282 NocTuiD,!;. 



8088. Leucanitis picta. (Plate CCXXVI. fig. 21.) 



Lcticanitis picta, Christ. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. xii. p. 257, pi. 7. f. 28 



(1877) ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 243. 

 Leucanitis radapicta, Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 243 (1901). 



Head and thorax reddish brown mixed with white and some 

 blackish ; antennae fuscous ; palpi, pectus, and legs white, the palpi 

 and legs irrorated with fuscous ; abdomen ochreous white irrorated 

 with brown, the ventral surface white. Fore wing reddish brown 

 mixed with white and suffused in parts with fuscous brown, the 

 medial area white tinged with ochreous and with fuscous brown 

 towards costa ; double subbasal black striae from costa and cell ; 

 anteinedial line black defined on outer side by white, an indistinct 

 sinuous line before it with some dai'k streaks before it on the veins ; 

 reniform with white annulus and its centre defined by blackish, 

 a diffused white patch beyond it before the jjostmedial line, which 

 is black, slightly bent outwards below costa, obliquely downcurved 

 to vein 6, angled outwards at veins 4, 3, then bent inwards to 

 lower edge of reniform and sinuous to inner margin, another faint 

 line beyond it defined on outer side by whitish ; subterminal line 

 white defined on inner side by small somewhat dentate black marks 

 and on outer side by rufous with minute black streaks at the veins, 

 slightly excTxrved below vein 7 and at middle ; the terminal area 

 suffused with white, with an oblique black mark from apex and 

 some black suffusion at middle of termen ; a waved black terminal 

 line ; cilia white mixed with red-brown and with a brown line 

 through them except towards apex. Hind mng white, the cell 

 and inner area suffused with fuscous brown, the terminal half 

 fuscous brown, its inner edge joined at vein 2 by an oblique 

 discoidal bar ; a blackish spot at middle of termen defined above by 

 some white in discal fold and below by an oblique white bar ; cilia 

 white with some brown at base at middle. Underside white, both 

 wings with oblique discoidal band connected below with a post- 

 niedial band confluent with patches on terminal areas at apex and 

 middle, the band cmwed on fore wing, sinuous on hind wing. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the medial area browner and with less 

 ochreous. 



Ab. 2. radapicta. Rather larger ; fore wing more uniform 

 brown. — Kirghistan. 



Hah. Kirghistan, 1 cj' , 1 $ ; ? Syeia ; W. Turkestaist ; 

 Transcaspia, Krasnowvodsk (yChristopli), 1 d' , 2 $ , Tedschen Oasis 

 {Sauser'), 2 cj" , 1 $, Imam-baba {Kos]iantschikoff),2 S ■, Turco- 

 mania, Issyk-Kul; E. Turkestan, Hi, Kuldja, 3 c? , 1 $. Exp. 

 36-42 minim. 



Sect. II. Fore tibise with the claws minute. 



A. Hind wing with white spots on termen at apex and discal 



fold cliristophi , 



B. Hind wing without white spots on termen at apex and discal 



fold , roda. 



