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Show 410 MR. F. MOORE ON NEW LEPIDOPTERA [June 19, black scales, some of which are clustered somewhat linearly below base of the cell and beyond its end ; a black spot at lower end of the cell, and a marginal row of minute black dots. Hind wing pale cinereous-brown ; cilia white. Body greyish-ochreous ; palpi and legs above darker; tip of abdomen cinereous-brown. Expanse ly^ inch. Hab. Kangra. In coll. British Museum. LEUCANIA PERCISA, n. sp. Fore wing greyish pinkish-ochreous, with a conspicuous white line extending along the median vein from base to exterior margin, the line bordered on both sides by purplish-black, most strongly beneath at the base, the black also extending upward to the apex ; a black spot at lower end of the cell, and a discal and marginal row of less distinct minute black dots. Hind wing cinereous-white, with pale cinereous-brown outer border ; cilia white. Body greyish-ochreous ; a blackish collar across the thorax ; head ochreous-brown ; palpi and legs dusky-brown. Expanse, 8 1|, $ 1-f inch. Hab. Kangra. In coll. British Museum. LEUCANIA BIFASCIATA, n. sp. Fore wing pale purplish-red, with a pale yellowish fascia along base of the costa and another along the posterior margin ; median and outer veins to the margin whitish, the former with a slightly black border, and the latter with an indistinct intermediate black streak ascending to the apex ; an indistinct discal row of minute black dots. Hind wing pale cinereous-brown, suffused with red on the margin and cilia. Body pale yellow, tip of abdomen ochreous ; thoracic crest tipped with red; palpi and legs purplish-red. Expanse 1T 3 0- inch. Hab. Kangra. In coll. British Museum. Allied to L. griseifasciata. ALETIA FRATERNA, n. sp. Allied to A. albicosta, both the fore and hind wing and the body being of a dark purplish reddish-ochreous colour. Fore wing with paler short transverse strigae ; median veins and discoidal streak greyish ; the orbicular and reniform spot obsolete. Underside of both wings and body also much darker coloured. Expanse, o" lj inch. Hab. Kangra. In coll. British Museum. ALETIA EXANTHEMATA, n. sp. Fore wing yellowish-ochreous, speckled with purplish ochreous, the speckles being more or less confluent along the costal border ; across the wing is a curved antemedial and a waved postmedial blackish-speckled line, followed by a similar speckled discal line and a marginal row of dots ; between the latter is a dusky submarginal |
