274 Annalfi of the Soiith African Museum.. 



(12) Leucania irrorata, Moore, P.Z.S. 1881, p. 341. 



Hab. Mashonaland, Salisbury (Marshall) ; India, Nortb-vest 

 Himalayas, Punjab ; Ceylon. Ex23. 30 mill. 



(18) Leucania tjsta, n. sp. 



Head and thorax grey strongly irrorated with dark brown ; 

 abdomen whitish or fuscous irrorated with black. Forewing brown 

 tinged with purplish grey and strongly irrorated with black ; an 

 indistinct medial series of black points or dentate line ; a white 

 streak on terminal part of median nervure emitting a streak on 

 vein 5 and with a black point in lower angle of cell and reddish mark 

 above it ; a minutely crenulate postmedial line bent outwards below 

 costa, sometimes reduced to a series of points ; a more or less pro- 

 minent oblique reddish mark from apex ; a fine white terminal line. 

 Hindwing white, the veins and termen tinged with brown ; a terminal 

 series of points. 



Hab. Natal, Weenen, Estcourt (Hutchinson) ; Cape Colony, 

 Transkei (Miss F. Barrett). Exp. 32-40 mill. Type in B.M. 



(14) Leucania nigrispaesa, n. sp. 



? . Pale brownish ochreous ; palpi and legs irrorated with black ; 

 abdomen white slightly tinged with brown and irrorated with fus- 

 cous. Forewing sparsely irrorated with brown scales ; a white 

 streak on median nervure ; a black point in lower angle of cell ; the 

 veins of terminal area pale ; traces of a curved postmedial series of 

 black points and of a terminal series. Hindwing pure white. 



Hab. Cape Colony, Transkei (Miss F. Barrett). Exp. 42 mill. 

 Type in B.M. . 



(15) Leucania nebulosa, n. sp. 



? . Brownish ochreous ; head, thorax, and abdomen irrorated 

 with black. Forewing irrorated with black ; a whitish streak on 

 median nervure and sometimes a black point in lower angle of cell ; 

 traces of an antemedial series of fuscous points ; two more distinct 

 curved postmedial series ; an oblique fuscous shade below apex ; a 

 terminal series of black points. Hindwing yellowish white ; the 

 terminal area between veins 5 and 2 irrorated with fuscous with 

 more or less distinct postmedial series of points on those veins and 

 a terminal series. 



Hab. British East Africa, Machakos (Crawshay) ; Cape Colony, 

 Transkei (Miss F. Barrett). Exp. 36 mill. Type in B.M. 



