580 noctuid-t;. 



i'. Fore wing without black patch beyond lower 



angle of cell rosea. 



ifi. Hind wing wholly snffused with fuscous. 



a*. Fore wing with the costal edge white niveicosta. 



b^. Fore wing with the costal edge not white tenebra. 



■b^. Fore wing with the veins not streaked wilh white. 



o^. Hind wing uniformly sufi'used with fuscous citronella. 



P. Hind wing white. 



a*. Fore wing with pale fascite in discal and sub- 

 median folds, and postmedial series of black 



pointp rubra. 



■b*. Fore wing without markings preeffracilis. 



2014. Meliana vana. 



Agroth vana, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1885, p. 453, pi. 27. f. 9 ; Hrapsn. Moths 

 Ind. ii. p. 271. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen ochrcons ; palpi black at sides ; 

 antennae blackish ; thorax dorsally black, with vinous-red doriial 

 ridge ; abdomen dorsally tinged with fuscous. Fore wing })ale 

 ochreous brown, the veins whitish ; a black lascia below cell, narrow 

 at base, verj^ strong at middle, and tapering to extremity, followed 

 by a whitish fascia extending to termen ; a rather elliptical black 

 streak in cell towards extremitj' ; a black patch below end of cell 

 and another beyond its extremity ; a pale oblique fascia from apex 

 to vein 2, with some small dentate black marks on its outer edge, 

 the area beyond it suffused with tuscous ; a terminal series of black 

 points ; cilia pale purplish red, with a dark lino through them. 

 Hind wing ochreous white, the terminal area tinged with fuscous 

 in female. 



Hah. Bombay, 1 J , Poona (Su'inhoe), 1 c? , 2 5 , type. Ex^j. 

 30 millim. 



2015. Meliana atrifera, n. sp. (Plate XCY. fig. 19.) 



5 . Head and thorax ochreous whitish mixed with brown ; 

 abdomen ochreous white irrorated with brown. Fore wing ochre- 

 ous whitish slightly irrorated with brown ; a black streak below 

 base of cell ; difi'used black and brown streaks in cell before middle 

 and at extremity and above and below vein 1 before middle ; a pale 

 oblique fascia from apex to vein 1 defined by the interspaces before 

 and beyond it being suflPused with brown, and with blackish streaks 

 in them, leaving the veins streaked with white. Hind wing ochreous 

 white tinged with brown, especially on terminal area ; the under- 

 side whitish slightly irrorated with brown. 



Ilah. Chili, Valparaiso (J. J. Walker), 1 § type. Ea-j). 30 

 millim. 



2016. Meliana exsul. (Plate XCV. fig. 20.) 



Leucania crovl, Wlk. ix. 109 (18.56). 

 Leucania tencbrifcra, Wlk. i.\. 113 (1856). 



c? . Head and thorax yellow-brown with a rufous tinge ; tegulae 



