284 " NOCTUIDiE. 



Leucanitis schlumhergeri, Fiichs, Soc. Ent. xviii. p. 50 (1903). 

 Leucanitis beta, Kusiiezov, Taskent, Izy. Turk. Otcl. Russ. geogr. Obsc. iv. 

 8, p. 173 (1908). 



Head and thorax rufous ; antennae blackish ; palpi white irrorated 

 with brown ; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen white, 

 the legs irrorated with brown, the dorsal surface of abdomen tinged 

 and irrorated with brown. Fore wing fuscous brown with a leaden 

 grey tinge and some whitish irroration ; the base pale rufous with 

 some whitish at inner margin ; antemedial line double, curved, 

 waved, the inner line indistinct, the outer line black, followed by a 

 broad grey-white band; reniform with ochreous annulus and its 

 centre defined by brown, very narrow and slightly angled inwards 

 on median nervure ; a grey- white band beyond it f I'om costa to 

 vein 3 before the slight blackish postmedial line, which is oblique 

 and sinuous from costa to vein 3, then retracted to lower edge of 

 reniform and erect and sinuous to inner margin ; subterminal line 

 slight, whitish defined on inner side by blackish, minutely waved, 

 slightly angled outwards below vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a 

 slight waved blackish terminal line with black points at the inter- 

 spaces. Hind wing with the basal half white, the cell and inner 



Fig. 68. — Leucanitis roda, ^, \. 



area suffused with brown, the terminal half fuscous brown, its 

 inner edge joined at lower angle of cell by an obhque fuscous 

 diseoidal bar ; slight white marks on termen at apex and discal 

 fold and an oblique bar at vein 2 ; cilia white with a brown patch 

 at middle and tinged with brown towards tornus. Underside 

 white ; fore wing with oblique fuscous band from middle of costa 

 to submedian fold where it is confluent with a curved fuscous 

 postmedial band connected with termen by fuscous patches at apex 

 and middle ; hind wing as above but without the brown suffusion 

 in cell and on inner area. 



Ab. 1. schlumhergeri. Larger ; fore wing more uniform blue- 

 grey. 



Ab. 2. leta. Fore wing blackish tinged with blue-grey, the basal 

 area blacker. 



Hah. ? Russia, Crimea ; Armenia, Helenendorf {Lederer), 

 1 $ ; W. Turkestan, 1 c? , 1 $ , Turcomania, Saisan, Issyk-Kul ; 

 E. Turkestan, Hi, Korla. Eccp. 84-36 millim. 



