LEUCANIA. 273 



1903. Leucania abdominalis, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 338; C. & S. 



no. 1656. 



Whitish ochreous. Pore wing with the veins indistinctly pale- 

 streaked ; the streak on median nervure long, narrow, and 

 indistinct ; the dark suffusion below median neryure and outlining 

 the apical fascia narrow and often slight ; an indistinct postmedial 

 curved series of dark specks, and in some specimens a marginal 

 series. Hind wing white suffused with fuscous. Underside grey 

 irrorated with dark scales ; fore wing with the disk fuscous ; a 

 postmedial spot on costa ; hind wing with cell-spot and postmedial 

 series of specks. 



Hah. Dharmsala; Khandala; Bengal. Exp. 39 millim. 



1904. Leucania sinuosa, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 102 ; C. $ S. no. 1693. 



Head and thorax ochreous white ; abdomen fuscous, ochreous at 

 extremity. Pore wing ochreous white; a diffused dark brown 

 streak along median nervure, expanding from beyond end of cell to 

 the outer margin below apex ; a black spot at centre of cell ; a 

 white streak on median nervure expanding into a spot at the angle 

 of cell, often disconnected from the streak ; denticulate ante- and 

 postmedial curved black lines ; a series of dark marginal and cilial 

 spots. Hind wing dark fuscous. Underside with postmedial and 

 marginal series of black specks ; hind wing with a prominent cell- 

 spot. 



One specimen from E. Pegu is slightly redder ; the dark orbicular 

 and reniform stigmata larger ; the ante- and postmedial sinuous 

 lines much less prominent. 



Hah. Dharmsala ; Sikhim ; E. Pegu. Exp. 38 millim. 



1905. Leucania denticula, Hmpsn. III. Het. ix, p. 90, pi. 161, fig. 10. 



2 . Differs from sinuosa in wanting the dark brown fascia below 

 median nervure of fore wing and beyond the cell, so that the dark 

 quadrate reniform stands out as conspicuously as the orbicular ; 

 the white en median nervure almost obsolete. 



Hah. Ceylon. Exp. 44 millim. 



1906. Leucania exempta, Wlk. Cat. xi, p. 710 ; C. $ S. no. 1671. 

 Leucania costalis, Moore, P. Z. S. 1877, p. 603, pi. 59, fig. 11 ; 



C. $ S. no. 1666. 



% . Differs from denticula in the reniform stigma being rufous ; 

 the ante- and postmedial lines less prominent ; the hind wing 

 paler. 



Hah. Sikhim ; Malabar ; Ceylon ; Burma ; Andamans. Exp. 

 38 millim. 



1907. Leucania v-album, Hmpsn. III. Het. viii, p. 69, pi. 144,fig. 10. 

 Differs from sinuosa in the fore wing being slightly suffused 



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