578 



NOCTtJITl.nO. 



2012, Meliana flammea. 



Melm flammea, Curt. Brit. Ent. vi. pi. 201 (1828) ; Stepb. 111. Brit. Eut., 



Haust. iv. p. 207; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 189. 

 S^mira duhiosa, Treit. Schmett. Eur. x. 2, p. 86 (1835). 

 Konagria aruniU7iicola, Doiibl. List Brit. Lep. p. 7 (1850). 

 Meliana stenoftera, Staud. Eom. Mem. vi. p. 474 (1892). 



Head and thorax whitish tinged with purplish ; palpi and legs 

 oehreous ; abdomen ochreous white slightly ivrorated with fuscous. 

 Fore wing flesh-colour, the costal and inner areas irrorated with 

 fuscous, a red-hrown shade from middle of cell to submcdian fold, 

 met beyond lower angle of cell by a wedge-shaped shade from 

 termen below apex ; the discal and submedinn folds tinged with 

 ochreous ; the veins white defined by fine brown streaks, the inter- 

 spaces of terminal area also streaked with brown ; a postmedial 



Fig. 165. — Meliana jlammea, (^ . \. 



series of black points nearly erect from costa to vein 4, then very 

 oblique, often almost obsolete ; a terminal series of black points. 

 Hind wing white, more or less completely tinged with pale reddish 

 brown ; the underside white irrorated with brown, a terminal 

 series of black points. 



Ab. 1. stenojjtera. Smaller; fore wing narrower, the medial fascia 

 more distinct. — Amurland. 



Hab. Britain, Leech Coll. ; France ; Holland ; Denmark : 

 Germany, Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls.; Austria; Hungary; 

 Amurland, Ussuri. Ex2^. 32-40 millim. 



Larva. Barrett, Lep. Brit. v. p. 129, pi. 200. f. 2; Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 66. 



Eather light brown ; dorsal line pale, dark-edged; subdorsal line, 

 a triple lateral line, and the subspiracular line pale, the last greyish 

 ochreous ; head with dark reticulations. Food-plant, Phragmites. 

 8-9. The larva hides by day in the old reed-stems. 



2013. Meliana longipennis, n. sp. (Plate XCV. fig. 18.) 



$ . Head and thorax pale reddish brown ; abdomen wliitish, 

 dorsally suffused with fuscous, ventrally tinged with rufous. Fore 

 wing ochreous browm, tinged with rufous except towards costa, and 

 irrorated with fuscous, especially on inner and terminal areas ; the 

 veins with fine pale streaks and on terminal half defined by fine 

 brown streaks, the interspaces also streaked with brown ; some 

 slight points on termen. Hind wing white, the terminal area 

 sutlused with reddish brown from apex to vein 2 ; the underside 



