LEUCANIA. FLOCCIFEEA. 281 



1935. Leucania bifascia, Hmpsn. III. Het. ix, p. 91, pi. 161, fig. 6. 



Whitish with a slight pink tinge ; thorax black-brown ; fore 

 wing with a black-brown fascia from base, becoming very broad in 

 and beyond the end of cell ; a white speck at lower angle of cell ; 

 postmedial and marginal series of specks ; veins rather pale. Hind 

 wing pinkish fuscous. 



Hah. Ceylon. Exp. 31 millira. 



1936. Leucania proleuca. 



Axylia albicosta, Hmpsn. III. Het. viii, p. 70, pi. 144, fig. 20 

 (prseocc). 



Markings as in bifascia, from which it differs in not having the 

 pink tinge ; the head and abdomen blackish ; the fore wing wholly 

 blackish except the white costal area and some rufous on marginal 

 area. 



Hah. Nilgiris ; Travancore. Exp. 34 millim. 



1937. Leucania irregularis, Wlk. Cat. xi, p. 712; C. 8? S. no. 1721. 

 Axylia abstracta, Swinh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 221, pi. vii, 

 fig. 13. 



<$ . Brownish ochreous. Fore wing with a dark brown tri- 

 angular patch occupying the area between lower angle of cell, apex, 

 and outer angle ; fine chocolate streaks above and below median 

 nervure and towards the apex ; a white spot at lower angle of cell. 

 Hind wing white, the margin suffused with brown. Underside 

 immaculate. 



Hab. Moulmein ; Bhamo. Exp. 30 millim. 



Genus FLOCCIFERA, nov. 



Type, F. erigicla, Swinh. 



Range. Burma. 



Eyes naked and without lashes ; proboscis fully developed ; palpi 

 upturned and smoothly scaled, reaching vertex of head; antennae 

 of male minutely ciliated ; tibiae without spines ; thorax and 

 abdomen without tufts ; a pair of tufts of long hair from base of 

 abdomen below. 



1938. Floccifera erigida, Swinh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 221. 



Pale red-brown. Fore wing with indistinct subbasal and ante- 

 medial waved lines ; a black speck at middle of cell, some specks on 

 discocellulars ; traces of a narrow diffused medial band angled at 

 lower end of cell ; an indistinct postmedial slightly waved line with 

 a series of specks beyond it ; an irregularly waved submarginal 



