. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. illMLEUCAXIA. -85 Gcuus MIMLEUCANIA, nov. Type, M. perstriata. Proboscis fully developer! ; palpi obliquely upturned. tJie 2ud joint rcacliing to abour middle of frons and moderately sealed, the ^rd short; frous smootli with ridges of hair above and between antenn;c; eyes large, round; antenna} of male minutely serrate or laminate; thorax smoothly clothed with hair and liair-like scales and without crests; tibiie moderately fringed with hair; abdomen with some rough hair at base but without crests. Fore wing with the apex round
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. illMLEUCAXIA. -85 Gcuus MIMLEUCANIA, nov. Type, M. perstriata. Proboscis fully developer! ; palpi obliquely upturned. tJie 2ud joint rcacliing to abour middle of frons and moderately sealed, the ^rd short; frous smootli with ridges of hair above and between antenn;c; eyes large, round; antenna} of male minutely serrate or laminate; thorax smoothly clothed with hair and liair-like scales and without crests; tibiie moderately fringed with hair; abdomen with some rough hair at base but without crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and crenulate ; veins ;5 and .'» from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 froui 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; b obsolescent from below middle of di?cocellulars; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing witii the cell near base only. Sect. I. Anteinise of male minutely serrate. 3897. Mimleucania leucosoma. Hadena leucosoma, Feld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 101). f. 31 (1874). Bianthoecia graminicolens. Bull. A. Si. K. H. (5) ii. p. '12b (1878). Head and thorax grey-white luixed with pale hrown ; palpi brown except at tips ; patagiu slightly edged with black-brown ; ii-oiit of pectus and legs brown, the tarsi slightly ringed with white ; abdomen white slightly tinged with brown. Fore wing reddish brown, the costal area while tinged with brown and the veins finely streaked with brown, the inner margin whitish ; a large triangular white-defined autemedial mark in submedian inter- space, open towards base and partly defined by black streaks, a downcurved white streak below it above inner margin defined by. Fig. 81.—Mimleitcafiia Jencosoma, (^. -|. black streaks above and below; an oblique white fascia in sub- median fold, from cell to postniedial line ; orbicular minute, round, white defined by black and with brown centre ; reniform oblique bar-shaped, with brownish centre and white annu
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