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with tlie pale parts of the wing less pronounced and the J-shaped marking shorter : secon- 
daries with the whole disk, excepting towards the costal and abdominal margins, smoky 
blackish, with black marginal spots. All the wings below, excepting at the margin, sparkling 
metallic silver: primaries with the usual black costal spot beyond the cell. Expanse of Avings 
36 millim. 
Darjiling [Lidderdale, ^c). 
Nearest to L. bistrigata, the Indian form of L. l-album. 
Leucania hamifera. (Plate CIX. fig. 7.) 
5 . Leucania exsaaguis, var. ?, Wall'er (nee Guen.), Cat. Lep. Het. ix. p. 104. n. 62 (1856). 
S . Leucania hamifera, Wcdhcr, Journ. Linn. Soc. vi. p. 179 (1862). 
Both sexes alike on the upper surface and much resembling the European L. loreiji, 
excepting that the primaries are of a pale flesh-brown tint, and that at the extremity of the 
main stem of the median vein there is a white j-shaped marking, as in the preceding species : 
the secondaries also have a broad, diffused, pale brown border. On the under surface the male 
is entirely different, being densely sprinkled from the base to beyond the middle of the wings 
with sparkling silver scales, as in the preceding species, excepting that they cover less of the 
wing-surface. Expanse of wings 37 millim. 
? , North India ; ? > Sarawak, Borneo. 
The true L. exsanguis of Guenee cannot be this species ; it is said to resemble the 
Chilian L. impuncta (which L. hamifera does not), and it is distinctly stated to have no marking 
on the wings beyond the pale veins, atul here and there a few badly defined black dots, which 
in well-marked specimens tend to form a double line; some little verj^ fine black dots in front 
of the fringe, and at the apex an oblique pale streak. The female of L. hamifera is figured. 
APAMIID^. 
PEODENIA, Gu<!n. 
Prodenia infecta. (Plate CIX. fig. 8.) 
Prodenia infecta, Waller, Cat. Lep. Ret. ix. p. 190. u. 12 (1856 ). 
Prodenia insignata, WaVcer, I. c. p. 197. n. 14 (1856). 
Laphygma squalida, Wallier, I. c. Suppl. ii. p. 652 (1865). 
Prodenia venustula, Wall:er, I. c. p. 654 (1865). 
Var. Prodenia permunda, WaR-er, J. c. xi. p. 723 (1857). 
Primaries above varying from cupreous-brown to black-brown ; costa spotted to beyond 
the middle with black and whitish, dotted beyond the cell with white ; a large whitish apical 
spot dotted with blackish at the apex ; central band indicated by two pairs of zigzag blackish 
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