46 ORIENTAL ENTOMOLOGY.
FIGURE 2,
LEUCOPHLEBIA LINEATA. WESTW.
(Upper Figure.)
Leucophlebia alis elongatis mtegris antieis paUide puniceis, .-itto lata mediana longitudinali nlbida, ramis vence
media?níB albis ; alis posticis fuhis, corpora elongato pimieeo-albo, dorso fusco
Leucophlebia with the wings long and entú-e, the fore ones pale pmk, having a broad longitudinal stripe of yellowdsh
bnfT down the middle (naiTowest towards the base), ™th the branches of the median vein white ; hind wings dark
fulvous ; body long, pinkish white ; brown in the middle of the back. Expansion of the fore win^s 2 - 3 a inches
MiabrtsCenti-al India, Assam, &c. In the Collections of the British Museum, Col. Hearsey, Capt. Boys and
\Vestwood. (Communicated by Major Jenkins.) r J
O B S E R V A T I O N S . - T I I Í S beautiñú insect appears to possess the characters of a distinct genus in tlie
classification of the exotic Noctm-nalHeteroceronsLepidoptera; its elongated body and ^ino-s give
It an analogy ^-ith some of the Sphingidse, as ^ e ü as to some of the prominent moths, especially to
Leiocampa Dictoeaj the structure of the antennai of the male is veiy simüai- to that of the genus
Smerinthus as well as Hammatophora hucephala, but they ai-e more robust towards the tip in the
species before us, than in the latter insect. The veins of the fore wings are nearly arranged as in
Leiocampa Dictoea, with the exception that the small branch emitted from the subcostal vein near the
tip of the wing m the last named species, and in a great number of the allied British genera, is not
perceived in the species before us, in which respect it also agrees with Smerinthus; the antennae of
the female are very short and simple, and the spü-al tongue is rather elongated.
The flower represented in the plate is the Chinese pink, Dianthus chineáis.
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