. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. 591 Sect. II. Antennie of male bipectinate with moderate branches, the apex serrate. A. Fore wing with the veius /uscous, not irrorated with pale scales foroveura. B. Fore wing with the veins fuscous, irrorated with pale scales. a. Hind wing with the cilia ochreous umca. b. Hind wing with the cilia white, tinged with ochreous at base dunedinevsis. *2038. Leucania toroneura. (Plate XCYI. fig. 1.) Leucaiiia toroneura, Meyr. Trans. Eut. Soc. 1901, p. 665. (S. Head, thorax, and abdomen brownish ochreous tinge
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. 591 Sect. II. Antennie of male bipectinate with moderate branches, the apex serrate. A. Fore wing with the veius /uscous, not irrorated with pale scales foroveura. B. Fore wing with the veins fuscous, irrorated with pale scales. a. Hind wing with the cilia ochreous umca. b. Hind wing with the cilia white, tinged with ochreous at base dunedinevsis. *2038. Leucania toroneura. (Plate XCYI. fig. 1.) Leucaiiia toroneura, Meyr. Trans. Eut. Soc. 1901, p. 665. (S. Head, thorax, and abdomen brownish ochreous tinged with fulvous, the last with the ventral surface irrorated with fuscous. Fore wing brownish ochreous with a slight fulvous tinge ; the veins prominently streaked with fuscous. Hind wing ochreous suffused with fuscous ; cilia ochreous white ; the underside pale brownish ochreous, the veins slightly sfreaked with fuscous. Hah. New Zealand, Mt. Cook, typef 6 in Coll. Meyrick. Exp. 34 millim. This may be a variety of L. tinica. 2039. Leucania unica. Leucania unica, Wlk. ix. 112 (1856); Hudson, N. Zealand Mdthi & Butterflies, p. 12, pi. iv. f. 17. Nonagria juncicohr, Guen. Eut. Mo. Mag. v. p. 2 (1868). Head and thorax brownish ochreous with a slight fulvous tinge; abdomen brownish ochreous, whitish at base. Fore wing brownish. Fig. 168.—Leucania unica, (^. \. ochreous with a fulvous tinge ; the veins slightly streaked with fuscous; the antemedial line represented by black points on sub- costal and median nervures and vein 1 ; the postmedial line represented by a series of black points on the veins excurved from costa to vein 4, then oblique. Hind wing pale brownish more or less strongly suffused with fuscous, the cilia ochreous; the under- side greyish ochreous irrorated with fuscous. Hah. Xew Zealand, Marlborough (Skellon), 3 c?, 1 ? , type. Exp. 34 millim. 2040. Leucania dnnedinensis. Spmlotis dunedincnsis, Butl. ? ined. (Plate XCVI. fig. 2.) S . Head, thorax, and abdomen p
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