90 NOCTUID.E. 



nemire just beyond the middle of the cell ; the marginal area bright chestnut. Hind wing 

 with the bright yellow basal patch extending nearer the anal angle ; the pale yellow spot on 

 the disk smaller. Thorax with the tegulce pale j'ellow, but with no streak on the vertex ; 

 abdomen without the black segmental bands. 



NOCTUID^. 



LEUCANINjE. 

 Leucania inframicans. (Plate CLXI. fig. 2.) 



Expanse 6 1 jV inch. 



Male. Closely alUed to L. decisissima, Wlk. ; the fore wing purplish white instead of 

 ochreous white, and without the brick-red streaks and suffusion, but clouded with olivaceous 

 fuscous ; the two median nervules from the end of the cell are pure white with dark streaks 

 above them, and the other nervules are whitish ; a broad dark longitudinal streak below the 

 subcostal nervure from the base to the apex ; the outer margin dark below the oblique pale 

 streak. Hind wing ochreous white, only slightly tinged with fuscous towards the centre of 

 the outer margin. Underside covered with glittering metallic scales as in L. decisissima and 

 exsanguis, Wlk. ; the marginal points minute. 



Leucania exterior, Wlk. (Plate CLXI. fig. 3.) 

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



Expanse IJ- inch. 



Male. Head, thorax, and abdomen pale wainscot-brown. Fore wing with very 

 indistinct pale streaks on the veins and in the interspaces ; postmedial and marginal sei'ies of 

 minute dark specks. Hind wing iridescent yellowish white; some brown on the outer 

 margin. 



Leucania denticula. (Plate CLXI. fig. 10.) 



Expanse s ^ i-j inch. 



Male. Closely allied to L. sinuosa, Moore; the fore wing without the dark longitudinal 

 streak from base to outer margin ; the antemedial sinuous line more regular towards the 

 costa ; the postmedial line with the sinuations small ; the cilia ochreous, not chequered. 



Leucania exempta, JVlk. (Plate CLXI. fig. 9.) 

 Leucania exempta, Wlk. Cat. xi. p. 7iU. 

 Expanse $ 1^ inch. 

 Female. Head, thorax, and abdomen pale wainscot-brown. Pore wing pale wainscot- 



