562 NOCTtJIDiE. 



1975. Borolia melianoides. (Plate XCIV. fig. 24.) 



Leucania inelianoides, Moschl. Verb. z.-b. Wien, xxxiii. p. 291, pi. xvi. f. 4 

 (1884). 



Head and thorax ochreous white, slightly tinged with rufous and 

 irrorated with a few dark scales ; tegulse with two fine dark linos ; 

 abdomen ochreous dorsally tinged wilh brown. Fore wing ochreous 

 sparsely irrorated with black ; a blackish streak below base of cell 

 and a slight oblique streak above inner margin before middle : a 

 rufous streak in and beyond cell ; the median nervure streaked 

 with white except towards base, slightly defined by black and 

 hooked on discocellulars, placed on a diffused fuscous fascia 

 extending to termen, on which it expands somewhat towards apex ; 

 the veins on terminal area pale defined by fine dark streaks, the 

 interspaces also with dark streaks ; the postmedial line often 

 represented by a curved series of black points ; a terminal series of 

 black points ; cilia sometimes intersected with white. Hind wing 

 white, the terminal area usuall)' more or less tinged with brown ; 

 the underside with the costal and terminal areas irrorated with 

 brown, a terminal series of black points. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the fuscous median fascia mnch darker, 

 the inner area suffused with fuscous, the hind wing almost 

 wholly tinged with fuscous. 



Hah. Abyssinia, Zegi Tsana (Derfcn), 1 $ ; Br. E. Africa, Eb 

 Urru (Betton), 4 J, Machakos (Crawshay), 2 c? , 1 5 > Nairowa 

 (Betton), 1 2 i Mashonalaxd (Dobhie), 3 $ ; Natal, Estcourt 

 ( IliUchinsoti), 1 § ; Cape Coloxt, Transkei (Niss F. Barrett)., 7 6 ■, 

 3 2 , Annshaw {Miss F. Barrett), 3 5 ; Madagascar, Betsileo 

 {Cowan), 1 S . Eap. 34-36 millim. 



1976. Borolia taguiia. 



Leucania tacuna, Feld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 110. f. 22 (1874). 

 Leucania substitufa, Wllgrn. ffifv. Vet.-Akad.F6rh. 187;'), jj. 105. 



Head and thorax ochreous tinged with reddish brown ; tegulse 

 pale, with two or three dark lines ; palpi, frous, and legs tinged with 

 fuscous ; abdomen ochreous white slightly tinged with rufous. 

 Eore wing ochreous, tinged with rufous and sparsely irrorated with 

 black; a black streak below base of cell and another in lower 

 extremity of cell from before middle, ending in a prominent black 

 point; median nervure and vein 3 streaked with whitish ; a rufous 

 fascia below the cell expanding triangularly beyond the cell to 

 termen and with a curved difi'used black streak on its upper edge ; 

 costal area tinged with rufous leaving the veins paler; traces of a 

 curved double postmedial series of dark points on the veins ; a 

 terminal series of black points. Hind wing white, the costal and 

 terminal areas tinged with ochreous towards apex ; some dark 

 points on termen. 



Ab. 1. The streak and point in lower angle of cell reduced to two 

 points. 



