IIELIANA. 



577 



a fuscous wedge-shaped mark to termeu, where it expands to below 

 apex, and with some short black streaks from its inner edge, above 

 vein 5 extending almost to cell ; a short black fascia in terminal 

 part of submedian fold ; a terminal series of black points ; cilia 

 brown intersected with white. Hind wing white, sometimes tinged 

 with ochreous ; a more or less prominent terminal series of black 

 points ; the underside with the costal and terminal areas irrorated 

 with black, a slight discoidal lunule. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the black markings replaced by pale 

 brown or grey. 



Hah. Br. E. Africa, Machakos (Orawshay), 4 J , 2 $ , type, 

 Kikuyu {Crawshay), 2 c^ , Eb Urru (Betton), 7 c? , 1 2, Gwelil 

 {Betton), 1 c^ . Exp. 24-30 millim. 



Sect. II. Antennas of male ciliated. 



A. Tibia of male thickly fringed with long hair on both sides. 



2011. Meliana rubripennis. 



Leucania rubripennis, Grote & Rob. Trans. Am. Ent. Soe. iii. p. 179, pi. '1. 

 f. 77 (1870) ; Smith, Oat. Noct. N. Am. p. 186. 



<S . Head and thorax red-brown ; tegulae white at base, red- 

 brown at tips ; abdomen ochreous brown. Fore wing ochreous ; a 

 purplish-pink fascia from median uervure and vein 3 to submedian 

 fold from base to termen ; a wedge-shaped patch above vein 4 



Fig. 164. — Meliana I'ubri-peniiis, J. \. 



extending on termen to below apex, and with slight ochreous streak 

 on it above middle of vein 4 ; costal area tinged with purplish pink 

 towards apex. Hind wing ochreous. Underside tinged witli 

 brown. 



Nab. U.S.A., Texas, 1 S type. Ex2). 40 millim. 



B. Tibia; of male fringed with hair on outer side only. 



a. (Meliana). Abdomen long and slender ; fore wing pro- 

 duced and acute at apex, 

 ff.'. Fore wing with the veins of costal area streaked with 



white flammea. 



b\ Fore wing with the veins of costal area not streaked 



with white longipennix. 



vol.. V. 



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