. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. scales; slijibt white jjoiiits in iind beyond lower angle of cell; a curved series of white points on the veins. Hind wing ochreous brown : cilia white, tinged with oclireous at base. Under- side of fore wing with the raarginal areas suffused with whitish ; hind wing whitish iirorated with brown. Hah. Kew Zealanp, Dunedin (Purdie), 1 d type, i^.i;^'- ^6 millim. Sect. III. .\ntennne of male minutely serrate and fasciculate. .\. Fore wing with dark streak in base of submedian fold ... aemiviiia/fr. \\, l',


. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. scales; slijibt white jjoiiits in iind beyond lower angle of cell; a curved series of white points on the veins. Hind wing ochreous brown : cilia white, tinged with oclireous at base. Under- side of fore wing with the raarginal areas suffused with whitish ; hind wing whitish iirorated with brown. Hah. Kew Zealanp, Dunedin (Purdie), 1 d type, i^.i;^'- ^6 millim. Sect. III. .\ntennne of male minutely serrate and fasciculate. .\. Fore wing with dark streak in base of submedian fold ... aemiviiia/fr. \\, l',,rp wing without dark streak in ba!=e of submedian fold, hlenheimensis. 2041. Leucania semivittata. Leucania semivittaia, Wlk. xxxii. 6'28 (IStio): Hudson, New Zealand Moths & Butterflies, p. 13, pi. iv. if. 2], 22. Head and thorax ochreous tinged with rufous ; spurs handed with black; abdomen ochreous irrorated with brown. Fore wing. Fig. 169.—Leucania gemivittata, (^. i. ochreous ; a rufous fascia below the cell to below origin of vein 2. faintly continued as a curved mark to vein 2 beyond the cell, and a slight oblique streak above inner margin near base ; a subbasal black jioiut in cell and three anteraedial points on the veins ; three points in upper part of outer half of cell and a slight streak in lower part ; a rufous shade below median nervure continued beyond the cell to meet a slight triangular shade from termen below apex; a black point just beyond lower angle of cell; a series of points bent outwards below costa, oblique below vein 4 ; a terminal series of points. Hind wing ochreous suffused with fuscous ; cilia ochreous ; the underside ochreous, the costal area slightly tinged with rufous, a discoidal point, some postmedial streaks on the veins, and some striae on termen sometimes present. Hah. ^'EW Zealand {J. J. WaJher), 1 c? , 1 $ , Auckland (), 1 c7 type, {Muthew) 1 d , 1 ? . Exp. 42 millim. *2042. Leucania hlenheimensis. (Plate XCYI. f


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