. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 284 >, LcHcnuilis schhniiherijeri, Fiiclis, Soc. Ent. xviii. p. 50 (1903). Lcuraiiif/s beta, Kiisiiezov, Taskeut, Izv. Turk. Old. Russ. geogr. Obsc. iv. 8, p. 173 (l'.)U8). Head and thorax rufous ; anteinue blackish ; palpi white iiTorated with l)ro\vii ; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen white, the legs irrorated with brown, the dorsal surface of abdomen tinged and irrorated with brown. Fore wing fuscous brown with a leaden grey tinge and some whitish irroration ; the base pale rufous with some whitish at


. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 284 >, LcHcnuilis schhniiherijeri, Fiiclis, Soc. Ent. xviii. p. 50 (1903). Lcuraiiif/s beta, Kiisiiezov, Taskeut, Izv. Turk. Old. Russ. geogr. Obsc. iv. 8, p. 173 (l'.)U8). Head and thorax rufous ; anteinue blackish ; palpi white iiTorated with l)ro\vii ; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen white, the legs irrorated with brown, the dorsal surface of abdomen tinged and irrorated with brown. Fore wing fuscous brown with a leaden grey tinge and some whitish irroration ; the base pale rufous with some whitish at inner margin ; antemedial line double, curved, waved, the inner line indistinct, the outer line black, followed by a broad grey-white band; reniform with ochreous annulus and its centre defined by brown, very narrow and slightly angled inwards on median nervure ; a grey-white band beyond it from costa to vein 3 before the slight blackish postmedial line, which is oblique and sinuous from costii to vein 3, then retracted to lower edge of reniform and erect and sinuous to inner margin ; subterminal line slight, whitish defined on inner side by blackish, minutely waved, slightly angled outwards below vein 7 and excurved at middle; a slight waved blackish terminal line with black points at the inter- spaces. Hind wing with the basal half white, the cell and inner. 'F\g. Q>S.—Leucunitis roda, J. \. area suffused with brown, the terminal half fuscous brown, its iimer edge joined at lower angle of cell by an oblic^ue fuscous discoidal bar; slight white marks on temien at apex and discal fold and an oblique bar at vein 2; cilia white Avith a brown 2)atch at middle and tinged with brown towards tornus. Underside white ; fore wing with oblique fuscous band from middle of costa to submedian fold where it is confiuent ^\\i\\ a curved fuscous postmedial band connected with terniien by fviscous patches at apex and middle ; hind wing as above but without the brown suffusion in cell and


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