136 NOCTTJIDiE. 



2242. Leiicochlaena leucocera. (Plate XCIX. fig. 12.) 

 Bombycia leucocera, Hrnpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 207 (1894). 



$ . Head and thorax clothed with grey- white and reddish-brown 

 hair; antennae white ; abdomen ochreous brown mixed with whitish. 

 Fore wing whitish tinged with brown and irrorated slightly with 

 black, the costal area whiter, the veins slightly streaked with 

 blackish ; subbasal line represented by blackish striae from costa 

 and cell ; antemedial line blackish, interrupted below costa, then 

 oblique, sinuous ; claviform small, narrow, yellowish white defined 

 by black, the yellowish interrupting the antemedial line ; orbicular 

 very small, white defined by black except above and with slight 

 rufous mark in centre, oblique elliptical ; reniform white defined by 

 black and wnth brown centre, narrow and acutely angled inwards on 

 median nervure ; postmedial line black-brown defined by whitish 

 on outer side, strongly bent outwards below costa, then minutely 

 waved, excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; subterminal line white 

 defined on inner side by small rather wedge-shaped black spots 

 betM'een veins 7 and 2 indenting the line which is very slightly 

 angled outwards at vein 7 ; a fine black terminal line ; cilia 

 whitish mixed with rufous and with three very slight lines through 

 them. Hind wing pale sufi'used with ochreous brown and slightly 

 tinged with fuscous except on costal area ; cilia yellowish white ; 

 the underside whitish irrorated with brown and the veins streaked 

 with brown, a small discoidal lunule and sinuous postmedial line. 

 Palpi with the 3rd joint rather long. 



Hah. Kashmir, Scinde Valley (ieccZi), 1 $ type. Elr^j. 46millim. 



Sect. III. AnteniiEe of male with short branches. 



2243. Leucochlasna leucogonia. 



Helio'phdbus leucogonia, Hmpsu. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. iii. p. 426 (1905). 



S . Head and thorax bright rufous mixed with some ochreous ; 

 abdomen ochreous tinged with rufous. Fore wing ochreous suffused 

 with rufous, the cell, costal area, and veins rather darker, the sub- 

 median interspace yellower ; a short white fascia in base of cell, 



Fig. .39. — Leuoochlatna leucogonia, (^ . }. 



bent upwards at extremity ; subbasal and antemedial lines, cla^^i- 

 form and obicular absent ; an elongate white spot defined by brown 



