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NOCTUJD.y,. 



sliijhtly irrorated with fuscous: a curved postmedial series of black 

 points and a terminal series ; cilia yellowish white, with a diffused 

 fuscous line through thera. Hind wing yellowish white, the veins 

 and terminal area tinged with brown ; the underside with post- 

 medial series of fuscous points on the veins and terminal series. 



5 . Slightly paler. 



Hah. Algeria, Hammam-es-Salahin {Walsiwjham), 4 cJ , 2 $ , 

 type. Exp. 38-44 millim. 



Larva feeds in Arundo phraguntes with that of Sef^amia von- 

 aijrioides, the perfect insects being almost identical in appearance. 



Genus MELIANA. 



Type. 



Melia, Curt. Brit. Ent. vi. p. 201 (182D), nee Bilb. Crust. 1820 . flammea. 



Melicma, Curt. Brit. Ent. vi. Index (1829) flammea. 



Neleucania, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxv. p. 203 (1902) nivcicosta. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, fringed with hair in 

 front ; frons with rounded prominence with corneous plate below it ; eyes 

 large, rounded ; antennte of male ciliated ; head and thora.x clothed with hair, 

 with scales below it and without crests ; tibiaj fringed with very long hair ; 

 abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the apex somewhat acute, the termen 

 rather obliquely rounded ; veins 3 Mud 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper 

 angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. 

 Hind wing with veins 3, 4 and 6, 7 shortly stalked ; 5 obsolescent from middle 

 of discocellulars ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base. 



Sect. I. Antenna; of male bipectinate with short branches. 



2010. Meliana pectinata, n. sp. 



Head and thorax white, tinged with violaceous and mixed with 

 some rufous ; tegulte with slight dark lines at middle and near 

 tips ; legs with blackish streaks ; abdomen ochreous white, tinged 

 with rufous towards extremity. Fore wing white, tinged with 

 violaceous and usually with rufous and irrorated sparsely with 

 black ; a black streak below base of cell and a slight oblique streak 



Fig. 103. — Meliana pccfinaia, (J . 



above inner margin before middle; the median uervure and 

 veins of terminal half white defined by fine brown streaks, 

 the interspaces of terminal area also streaked with brown, the 

 white streak on median nervure forming a hook on discocellulars, 

 a black fascia above terminal part of median nervure, continued as 



