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NOCTUIDiE. 
nervure just beyond the middle of the cell ; the marginal area bright chestnut. Hind wing 
with the bright yellow basal patch extending nearer the anal angle ; the pale yellow spot on 
the disk smaller. Thorax with the tegulse pale yellow, but with no streak on the vertex ; 
abdomen without the black segmental bands. 
NOCTUID^. 
LEUCANINjE. 
Leucania inframicans. (Plate CLXI. fig. 2.) 
Expanse 6 lj2 inch. 
Male. Closely allied to L. decisissirna, Wlk. ; the fore wing purplish white instead of 
ochreous white, and without the brick-red streaks and suffusion, but clouded with olivaceous 
fuscous ; tlie two median nervules from the end of the cell are pure white with dark streaks 
above them, and the other nervules are whitish; a broad dark longitudinal streak below the 
subcostal nervure from the base to the apex ; the outer margin dark below the oblique pale 
streak. Hind wing ochreous wliite, only slightly tinged with fuscous towards the centre of 
the outer margin. Underside covered with glittering metallic scales as in L. decisissima and 
exsanguis, Wlk. ; the marginal points minute. 
Leucania exterior, Wlk. (Plate CLXI. fig. 3.) 
Leucania exterior, Wlk. Cat. ix. p. 106. ^ 
Expanse 1^ inch. 
Male. Head, thorax, and abdomen pale wainscot-brown. Fore wing with very 
indistinct pale streaks on the veins and in the interspaces; postmedial and marginal series of 
minute dark specks. Hind wing iridescent yellowish white ; some brown on the outer 
margin. 
Leucania denticula. (Plate CLXI. fig. 10.) 
Expanse S i^^ch. 
Male. Closely allied to L. sinuosa, Moore ; the fore wing without the dark longitudinal 
streak from base to outer margin ; the autemedial sinuous line more regular towards the 
costa ; the postmedial line with the sinuations small ; the cilia ochreous, not chequered. 
Leucania exempta, Wlk. (Plate CLXI. fig. 9.) 
Leucania exempta, WVc. Cat. xi. p. 710. 
Expanse $ 1^ inch. 
Female. Head, thorax, and abdomen pale wainscot-brown. Fore wing pale wainscot- 
