. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 136 NOCTTJIDiE. 2242. Leiicochlaena leucocera. (Plate XCIX. fig. 12.) Bombycia leucocera, Hrnpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 207 (1894). $ . Head and thorax clothed with grey-white and reddish-brown hair; antennae white ; abdomen ochreous brown mixed with whitish. Fore wing whitish tinged with brown and irrorated slightly with black, the costal area whiter, the veins slightly streaked with blackish ; subbasal line represented by blackish striae from costa and cell; antemedial line blackish, interrupted below costa, then
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 136 NOCTTJIDiE. 2242. Leiicochlaena leucocera. (Plate XCIX. fig. 12.) Bombycia leucocera, Hrnpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 207 (1894). $ . Head and thorax clothed with grey-white and reddish-brown hair; antennae white ; abdomen ochreous brown mixed with whitish. Fore wing whitish tinged with brown and irrorated slightly with black, the costal area whiter, the veins slightly streaked with blackish ; subbasal line represented by blackish striae from costa and cell; antemedial line blackish, interrupted below costa, then oblique, sinuous; claviform small, narrow, yellowish white defined by black, the yellowish interrupting the antemedial line ; orbicular very small, white defined by black except above and with slight rufous mark in centre, oblique elliptical; reniform white defined by black and wnth brown centre, narrow and acutely angled inwards on median nervure; postmedial line black-brown defined by whitish on outer side, strongly bent outwards below costa, then minutely waved, excurved to vein 4, then oblique; subterminal line white defined on inner side by small rather wedge-shaped black spots betM'een veins 7 and 2 indenting the line which is very slightly angled outwards at vein 7; a fine black terminal line; cilia whitish mixed with rufous and with three very slight lines through them. Hind wing pale sufi'used with ochreous brown and slightly tinged with fuscous except on costal area; cilia yellowish white ; the underside whitish irrorated with brown and the veins streaked with brown, a small discoidal lunule and sinuous postmedial line. Palpi with the 3rd joint rather long. Hah. Kashmir, Scinde Valley (ieccZi), 1 $ type. Elr^j. 46millim. Sect. III. AnteniiEe of male with short branches. 2243. Leucochlasna leucogonia. Helio'phdbus leucogonia, Hmpsu. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. iii. p. 426 (1905). S . Head and thorax bright rufous mixed with some ochreous ; abdomen ochreous tinged with rufous. F
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