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a^. Forewing with crenulate postmedial line phcea. 



b^. Forewing with postmedial series of points unipuncta. 



c. Forewing with black fascife on median nervure and vein 1 interlata 



(1) Leucania intekciliata, n. sp. 



(^ . Head and thorax ochreous white slightly tinged with brown ; 

 palpi and legs mixed with black ; prothoracic crest black and white 

 at tips ; abdomen strongly tinged with brown. Forewing pale 

 brownish ochreous, the costal area irrorated with black ; a purplish- 

 brown fascia on median nervure and in cell, then diffused over the 

 whole terminal area, the median nervure itself grey with a white 

 streak at extremity emitting a short hook on discocellulars ; a 

 purplish brown and greyish fascia on vein 1 from near base and 

 with an oblique black streak below it from near base to middle ; the 

 terminal area with fine red-brown streaks in the interspaces, a grey 

 fascia, with a black streak below it, on vein 5, and a blackish streak 

 in end of submedian fold ; fine white streak on the ends of the veins 

 and intersecting the cilia which are black. Hindwing white tinged 

 with ochreous ; the terminal area and veins tinged with brown ; the 

 cilia brown and white except towards tornus. 



Hab. Natal, Estcourt (Hutchinson). Exp. 40 mill. Type in 

 B.M. 



(2) Leucania saeca, n. sp. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen white, tinged with pink and brown 

 and irrorated with black. Forewing white strongly tinged with pink 

 and irrorated with black ; the costal edge and a fascia on median 

 nervure brownish pink, the median nervure with white streak from 

 before middle to extremity where it emits a slight hook, a black 

 fascia above it continued above vein 5 to termen ; a black point in 

 lower angle of cell ; a short black streak in base of submedian fold ; 

 the interspaces of terminal area witli fine dark streaks ending in 

 black points. Hindwing white, the apical area suffused with fuscous 

 to submedian fold ; traces of some terminal points. 



Hab. British East Africa, Machakos (^Crawshay) ; Natal, Kar- 

 kloof (Marshall) ; Cape Colony, Transkei (Miss F. Barrett). Exp. 

 28 mill. Type in B.M. 



(3) Leucania amens, Guen. Noct. i. p. 88 (1852). 



Hab. British East Africa, Machakos ; Natal, Estcourt (Hutchin- 

 son) ; Cape Colony, Transkei, Annshaw (Miss F. Barrett). 

 Exp. 34-36 mill. 



