LEUCANIA. 



Genus LEUCANIA. 



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Leucania, Ochs. Eur. Schmett. iv, p. 81 (1816). 

 Donacklora, Sodoffsky, Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 1837, p. 14. 

 Aletia, Hiibn. Verz. p. 239 (1818). 

 Hyphilara, Hiibn. Verz. p. 239. 

 Bcrolia, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1881, p. 334. 



Type, L. comma, Linn., from the Palsearctic region. 



Range. Universally distributed, except the Australian region. 



Palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint roughly scaled, the 3rd 

 prominent, short, naked, and depressed; proboscis fully formed; 

 eyes hairy: antennae minutely ciliated in male; head not deeply 

 retracted into the thorax, which is smoothly scaled; abdomen with 

 scarcely a trace of dorsal tufts on basal segments ; tibiae and tarsi 

 clothed with short hair. Fore wing with veins 8 and 9 anasto- 

 mosing to form the areole, vein 7 being given off from the end of 

 it, 10 from before the end. 



A. Fore wing with a prominent, short, white L.-mar7c or streak on 

 median nervure. 



a. Males with large areas of metallic scales on the underside of wings, 

 and large paired tufts of black hairs on the basal segment of 

 abdomen beloiv. 



1891. Leucania decisissima, Wlk. Cat. xxxii, p. 624; JBntl. III. Het. 

 vi, pi. 109, fig. 9 ; C.fy 8. no. 1667. 

 Leucania nareda, Feld. JReis. Nov. pi. 109, fig. 9. 

 Leucania lanceata, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1881, p. 340; C. $ 8. no. 1678. 

 Leucania pulchra, 8nell. Midd.-Sum., Lep. iv. p. 41, pi. 4, figs. 3, 4. 



S . Head, thorax, and abdomen reddish ochreous, the last 

 suffused with fuscous. Pore wing ochreous, the veins outlined by 

 rufous streaks, especially those limiting the cell ; a white L-mark 

 on median nervure with a black speck inside it ; a pale oblique 



Fig. 149. — Leucania decisissima, <$ . \. 



fascia from the apex outlined by dark suffusion ; antemedial, post- 

 medial, and marginal series of black specks, the first two curved 

 and the first obsolescent. Hind wing ochreous, suffused with 

 fuscous, especially on outer area. Underside with the disk of fore 



