482 NOCTUIDJD, 



laminate and almost simple ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and 

 without crests ; tibire smoothly scaled ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing 

 with the apex rounded, the termeu evenly cui-ved and not crenulate ; veins 3 

 aad 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle; 7, 8, 9 stalked; 10, 11 

 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 fully developed 

 from angle of cell ; 6, 7 shortly stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near 

 base only. 



*6832. Leucophanera argyrozona. 



Leucophanera argyrozona, de Joan. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1911, p. 117. 



5 . Head and thorax silvery white; palpi except at extremity 

 • of 2nd joiut and base of 3rd brown ; antennae brown ; legs brown, 

 the tibiae and tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen white tinged with 

 brown. Fore wingsilver)' white; small triangular cupreous brown 

 subbasal and antemcdial spots on costa suffused with metallic silver 

 and defined by black on outer side; an antemedial black point 

 above vein 1 ; an erect medial cupreous brown band suffused with 



Fig. 180. — Leucophanera argyrozona, § . |. 



metallic silver and defined by slightly sinuous black lines, a black 

 discoidal striga on it ; a subterminal series of irregular dentate 

 black marks with a cupreous brown band suffused with metallic 

 silver beyond them leaving the termen white with a series of small 

 black spots. Hind wing white very faintly tinged with brown and 

 with a terminal series of blackish strige ; the underside with the 

 basal costal area irrorated with brown, a blackish discoidal spot, 

 waved postmedial and subterminal lines, and terminal series of 

 small black lunules. 



Hah. Up. Guinea, Oudoula {Sigui7n), type t $ in Coll. Joannis. 

 Exy. 18 millim. 



Genus TITULCIA. 



Tvpe. 



Titulcia, Wlk. xxix. 810 (1864) eximia. 



Proboscis rather small ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint oblique, extending 

 about twice the length of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd very long and 

 slender, and acuminate at tip, with ring of iiair near extremity ; frons smooth ; 

 eyes large, round ; antenna of male ciliated ; thorax clothed almost entirely 

 with scales and without crests ; fore and mid tibi£e slightly fringed with hair ; 

 abdomen with small crests on two basal segments. Fore wiug with the apex 

 somewhat produced and acute, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; 

 vein 3 from well before angle of cell ; 4, 5 from angle ; 6 from below upper 

 angle, 7 from angle ; 8 and 10 stalked to near apex, 9 absent; 11 from cell. 

 Hind wing with veins 3 and 5 stalked, 4 absent; 6, 7 from upper angle; 

 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



