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LEUCOCHLAENA; ULOCHLAENA. By II'. Warren. 

 IS. Genus: Leucochlaena Hmps. 



/alias. 



Tongue minute; palpi shortly porrect, hairy below; frons smooth; antennae of $ bipectinate' to apex, 

 the branches long, of $ ciliated or serrate; body hairy; $ with fully developed wings Larva on grasses, hyberna- 

 ting, and feeding up in spring. Type Leucochlaena oditis Hbn. 



Sect. I. 9 with serrate antennae. 



L. fallax Stgr. (28 h). Forewing ochreous suffused with reddish-brown except along costa and inner margin; 

 the veins ochreous; the lines double, filled in with ochreous; claviform defined by ochreous and black at extre- 

 mity; orbicular and reniform narrow, their centres brown ringed with ochreous and outlined with black, con- 

 versely oblique and confluent on median vein; subterminal line broadly ochreous, internally defined by black 

 dentate markings; hindwing brownish ochreous, with an obscurely marked outer line. Sarepta, S. E. Russia. — 

 Larva reddish grey, finely dotted with black, somewhat lighter at sides; head pale yellow; on grasses. 



Sect. II. Antennae of $ ciliated. 



oditis. 



pallida, 

 obsoleta. 



L. oditis Hbn. (= hispida H. G., pilosa Bsd., hirta Dwp. nee Hbn.) ('29 c). Forewing deep olive brown: 

 all the veins whitish; inner and outer lines broadly whitish with a dark line in centre, the first outwardly oblique, 

 the outer outcurved above and oblique below middle, emitting pale tooth-shaped marks along veins to sub- 

 marginal line which is broad, whitish internally and rufous or brownish externally, toothed between the black 

 marginal lunules; the line is preceded by black wedge-shaped blotches lying between the teeth of outer line; clavi- 

 form stigma brown, black-edged; upper stigmata pale ochreous, finely outlined with black, the orbicular with 

 the centre reddish; fringe with basal half brown, outer half ochreous; hindwing dull whitish, becoming brownish 

 grey towards termen, with a dark outer line; specimens from the chalk at Portland are much paler and consti- 

 tute the aberrations pallida Tutt and obsoleta Tutt; the former pale grey with a faint brown tinge; the costa 

 whitish; the broad submarginal line white like the fringe; hindwing and fringe almost wholly white; the latter 

 hispanica. is dull grey with scarcely any paler markings; ab. hispanica ab. nov. (29 c, d) differs in being smaller, yellower 

 brown, with all lines, veins, and markings ochreous, not white, except the inner linear edge of the submarginal 

 line; it in distinguished at once by the lower half of outer line being vertical instead of oblique, in a straight 

 line with the inner edge of the reniform; 3 $($ andl $ from Granada, Andalusia, (C. Ribbe). Occurs in S. Eng- 

 land, France, Spain, Portugal, Sicily; also in Morocco and Palestine. Larva yellowish green or brownish; 

 dorsal and subdorsal lines pale with dark edges; spiracular line broad, yellowish white; on grasses. 



hirsutus. L. hirsutus Stgr. Forewing dull grey-brown; the lines and veins dark outlined with whitish; upper 



stigmata with pale annuli outlined with black, the orbicular elongate, oblique, with pale centre, the reniform 

 with centre dark; subterminal line waved, pale, preceded below middle by 3 dentate black marks; hindwing 

 dirty white, fuscous-tinged towards termen. Marasch, Asia Minor. 



orana. L. orana Lucas. (28 c). Forewing whitish tinged with brown, darker in median area, except at costa; lines 



obscure, waved or dentate; stigmata small, outlined with black, the upper ones narrow, with brown centres; 

 an oblique diffused whitish streak from apex to outer line; submarginal line whitish; hindwing brownish white, 

 with curved outer line, and obscure diffuse subterminal band. Algeria. 



leucoccra. L. leucocera Hmps. (29 d). Forewing brownish white, slightly dark-dusted, the costal area greyer; 



veins finely blackish; lines black conversely pale-edged; claviform stigma small, yellow, with black outline, the 

 yellow interrupting the inner line; orbicular small, white, outlined Math black, with a rufous centre; reniform 

 white, also with brown centre and black outline, narrow, angled inwards on median vein; submarginal line 

 whitish preceded by a dentate brown band; fringe pale; hindwing greyish fuscous; the fringe pale. — ■ Described 

 from a single ^ from the Scinde Valley, Kashmir. — A large species for the genus. 



19. Genus: T' lochia en a Led. 



Differs from Leucochlaena in having the tongue wholly absent; the $ with the wings aborted. Type 

 Ulochlaena hirta Hbn. 



Sect. I. Wings of $ minute. 



swperba. U. superba Alplt. (28 c). Forewing reddish brown ; an ochreous streak in base of cell running below costa to 



middle; another below the cell, with black edges, confluent with the claviform; inner area at base ochreous; 

 median vein ochreous; orbicular and reniform stigmata ochreous, narrow, outlined with black, the latter angled 

 inwards on median nervure and emitting strong teeth on veins 4, 3, 2; a subquadrate patch of ochreous beyond 

 and below middle of costa confluent with a similar patch at apex; outer line only shown, ochreous; a subter- 

 minal row of ochreous striae from apex to inner margin ; fringe ochreous at base, the outer half chequered ochreous 

 and brown; hindwing uniform brown, the fringe ochreous. Nan-Schan Mts, Tibet. 



