378 I^-OCTTJIDiE. 



Genus XANTHOLEUCA, nov. 



Type, X. staudingeri. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porrect, hardly reaching beyond the large 

 truncate corneous frontal prominence with raised edges ; eyes large, round ; 

 antennae of male somewhat laminate and minutely ciliated; thorax clothed 

 almost entirely with scales, the prothorax without crest, the metathorax with 

 decumbent crest ; tibia slightly fringed with hair ; abdomen with dorsal crest 

 at base only and subdorsal scale-fans from basal segment. Fore wing with 

 the apex somewhat produced, the termen evenly curved and not erenulate ; 

 veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from below upper angle ; 7 from 

 angle; 8, 9 stalked ; 10, 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle 

 of cell ; 5 nearly fully developed from below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 

 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



5576. Xantholeuca staudingeri. 



Erastria staudingeri, Stndf. Eom. Mem. vi. p. 667, pi. 15. f. 7 (1892) ; 

 Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 231. 



S . Head, thorax, and abdomen white ; patagia yellow at 

 extremity ; tarsi ochreous ringed with white. Fore wing silvery 

 white ; a broad golden yellow antemedial band with waved edges, 



Fig. 119. — Xantholeuca staiidingeri, (^ . |. 



a slight waved brown line on its outer edge, except towards costa ; 

 a dentate brown subterminal line, angled outwards below vein 7 

 and incurved below vein 3, the area beyond it golden yellow with 

 some brown scales on it below apex and at tornus ; cilia white, 

 some brown-tipped scales at apex, above middle and at tornus. 

 Hind wing ochreous white slightly tinged with brown ; an in- 

 distinct diffused brownish postmedial band ; cilia white, yellowish 

 at base and brownish at apex ; the underside ochreous white 

 tinged with brown, a curved postmedial line. 

 Hab. Stria, Mardin, 1 S • Exp. 20 millim. 



Genus HICCODA. 



Type. 



Hiccoda, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 134(1882) dosaroides. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to about 

 middle of frons and moderately scaled, the 3rd short ; frons with truncate 

 prominence with raised edges, its lower part filled in with scales ; eyes large, 

 round ; antenna of male minutely ciliated ; thorax clothed almost entirely 

 with scales, the prothorax without crest, the mesothorax with slight paired 

 crests, the metathorax with spreading crest ; tibice moderately fringed with 

 hair ; abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing with the apex 

 rounded, the termen evenly curved and not erenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from 



