LEUCANITIS. ' 288 



. 8089. Leiicanitis christophi. (Plate CCXXVI. fig. 22.) 



Leucanitis christophi, Alph. Iris, viii. p. 200 (1895) ; Staud. Oat. Lep. pal. 

 p. 243. 



6 • Head and thorax pale rufous ; antennse blackish ; palpi 

 white slightly tinged with brown ; j^iectus and legs white, the tibiae 

 tinged with brown, the tarsi blackish ringed with white ; abdomen 

 white tinged with brown. Fore wing pale grey suffused and 

 irrorated with fuscous ; the basal area with some rufous on inner 

 half ; subbasal black strise from costa and cell ; antemedial line 

 strong, black, excurved and slightly waved, followed by a broad 

 pale grey band ; a faint dark medial line, excurved in the cell ; 

 reniform with brown centre and whitish annulus, narrow and 

 constricted at middle ; postmedial line black, slightly bent out- 

 wards below costa, slightly angled outwards at veins 6 and 4 and 

 incurved between those points, at vein 3 retracted upwards to lower 

 angle of cell, then somewhat oblique and sinuous to inner margin, 

 the area beyond the cell and in the sinus of postmedial line with 

 faint rufous tinge ; postmedial area darker ; subterminal line 

 slight, whitish, minutely waved, angled outwards below vein 7, 

 and ineiu"ved below vein 3 ; a slight waved blackish tei'minal line ; 

 cilia fuscous at base, brownish grey at tips. Hind wing white, 

 the basal and inner areas tinged with brown ; an oblique black 

 discoidal lunule, its lower extremity confluent with the black 

 terminal area ; the termen with white spots at apex and discal fold 

 and an oblique spot below vein 2 ; cilia white, blackish at middle 

 and tinged with brown towards tornus. Underside of fore vsdng 

 white, a black medial band confluent below vein 2 with the curved 

 postmedial band expanding and with irregular outer edge on costal 

 area, a black spot at apex and a patch at middle of terminal area 

 confluent with the postmedial band ; cilia white at base, blackish at 

 tips. 



5 . Fore wing with the basal area more tinged with rufous, the 

 basal half of medial area darker and faintly tinged with rufous, 

 the postmedial line more incurved at discal fold and produced at 

 vein 4. 



Ab. 1. J . Fore wing with the postmedial line obsolescent 

 brownish. 



2 . Thorax pale brown ; fore wing with less blue-grey on medial 

 and terminal areas. — Korla, Coll. Piingeler. 



Hab. EussiA, Urals, Eurba, 1 c? , 1 2 ; Kirghistan, Sudersk ; 

 MowaoLiA, Korla, Saichin-Kette. JSajj. S 32, $ 36 millim. 



8090. Leucanitis roda. 



Euclidia roda, Herr.-Schaff. Schmett. Eur, ii. p. 422, Noct. ff. .561-2 

 (1845) ; John, Hor. Soc. Ent. Eoss. xxxix. p. 602, pi. xvi. ff. 1 a-c & 

 2a-b, pi. xix. f. 6, & pi. xxii. f. 28. 



Microphisa rada, Boisd. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1848, p. xxx ; Frr. Neue 

 Beitr. pi. 676. f. 4 (1852); Guen. Noct. iii. p. 58, pi. 13. f. 12 (1852);' 

 Ev. Bull. Moac. 1857, iv. p. 401 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 243. 



