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the abdomen brownish drab. Forewing white, the base, a broad antemedian band, a large discal spot, a bent 
postmedian band and a narrow marginal line greenish brown-bronze. Hindwings drab. Length of forewings: 
cJ 11, ? 13 mm. Biagi on the Mambare River, British New Guinea. (January). 
L. plicata Hmps. (Ida). The shows a small fold at the costal margin before the middle,’ the hindwing plicata. 
showing one at the proximal margin; the antennae are thickened and scaled towards the base. Head and thorax 
are yellowish-brown, the abdomen more brownish-grey. Forewing yellow, dusted with red-brown. Hindwings 
yellow, towards the margin brownish, at the proximal margin orange. Kapaur (New Guinea). 
L. laniafera Hmps. (14 a). The shows a costal fold inverted downward, the hindwing large scent- laniafera. 
scale pads in and above the cell. Body brownish-grey, anal tuft yellowish. The forewings are yellow, dusted 
red-brown, with a black, dark median line expanded at the proximal margin into a lustrous purple spot. Hindwing 
brownish-grey. Kapaur. 
L. iridescens Lucas (14 a). The B exhibits only narrow scent-scale stripes on the hindwing. Forewing iridescens. 
ochreous-yellow, hindwing lighter. Queensland. 
L. phyllodes Meyr. Hindwing beneath with a small heap of scales at the cell-encl, above with a large phyllodes. 
scent-scale spot in and below the cell. Head and thorax red-brown; abdomen ochreous-yellow. Forewing red- 
brown, in the marginal area ochreous-yellow, dusted red-brown. Hindwing ochreous-yellow, towards the margin 
brownish, scent-scales orange. New South Wales (Sydney). 
L. albofasciata Rothsch. $ head snow-white; antennae in the basal quarter white, the rest brown; albofascia- 
thorax and abdomen blackish chocolate-coloured; forewing the same, a spot near the base, a median and a ia - 
postmedian transverse band, and an apical spot are snow-white. Hindwing in the two basal thirds diaphanous 
white, in the distal third sooty brown. Length of forewings: 12 mm. Biagi, Mambare River, Biitish New Guinea. 
L. albiceps Rothsch. $ head snow-white; antennae, thorax, abdomen and forewing chocolate-brown, albiceps. 
Hindwing in the two basal thirds diaphanous white, in the distal third sooty brown. On the forewing a scent- 
organ with a long hair-tuft, and on the hindwing a scent-scale spot on a costal lobe. The $ is larger. Perhaps 
a form of albofasciata. Length of forewings: $ 10, $ 12 mm. Biagi, Mambare River, British New Guinea. 
L. aroa B.-Bak. B head and thorax brown, abdomen brownish-grey, forewing greyish-brown with aroa. 
a very broad darker band occupying the whole middle of the wing. Margin dark, fringes with lighter ends. 
Hindwings dark brownish-grey. The forewing shows beneath at the costal margin a swelling; the costal margin 
of the hindwing is expanded into a hairy lobe, below it a scent-scale spot and in the cell a tuft of long, light 
hair. Expanse of.wings: 22 mm. Aroa River, in April. 
L. fuliglnosa Wkr. (14 a). The <$ is unicolorously blackish-brown with a reddish-brown anal tuft, fuliginosa. 
the hindwing without a scent-scale spot; the $ is lighter with traces of an oblique median line. Borneo, Sarawak. 
L. pallida Hmps. (14 1). The $ has much narrower, light yellowish-brown wings with an indistinct, pallida. 
curved, postmedian line. Hindwings yellowish-white. Borneo. 
L. melaleuca Wkr. (14 a) has deep blackish-brown forewings; abdomen and hindwings are white, melaleuca. 
very slightly tinted yellowish. Sula. 
L. castanea Rothsch. Head orange, antennae chestnut-brown; thorax deep brown; abdomen wood- castanea. 
coloured brown with an orange anal tuft. Forewing chestnut-brown; a median transverse line and the distal 
margin sooty brown. Hindwing brownish-grey, base and fringes lighter. Length of forewings: 13 mm. Oetakwa 
River (Dutch New Guinea). 
L. aurantiaca Rothsch. Head, antennae and thorax brownish-orange; abdomen sooty-black, the aurantiaca. 
first ring and anal tuft yellowish. Forewing brownish-orange, a narrow transverse line before the middle and a 
postmedian one are greyish-brown. In some specimens the space between is filled up with dark. Length of 
forewings: 13 mm. Mount Goliath (Dutch New Guinea). 
L. caprimimoides Rothsch. Antennae tawny-brown; head and thorax reddish chocolate-brown; ab- caprimi- 
domen sooty brown, anal tuft Isabel-coloured. Forewing with a curved costa and a slight excision before the mo ides. 
apex, reddish chocolate-brown; a transverse zigzag line before the middle and a postmedian one are fine black, 
at the proximal angle a black spot. Hindwings drab. The species looks like Caprimima rotunda Hmps. (17 1). 
Length of forewings: lOQg mm. Biagi. 
