MIMLEUCANIA. 285 



Genus MIMLEUCANIA, nov. 



Type, M. 'perstriata. 



Proboscis iuUy developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2ud joint reaching 

 to about middle of Irons and moderately scaled, the 3rd short ; froas smooth 

 with ridges of hair above and between antennas ; eyes large, round ; anteunje 

 of male minutely serrate or laminate ; thorax smoothly clothed with hair and 

 hair-like scales and without crests; tibiae moderately fringed with hair; 

 abdomen with some rough hair at base but without crests. Fore wing with 

 the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and crenulate ; veins W and 5 

 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle; 9 froui 10 anastomosing with 8 

 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of 

 cell; 5 obsolescent from below middle of discoeellulars ; 6, 7 from upper 

 angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



Sect. I. Antennse of male minutely serrate. 



3897. Mimleucania leucosoma. 



Hadena leucosoma, Feld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 109. f. 31 (1874). 

 Biaiithoecia graminiculenB, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) ii. p. 295 (1878). 



Head and thorax grey-white mixed with pale brown ; palpi 

 brown except at tips ; patagia slightly edged with black-brown ; 

 front of pectus and legs brown, the tarsi slightly ringed with 

 white ; abdomen white slightly tinged with brown. Eore wing 

 reddish brown, the costal area white tinged with brown and tbe 

 veins finely streaked with brown, the iamer margin whitish ; a 

 large triangular white-defined antemedial mark in submedian inter- 

 space, open towards base and partly defined by black streaks, a 

 downcurved white streak below it above inner margin defined by 



Fig. 81 . — Mimleucania leucosoma, (^ . \. 



black streaks above and below ; an oblique white fascia in sub- 

 median fold, from cell to postmedial line ; orbicular minute, round, 

 white defined by black and with brown centre ; reniform oblique 

 bar-shaped, with brownish centre and white annulus defined by 

 black, open above, a slight white streak i'rom it to postmedial line 

 below vein 5 ; postmedial line white defined on inner side by 

 minute darklunules and with diff'used streaks before it in the inter- 

 spaces, bent outwards and obsolete below costa, oblique to vein 5, 

 then inwardly oblique and angled inwards in submedian fold, 

 obsolete below vein 1, some oblique white striae beyond it from 

 costa ; the interspaces of terminal area with wedge-shaped black 

 marks traversed by oblique white subterminal sti'i^ from apex to 



