LEUCANIA. 
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Leucania semiusta. (Plate CXLIV. fig. 17.) 
Expanse 1^ inch. 
Male. Fore wing : apex acute, outer margin nearly straight ; ochreous grey, with brown 
speckles ; an ochreous lunule at end of cell ; a diffused rufous patch along the median nervure 
and beyond end of cell ; a dusky subapical patch on outer margin. Hind wing Avhite; veins 
dusky; apical and exterior areas fuscous. Underside pearly white; disc of fore wing dusky; 
hind wing with some antecilial black specks towards apex. Head, thorax, and abdomen 
ochreous grey. 
A very distinct species. 
Lencania vittata. (Plate CXLIV. fig. 4.) 
Expanse 1^ inch. 
Female. Fore wing : apex blunt, outer margin rounded ; ochreous white ; a black streak 
below the median nervure from base to origin of first median nervule ; a prominent white 
streak with small black ones round it on the median nervure at its extremity, situated on a 
pale ruddy-brown diffused patch ; a ruddy and dark brown streak from the outer margin 
below the apex to first median nervule; a dark streak at lobe of inner margin; a series of 
black antecilial specks ; cilia fuscous, ochreous white in continuation of the nervules. Hind 
wing pearly grey ; apical and exterior angles smoky. Underside pearly grey ; costa and apices 
of both wings and disc of fore wing fuscous. Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous white. 
Allied to L. plana from S. Africa, which has a series of marginal black specks on the 
hind wing. 
Leucania v-album. (Plate CXLIV. fig. 10.) 
Expanse i2~1tV iiich. 
Male. Fore wing : apex acute, outer margin rounded ; ground-colour white ; a broken 
ruddy-brown streak above the submedian nervure near the base ; central portion of costa 
smoky black ; a ruddy-brown and smoky-black patch occupying the disc and continued to 
inner margin as a diffused band ; a large white V-shapcd mark in the cell at its extremity ; a 
brown subapical patch on outer margin ; a series of antecilial black specks ; cilia brown and 
white. Hind wing smoky black. Underside pearly white, variegated with smoky-brown 
diffused patches, some of them forming an indistinct postmedial band on fore wing ; a short 
blackish transverse streak from costa three fourths from base ; hind wing with a lunule at end 
of. cell. Head and thorax pale ruddy brown ; abdomen fuscous. 
Nearest to L. sinuosa. 
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