582 NocxuiDjj. 



interspaces also streaked with brown ; a termioal series of black 

 points ; cilia chequered white and brown. Hind wing white, the 

 terminal area suffused with fuscous ; the underside with the costal 

 and terminal areas irrorated and suffused with fuscous, a terminal 

 series of black points. 



Hah. Br. E, Africa, Machakos (Craivshay), 4 J , 1 ? , type, Eb 

 Urru (Betton), 2 S ; Uganda, Mulema (Dogf/eU), 1 $ ; Natal, Kar- 

 kloof {Marshall), 1 (^ ; Cape Colony, Trauskei (Miss F. Barrett), 

 1 2 • ^'Vp. 24-30 millim. 



2019. Meliana scotti. (Plate XCV. fig. 22.) 

 Leiicania scottii. Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1886, p. 391. 



5 . Head and thorax white mixed with pale reddish brown ; 

 abdomen white. Fore wing ochreoua white tinged with brown- 

 pink ; the veins white, defined by fine brown-pink streaks, the 

 median nervure and vein 4 more prominently white ; the inter- 

 spaces of terminal half with brown-pink streaks ; a brown shade 

 below median nervure and slight black streak in base of submedian 

 fold ; a rather oblique fuscous streak from lower angle of cell to 

 termen above vein 5 ; black points above median nervure at origin of 

 vein 2 and in lower angle of cell ; a terminal series of black points. 

 Hind wing white, the terminal area tiiiged with brown from apex 

 to vein 2 ; the underside with the costal area slightly irrorated with 

 brown, some black points on termen from apex to vein 2. 



Hah. Queensland, Rockhampton, 1 $ type. Exp. 28 millim, 



2020. Meliana curvilinea. 



Leucania curvilinea, Hmpsn. 111. Het. B. M. viii. p. 67, pi. 144. f. 3 (1891); 

 id. Moths Ind. ii. p. 279. 



Head and thorax grey strongly suffused with purplish red ; tegulaj 

 with two dark lines ; abdomen violaceous white, the ventral surface 

 irrorated with black. Fore wing violaceous white irrorated with 

 black ; the veins white defined by fine brown streaks ; a dark streak 

 in the cell in discal fold and the interspaces of terminal area 

 streaked with black ; a slight blackish streak below base of cell 

 and an oblique streak above inner margin before middle ; a black 

 point in lower angle of cell ; a postmedial series of points bent 

 outwards below costa and oblique below vein 4 ; a more or less 

 distinct oblique pale fascia from apex defined below by a triangular 

 brownish shade from termen below apex ; a terminal series of 

 black points. Hind wing white more or less tinged with brown ; 

 the underside ochreous white, the costal area slightly tinged wdth 

 violaceous. 



Hah. Madras, Nilgiris (Hampson), 1 d , 4 $ , type, Palnis 

 (Campbell), Id; Ceylon, Gampola (Mackwood), 1 5, Maskelyia 

 (Pole), 1 2 ; Pbrak, Gopiiig (Kunstler), 1 d; Haixan, Five-Fingered 

 Mts. (Whitehead); 1 c? . H-rp. 32-34 millim. 



