LEUCANIA. 09 



Leucania semiusta. (Plate CXLIV. fig. 17.) 



Expanse 1^ iiicli. 



Male. Fore wing : apex acute, outer margin nearly straight ; ocbreous grey, with brown 

 speckles ; an ochreous lunule at end of cell ; a diffused rufous patch along the median nervure 

 and beyond end of cell ; a dusky subapical patch on outer margin. Hind wing white; veins 

 dusky ; apical and exterior areas fuscous. Underside ^^carly white ; disc of fore wing dusky ; 

 hind wing with some antecilial black specks towards apex. Head, thorax, and abdomen 

 oclu'eous grey. 



A very distinct species. 



Leucania vittata. (Plate CXLIV. fig. 4.) 



Expanse Ij inch. 



Female. Fore wing : apex blunt, outer margin rounded ; ochreous white ; a black streak 

 below the median nervure from base to origin of first median nervule ; a prominent white 

 streak with small black ones round it on the median nervure at its extremity, situated on a 

 pale ruddy-brown diffused patch ; a ruddy and dark brown streak from the outer margin 

 below the apex to first median nervule ; a dark streak at lobe of inner margin ; a series of 

 black antecilial specks ; cilia fuscous, ochreous white in continuation of the nervules. Hind 

 wing pearly grey ; apical and exterior angles smoky. Underside pearly grey ; costa and apices 

 of both wings and disc of fore wing fuscous. Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous white. 



Allied to L. plana from S. Africa, which has a scries of marginal black specks on the 

 hind wing. 



Leucania v-album. (Plate CXLTV. fig. 10.) 



Expanse }i— If'^ inch. 



Male. Fore wing : apex acute, outer margin rounded ; ground-colour white ; a broken 

 ruddy-brown streak above the submedian nervure near the base ; central portion of costa 

 smoky black ; a ruddy-brown and smoky-black patch occupying the disc and continued to 

 inner margin as a diffused band ; a large white V-shaped mark in the cell at its extremity ; a 

 brown subapical patch on outer margin ; a series of antecilial black specks ; cilia brown and 

 white. Hind wing smoky black. Underside pearly white, variegated with smoky-brown 

 diffused patches, some of them forming an indistinct postmedial band on fore wing ; a short 

 blackish transverse streak from costa three fourths from base ; hind wing with a lunule at end 

 of cell. Head and thorax pale ruddy brown ; abdomen fuscous. 



Nearest to L. siuuosa. 



