. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 284 " NOCTUIDiE. Leucanitis schlumhergeri, Fiichs, Soc. Ent. xviii. p. 50 (1903). Leucanitis beta, Kusiiezov, Taskent, Izy. Turk. Otcl. Russ. geogr. Obsc. iv. 8, p. 173 (1908). Head and thorax rufous ; antennae blackish ; palpi white irrorated with brown ; 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 in
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 284 " NOCTUIDiE. Leucanitis schlumhergeri, Fiichs, Soc. Ent. xviii. p. 50 (1903). Leucanitis beta, Kusiiezov, Taskent, Izy. Turk. Otcl. Russ. geogr. Obsc. iv. 8, p. 173 (1908). Head and thorax rufous ; antennae blackish ; palpi white irrorated with brown ; 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 f I'om costa to vein 3 before the slight blackish postmedial line, which is oblique and sinuous from costa 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. Fig. 68.—Leucanitis roda, ^, \. area suffused with brown, the terminal half fuscous brown, its inner edge joined at lower angle of cell by an obhque fuscous diseoidal bar; slight white marks on termen at apex and discal fold and an oblique bar at vein 2 ; cilia white with a brown patch 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 confluent with a curved fuscous postmedial band connected with termen by fuscous patches at apex and middle ; hind wing as above but without the brown suffusion in cell and on inner area.
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