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slender; the head small, pale brown: dorsum pale grey with very line reddish wavy dentate interrupted dorsal 



and subdorsal lines; also a line above the spiracles; on the side of segments 2 to 7 a red point above the 

 upper lateral tubercle; tubercles hardly visible; thoracic and anal plates yellowish; spiracles black ; feeds upon 

 llelianlhenmm balimil'oliinn. hiding itself in the sand among the roots, where it also pupates; the larvae of 

 the first brood feed from April lo June, of the second in September and October. 



C. insana H.-Sch. (=algiriae Obertk, scapulosa Lucas nee /77m.) (62 f). Smaller than scapulosa Hbn., msana. 

 (he median area between inner and outer lines except at inner margin pale; the costa dark with a pale 

 subcostal streak at base; the pale area before the upper pari of outer line oblong and rounded at vein 2; 

 the snbtenninal line indented below costa and on submedian fold as well as beyond cell; hindwing luteous 

 whitish, with hardly any marking's; the olive green shading of forewings varies in intensity. Algeria. 



is 



C. sana Stgr. (= insana Stgr. nee H.-Sch.) (62 f). Not so large as scapulosa Hbn. the white edging sana. 

 of the lines much more conspicuous; the whole wing more suffused with olive green; the outer line in its 

 upper course forming a long beak-shaped mark pointed at vein 2, filled up with pale rufous strongly edged 

 with white; the white subcostal streak in basal half of wing strong; the terminal area pale pearl grey, and 

 the waved terminal line strongly marked: the fringe broadly pale at base; hindwing with the base and an 

 outer broad diffuse band olive fuscous; the white terminal area with a black blotch at apex and another 

 narrower, below middle, the fringe beyond the latter fuscous, otherwhere white. Algeria. 



C. confusa spec. nor. (62 f). Intermediate in size between sana Stgr. and insana H.-Sch.; the pale confusa. 

 median spaces suffused with rufous olive; the white edging of the lines less prominent; the space limited by 

 the upper course of the outer line not so conspicuously rostrate, filled up with rufous and not edged with 

 white: the snbtenninal line preceded by black wedge shaped marks between the veins both above and below 

 the rostrate projection; hindwing suffused throughout with olive fuscous, but darkest subterminally; the two 

 black terminal blotches attenuated; underside less purely white than in sana. Described from a single ? 

 from the Felder Collection, from "Abyssinia - '. Type in Tring Museum. 



39. Genus: Leucanitis Gu, 



en. 



Tongue present; frons smooth; palpi upturned with the second and third segments moderately scaled, 

 antennae of cT ciliated; mid tibiae only spined; fore tibiae with more or less developed claws at extremity 

 on inner and outer sides. Type: L. roda H.-Sch. 



Sect. I. Claws of foretibiae well developed. 



L. sesquistria Ev. (62 f). Forewing brownish fuscous mixed with bluish grey; inner line black, obliquely sesquistria. 

 curved, preceded by a brown line, dentate on inner edge; outer line black, bluntly angled on subcostal and 

 sharply on vein 6. then strongly indented, forming a bifid projection on veins 3 and 4, running up along vein 

 3 to below the reniform stigma, then straight to inner margin; reniform stigma dark brown, narrower above 

 than below, edged internally by a straight black line, preceded by a fuscous and bluish grey costal shade; 

 the two parts of the median area very narrow, more or less filled in with brownish or fuscous, the inner 

 parts remaining palest; rarely wholly white, in the ab. albimedia ab. nov. (62 g); submarginal line white, albimedia. 

 slightly indented beyond cell, preceded by some black teeth and outwardly edged by a rufous line; terminal 

 area bluish grey; a black marginal line: fringe while, with a grey patch beyond veins 3 and 4; hindwing 

 pure white; the outer half black, the terminal area narrowly white, like the fringe, except at veins 3 and 4 

 where it is interrupted by a black blotch. A small, dark insect, found in Armenia, the Kirghiz steppes, Trans- 

 caspia, Afghanistan. 



L. picta Christ. (62 g). Forewing olive brown, varied with ochreous and whitish scales and speckled pieta. 

 with black: inner line double, black, filled in with olive, obliquely waved, the inner arm dentate; outer line 

 black, finely edged inwardly with ochreous, oblique outwards and toothed on the veins, forming a bifid pro- 

 jection on veins 3 and 4, oblique upwards to below reniform stigma, then vertical; reniform bluntly triangular, 

 olive outlined with black and ochreous; space between the two lines filled up sometimes with olive fuscous, 

 sometimes with yellowish brown, or the space beyond inner line may remain ochreous; submarginal line 

 ochreous white, followed by a thick rufous line and preceded by black teeth between the veins; marginal 

 area pale bluish with a black spot at apex, or bluish grey, or fuscous; a waved black terminal line; hindwing 

 white, with a broad black terminal border, connected by a streak with the black cell lunule, and with two 

 white marginal spots; the fringe white, brown between the spots: inner margin fuscous; the typical form is 



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