. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. LEDCOSIGMA. 127 yellowish at base, red-brown at tips. Hind winf^ yellowish white tinged w'ith red-brown ; cilia yellowish white; the underside with the costal area tiuged with rufous, a slight discoidal lunule. Hub. Madagascar, lietsileo {Cowan), 1 (S type. £'.*;;^j. 3U millim. Genus LEUCOSIGMA, nov. Type. L. uncifera. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, slender, the 2nd joint reaching to vertex of head, the 3rd moderate; trons smooth; eyes large, round ; antenna; of male ciliated; thorax clothed chiefly with scales, t
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. LEDCOSIGMA. 127 yellowish at base, red-brown at tips. Hind winf^ yellowish white tinged w'ith red-brown ; cilia yellowish white; the underside with the costal area tiuged with rufous, a slight discoidal lunule. Hub. Madagascar, lietsileo {Cowan), 1 (S type. £'.*;;^j. 3U millim. Genus LEUCOSIGMA, nov. Type. L. uncifera. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, slender, the 2nd joint reaching to vertex of head, the 3rd moderate; trons smooth; eyes large, round ; antenna; of male ciliated; thorax clothed chiefly with scales, the pro- and uietathorax â with spreading crests ; tibiae moderately fringed vrith hair, the inner spurs long; abdomen with some rough liair at base, but without crests. Fore wing with the apex rectangular, the ternien excised from vein 6 to 4 where it is angled, then oblique and crenulate; veins 3 and 6 from near angle of cell; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8. 9, 10 stalked; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the termen slightly excised at discoidal fold ; veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of diseocellulars ; G, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with cell near base only. *4462. Leucosigma uncifera. Leucosigma uncifera, Druce, A. M. N. H. (8) i. p. 302 (1898). (5. Head and thorax fiery red mixed with some yellow; frons with lateral white spots; basal joint of antennas white in front; tibiae and tarsi rufous ; abdomen white suffused with red-brown, the anal tuft with fiery red mixed. Fore wing fiery red mixed with yellow, white and some brown, the veins streaked with brown ; a subbasal white striga from costa to an irregular white j^atch in base of cell; antemedial line represented by an oblique brown striga from costa and oblique line from vein 2 near its origin to inner margin, both defined by white on inner side; a crescentic white. Fig. 39.âLeucosigma uncifera, c?. \. spot in and below end of cell expanding into white spots at inner extremity and at upper angl
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