hmpsn. EL Het. viii, p. 135, pi. 155, 



fig. 11. 



c? . Differs from Analyta sigulalis in the 2nd and 3rd segments 

 of abdomen being orange above. Fore wing with the outer edge of 

 the black basal patch oblique and extending further along inner 

 margin; no trace of postmedial line; the postmedial line regularly 

 curved to outer angle, with rufous patch between it and lower 

 angle of cell, a fuscous and grey patch on inner margin. Hind 

 wing with no postmedial line ; the submarginal line with diffused 

 reddish fuscous on its inner edge, sending a spur to lower angle of 

 cell and with no black spot at vein 2 ; the apical band extending 

 to vein 2. 



Hob. Nilgiris. Eacp. 24 millim. 



5075. Leucinodes apicalis, n. sp. 



c? . Pure white ; head, thorax, and abdomen marked with black. 

 Pore wing with the base black ; indistinct antemedial and medial 

 yellowish lines ; a large apical black patch irrorated with a few 

 grey scales and traversed by a pale sinuous line continued as a 

 yellow line to outer angle. Hind wing with basal black specks ; 

 pale yellow discocellular spot ; yellow postmedial line bent inwards 

 at vein 2 to lower angle of cell and ending in a black spot on 

 inner margiri^; a subapical black spot. 



Hob. Dharmsala {Hocking) ; Ceylon (Green). Exp. 24 millim. 

 Type in B. M. 



Genus CROCIDOLOMIA. 



Crocidolomia, Zell. K. Vet.-Ak. Handl. 1852, p. 65 (1854). 

 Godara, Wlk. Cat. xix, p. 808 (1859). 



Type, G. binofaUr, Zell. 



Range. S. Africa ; Oriental and Australian regions. 



Palpi obliquely upturned, with tufts of hair at end of 1st and 

 2nd joints, the 3rd joint well-developed and obtuse; maxillary 

 palpi dilated with scales at extremity; frons rounded; antennae 

 of male thickened and flattened with appressed serrations ; fore 

 coxae of male very much enlarged, with a leaden-coloured semicir- 

 cular hollow on inner side with large tufts of white hair on each 

 side of it ; mid tibiae and the inner spur fringed on inner side 

 with long hair ; hind tibiae with the outer spurs half the length of 

 the inner ; abdomen with dorsal tuft on 1st segment. Fore wing 

 broad ; a tuft of scales at middle of inner margin ; male with a 

 large tuft of hair on upperside from near base of costa recurved 

 over the wing; underside with a fringe of hair below the cell; 

 vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 4, 5 well separated at origin ; 10 

 separated from 8, 9. Hind wing of male with a large fovea on 

 underside below the cell before origin of vein 2 ; the cell short ; veins 

 4, 5 approximated for nearly half their length, 3 from angle of cell 

 and approximated to them for a short distance ; 6, 7 from upper 

 angle, 7 anastomosing strongly with 8, which is highly sinuous. 



