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darker than the body elsewhere. Thorax with a whitish band in 

 front. Abdomen whitish testaceous. Fore wings very slightly 

 speckled with black, with a white Hue as usual on the median vein, 

 behind which there is a blackish streak ; a diffuse blackish streak on 

 the discal areolet ; a row of black marginal dots. Hind wings 

 cinereous, with white ciliae. Length of the body 7 lines ; of the 

 wings 14 linss. 



a. Sandwich Islands. Presented by the Lords of the Admiralty. 



Country unknown. 

 Group 1. 

 Like the first European group. 



83. Leucania aversa. 



Pallide cervina ; thorax fasciis anticis fuscis ; alee antica linea 

 discali alba fusco marginata strigisque exterioribus fuscis 

 albo marginatis ; posticus pallida, marginibus laiis fuscescen- 

 tibus. 



Pale fawn-colour. Thorax with brown bands in front. Fore 

 wings with a white brown-bordered discal line, and with brown 

 white-bordered exterior streaks. Hind wings pale, with broad 

 brownish borders. Described from an injured specimen. Length 

 of the body 6 lines ; of the wings 14 lines. 



84. Leucania tenebeifeea. 



Mas. Pallide cervina ; thorax fasciis duabus anticis nigris ; ala> 

 anticce testacece fusco subconspersce y vitta lata discali diffusa 

 fusca, striga interrupta nigricante exteriore guttisque margi- 

 nalibus nigris ; posticce cance, marginibus cinereis nigro gut- 

 tatis, 



Male. Pale fawn-colour. Thorax with two black bands in 

 front. Fore wings testaceous, slightly speckled with brown, with a 

 broad brown somewhat diffuse stripe in the disk, and with a much 

 interrupted blackish streak in front of the exterior part of this 

 stripe ; a row of black marginal dots. Hind wings hoary, slightly 

 cinereous about the borders, where there is a row of indistinct black 

 dots. Length of the body 6 lines ; of the wings 13 lines. 



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