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PARAKANCHIA; LEUCOMA. By Dr. E. Strand. 
umbrina. 
exclamatio¬ 
nis. 
disjuncta. 
litura. 
testacea. 
juvenis. 
colon. 
obsoleta. 
eremaea. 
ostracina. 
grisea. 
fenestrata 
L. umbrina Moore (Vol. II, t. 20 a), a Himalayan insect, occurring in the palearctic part of Cashmir 
as well as in the Indo-Australian part bordering on this country. Vid. Vol. II, p. 122. 
L. exclamationis Roll. (= rubida Wkr ., cervina Wkr., rotundata Wkr.) (Vol. II, t. 19 i) and its form 
ab. disjuncta Wkr. (= rotunda Moore) is distributed from the southern confines of palearctic Central Asia 
across India to Ceylon. Vid. Vol. II, p. 122. 
L. litura Wkr. is like exclamationis (Vol. II, t. 19 i), but dark greyish-brown, its range extending from 
Cashmir across a great part of India to Tenasserim. 
L. testacea Wkr. (= uniformis Hmps .) (42 c). Comp. Vol. II, p. 122, also about the forms: juvenis 
Wkr. and colon Hmps. (42 c). -— The larva of testacea is dark flesh-coloured with a lighter dorsal band, in which 
there is a dark line. Neck canary-coloured. Each segment with tufts of brown hair, at the segments 4 to 7 
there are very thick tufts of umbra-brown hair. Head bare and brown. 
L. obsoleta F. (42 b). White. The costal margin of the forewing and the palpi ferruginous-reddish. 
Abdomen grey. Expanse of wings: 35 mm. Australia (Port Essington, Moreton Bay). Queensland (Brisbane). 
-— eremaea Meyr. (42 b). Both sexes 30 to 34 mm. Head and palpi light ochreous-orange. Antennae white 
with ochreous-brown pinnae, in the d 14, in the $ 1. Thorax ochreous-white, in front light ochreous-orange. 
Abdomen ochreous-whitish, in the $ beneath orange and above behind with an orange hue. Legs ochreous- 
orange. Forewing somewhat oblong-triangular, in the more elongately extended, the border obliquely rounded 
off; rather thinly scaled, white ochreous, lighter in the $, the costal margin more intensely ochreous, particularly 
in the $. Hindwing in the whitish ochreous, in the $ more whitish. Duaringa, Queensland. — There is a 
$ before me, taken by Dr. Seitz near Sydney in October, which I must place to eremaea Meyr. It deviates from 
L. suffusa Wkr. (42 d) C (from the typical locality!) by the following marks: forewing a little broader, at the 
end a little obtuser, the costal margin towards the apex more curved, the ochreous-yellowish dusting of the 
forewings more intense, the abdomen at the end and beneath intensely ochreous-yellow, the hindwing more 
pointed with a more oblique border, the abdomen projects but little beyond the anal angle, the basal half of 
the posterior margin of the forewing is intensely dusted with ochreous-yellow. 
L. ostracina Trnr. $: white. Abdomen ochreous-whitish. Forewing with a reddish-brown, oval 
longitudinal spot in the disc and a heap of dark reddish-brown scales beyond the middle of the wing as well 
as with a narrow, interrupted, dark marginal line. Fringes white. Hindwing with fringes uni-coloured white. 
Expanse of wings: 36 mm. Queensland. 
12. Genus: Parakaiicliia B.-Bak. 
Palpi small, porrect, hairy. Antennae with two short combs (2). Legs hairy, hindlegs with 2 pair of 
spurs. Forewings: veins 4 and 5 from the angle, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 forked, 8 and 9 near the apex, 10 in the 
middle between 7 and 9, 6 in the middle between the cell and 7. Areola present. Hindwing: 4 and 5 from 
the angle, 6 and 7 forked. 
P. grisea B.-Bak. (45 a). $: body dark gre;y, anal segment lighter. Forewing grey, speckled darker, 
with a blackish, broad, antemedian undulate band, a blackish spot at the end of the cell, a blackish, interrupted 
subterminal line rising from two subcostal spots and being angled in the fold. Hind wing uni-coloured grey. 
Expanse of wings: 50 mm. Babooni in British New Guinea in August. 
13. Genus: Leucoma Steph. 
As to this genus compare what has been said in Vol. II, p. 123 about the genera denoted there as 
Arctornis Germ, and Stilpnotia Ww. and Humphr. To the 16 palearctic forms enumerated there we add here 
yet more than 40 Indian resp. Australian forms. The genus is besides distributed in the Ethiopian region and 
in America. 
L. fenestrata Hmps. (39 a). Light reddish-white. Forewing with a large, irregular hyaline spot in 
and beyond the cell-end, a hyaline subapical spot, a chestnut-brown spot at the end of the cell, and numerous 
indistinct stripes of erect scales. Hindwing with a smaller hyaline spot in and beyond the cell-end. Expanse 
of wings: 38 mm, Ceylon, 
