. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 440 NOCTCIDJE. yellowish white between veins 6 and 3 with some black scales on its outer edge, then almost obsolete and incurved, with a black spot on it at inner margin aud silvery blue mark before it on vein 2, some white points beyond it on costa ; snbterminal line slight and silvery white from below vein 4 to above vein 1, slightly waved and angled inwards at vein 2, a fine white line beyond it on termen : some silvery blue scales on termen from apex to the white line ; cilia red-brown, greyish at tips. Hind wing yellowish
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 440 NOCTCIDJE. yellowish white between veins 6 and 3 with some black scales on its outer edge, then almost obsolete and incurved, with a black spot on it at inner margin aud silvery blue mark before it on vein 2, some white points beyond it on costa ; snbterminal line slight and silvery white from below vein 4 to above vein 1, slightly waved and angled inwards at vein 2, a fine white line beyond it on termen : some silvery blue scales on termen from apex to the white line ; cilia red-brown, greyish at tips. Hind wing yellowish white slightly irrorated with brown, except on inner area ; postmedial and subterminal black stride from inner margin ; a terminal series of brown strife ; cilia white, brownish at apex : the underside yellowish white, the costal half irrorated with red-brown, a brown discoidal spot with diffused bar above it from costa and a maculate postmedial line incurved below vein 3. Hah. W. China, Ta-chien-lu (Pra«), ^ 6\ Sikhim, 5000-10,000' {Dnd(/eon, PUcher), 1 J , 1 $ type. ). 3<i-42 millim. Genus LEUCOGONIA. nov. Tvpe, L. eceirei. Proboscis fully developed; palpi porrect to well beyond froas, the 2nd joint rather broadly scaled, the 3rd rather long, dilated at extremity and down- turned ; frons with small truncate conical corneous prominence at midrlle aud corneous plate below it; eyes large, round ; antennae of male almost simple; thorax clothed with hair mixed with some scales and without crests; tibiae moderately fringed with hair ; abdomen clothed with rough liair towards base and with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing broadly triangidar, the apex rounded, the termen oblic[Ue, nearly straight; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the inner margin Ion?; veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing wi
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