meliana] CARADRINIDAE 67 



{Phragmites) ; 8, 9. The larva hides itself by day in the old 

 reed-stems. 



13. Lbucania, 0. 



Head rough-scaled ; eyes hairy. Antennae in ^ ciliated. 

 Thorax with or without slight anterior crest. Abdomen not 

 crested. 



A very large cosmopolitan genus, equally common every- 

 where ; it is a development of Mdanchra, to which some of the 

 New Zealand species give such a complete transition that a 

 line of demai'cation can hardly be drawn. The larvae all feed 

 on Gramineae. 



1. First and second lines dark, entire . . 2. 



,, ,, ,, dotted or absent . 4. 



2. Hindwings brassy-whitish . . 7. vitellina. 



,, not whitish . . . .3. 



3. First line sharply angulated below middle 6. conigera. 



„ ,, not angulated below middle . 1. turca. 



4. Foi'ewings with black median basal dash . 5. 



,, without black basal dash . . 7. 



5. Reniform forming a clear white dot . . 6. 



,, not forming a white dot . 8. comma. 



6. Hindwings wholly white . . 4. Loreyi. 



,, with termen fuscous . 9. indrescena. 



7. Forewings witli white median streak throughout 



5. littoralis. 

 „ without such streak . . 8. 



8. Second line indicated by dots . . .9. 



,, ,, wholly absent . . 12. inipudens. 



9. Second line indicated by a series of dots . 10. 



,, ,, ,, by two dots only . .13. 



10. Forewings with distinct oblique aj^ical fuscous 



dash . . .11. unipwicta. 



„ without such dash . . .11. 



11. Veins whitish, outlined with fuscous . 10. obsoleta. 



,, not outlined with fuscous . .12. 



12. Reniform curved-linear . . .2. lithargyrea. 



,, dot-like . . .3. alhipuncta. 



13. Hindwings with postmedian series of black marks 



13. straminea. 

 ,, without such series . . . 14. 



14. Hindwings dark grey . . .14. im'pura. 



,, white . . . 15. pollens. 



