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NOCTUID.Ti. 



outer side with slight brown line on it, bent outwards below costa^ 

 obliquely excurved to vein 4, then bent inwards to lower edge o£ 

 reniforni and erect to inner margin, some white points beyond it on 

 costa ; subterminal line white defined by small somewhat dentate 

 black marks on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7, incurved at 

 discal fold and below vein 3 ; a series of small black lunules just 

 before termen with chestnut patches on the termen and cilia 

 intersected by pinkish dentate marks. Hind wing red-brown with 

 darker terminal line ; the underside whitish irrorated with red- 

 brown, the veins and terminal area suffused with red-brown, a 

 brown discoidal spot, curved postmedial line, and traces of sub- 

 terminal band shewing slightly on upperside. 



Hab. Cape Colony, Transkei (Miss F. Barrett), 1 $ type perrubra, 

 Exp. 34 millim. 



Genus LEUCOCHL^NA, nov. 



Type, L. hispida. 



Proboscis minute ; palpi porrect to just beyond frontal tuft and fringed with 

 long hair below ; frons smooth ; eyes large, rounded ; antennse of male- 

 typioally bipectinate with long branches to apex, of female ciliated ; head and 

 thorax clothed with hair and hair-like scales, the pro- and metathorax with 

 spreading crests ; pectus and legs clothed with long hair ; abdomen with some 

 rough hair at base and lateral fringes of hair but without crests. Fore wing 

 with tlie apex rounded, the termen obliquely curved and somewhat erenulate ; 

 veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 

 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with 

 veins 3, 4 i'rom angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, T 

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



Sect. I. AntenniB of female serrate. 



2237. Leucochlsena fallax. 



Heliopliohus fallax, Stand. Berl. ent. Zeit. 1870, p. 116; Mill. Icones, iii. 

 p. 416, pi. 151. ff. 12-13; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 177. 



Head and thorax ochreous mixed with fuscous ; palpi blackish at 

 sides ; abdomen brownish ochreous. Fore wing ochreous suffused 



Fig. 37. — LeucochlcBna fallax, $ . \. 



with reddish brown, leaving the costa and inner margin more 

 ochreous ; the veins ochreous ; a slight diffused black streak below 

 base of cell ; the subbasal line represented by two black striae from 

 costa ; antemedial line double filled in with ochreous, slightly angled 

 outwards below costa and excurved in submedian interspace ; 

 claviform defined by ochreous and black at extremity ; orbicular 

 and reniiorm narrow with brownish centres and ochreous annuli 



