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LEUCOGONIA; METAXANTHIA. By W. Warren. 
picta. 
ekeikei. 
kebeensis. 
cosmopis. 
P. picta Hmps. (Vol. 3 pi. 481). Forewing dark fawn colour, washed in places with reddish 
and sprinkled, especially along costal and terminal areas, with white scales; inner and outer lines darker, 
double; the inner wavy and vertical, the outer sinuous, and somewhat obscure; a diffuse dark lunule 
at end of cell, the space beyond it without white scaling, but with the veins white; obliquely below 
apex on vein 5 is a short reddish longitudinal streak, and on costa before apex a reddish patch; hind¬ 
wing brownish fawn colour, with a large blurred dark cell spot and grey curved outer line; at the anal 
angle is a grey patch, containing some fulvous, orange, and dark scales. Assam and Sikkim, N. India; 
also from W. China. 
91. Genus: L<‘ii<‘o^oiai:i Hmps. 
Tongue fully developed; frons with small truncate conical corneous prominence at middle and 
corneous plate below it; palpi porrect, the second segment long, roughly scaled below, the third smooth, 
depressed, the extremity dilated; antennae of $ simple, filiform; thorax and abdomen smoothly scaled, 
without crests, except a slight tuft on basal segment of dorsum; fore wing broadly triangular; costa 
straight; termen oblique, nearly straight ; neuration normal. Type L. ekeikei Beth-Baker. 
L. ekeikei Beth.-Baker (21 h). Forewing bright rufous; the costal edge white; a broad white streak 
on inner margin irrorated with dark brown, most thickly at the margin, and slightly edged above with 
black; terminal area chocolate brown, with white irroration, which is thickest externally, and defined on 
inner side by a fine white line, straight to vein 2, there forming a small white lunule conjoined to inner 
marginal streak; subterminal line slight, minutely waved, whitish; terminal line waved, chocolate-brown; 
fringe whitish, with a brown line through it; hindwing yellow, the costal area white to near apex; ter¬ 
minal area fuscous tinged with reddish brown; its inner edge oblique from below costa beyond middle 
to above vein 2, then irregular and ending on vein 1 beyond middle; termen suffused with white, inter¬ 
sected by dark wedge-shaped streaks above veins 3 and 2; two waved whitish subterminal lines from 
vein 2 to above tornus; fringe white marked with fuscous towards tornus. New Guinea; Queensland, 
N. Australia. 
L. kebeensis Beth.-Baker (21 h). Forewing yellow strongly tinged with pink; the costal edge white; 
a dark brown streak on inner margin with slight white irroration, defined above by a silvery white streak; 
a broad terminal cupreous brown band, its inner edge minutely waved where it joins the inner marginal 
streak; subterminal line double, dark brown, slightly angled inwards on submedian fold; terminal line 
dark brown, fine and waved; hindwing golden yellow, with broad reddish brown terminal band from vein 
6 to near tornus, its inner edge minutely waved and angled inwards on vein 1 halfway to base, with 
two oblique whitish bars on it above tornus; a terminal row of dark brown lunules with yellowish 
suffusion on inner side; fringe white with brown line through it. New Guinea. 
92. Genus: Metaxaeiilsia limps. 
Tongue fully developed; frons with rounded prominence with a slight vertical ridge at middle and 
corneous plate below it; palpi porrect, the second segment broadly scaled, short and stout, the third 
minute; antennae of lamellate, serrate; thorax and abdomen smoothly scaled; basal segment of dor¬ 
sum with small crest; forewing with apex blunt, termen evenly curved; neuration normal. Type M. 
cosmopis Lower. 
M. cosmopis Lower. Forewing redbrown becoming grey brown towards costa; the area below 
submedian fold white merging into yellow and this into pale rufous towards inner margin; an oblique 
black striga from median vein to submedian fold before middle; a fine white streak beyond cell below 
vein 4 and a shorter streak below vein 3 before the obliquely curved black outer line, which runs from 
below apex to submedian fold, the area beyond it yellowish white, turning to grey beyond the obscure 
fine white obliquely curved subterminal line, which also runs from below apex to submedian fold; terminal 
line fine and black; fringe grey brown with a dark line through it; hindwing yellow with dark fuscous 
terminal band, broad at costa, narrowing to tornus, its inner edge slightly angled at veins 5 and 1; 
fringe yellowish with a dark line through it. Thursday Island, Cape York, and Cooktown, Queensland, N. 
Australia. 
