583 



2021. Meliana uniformis. (Plate XCV. fig. 23.) 



Leucania uniformis, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 339 ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. 

 ii. p. 280. 



$ . Head and thorax whitish tinged with pale pinkish brown ; 

 palpi and legs tinged with brown ; abdomen whitish, dorsally tinged 

 with brown. Fore wing pale brownish suffused with pink, leaving 

 paler streaks below the cell, in end of cell, and as an oblique series 

 of streaks from beyond end of cell to apex ; the veins white defined 

 by fine very slight brown streaks, the interspaces of terminal half 

 also streaked with brown ; a slight black streak below base of cell ; 

 the antemedial line represented by a black point in submedian 

 fold ; a black point in lower angle of cell ; a postmedial series of 

 black points, bent outwards below costa and oblique below vein 4 ; 

 a terminal series of black points. Hind wing white, the veins and 

 termen tinged with ochreous, some black points on termen from 

 apex to vein 2. 



Hah. N.W. Himalayas, 1 5 type, Dharmsala {Hoding), 1 J • 

 Exp. 34 millim. 



2022. Meliana albilinea. 



Noctua albilinea, Hiibn. Samuil. Ex. Scbmetfc. ii. p. 25, ff. 337, 338 (1827) ; 



Eiley, 9ih Eep. Ins. Mo. p. 50, ff. 14, 15 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. 



p. ]86. 

 Lcacania diffusa, Wlk. is. 94 (1856). 

 Leucania moderata, Wlk. ix. 114 (185(5). "■ 

 Leucania harveyi, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. i. p. 9, pi. 1. f. 14 



(1873). 

 Leucania chilensis, Biitl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1882, p. 115. 

 Leucania obscurior. Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxv. p. 185 (1902); Dyar, 



Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 1H2. 

 Leucania tetera. Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxv. p. 187 (1902) ; Dyar, Cat. 



Lep. N. Am. p. 1()2. 

 Leucania neptis. Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxv. p. 188 (1902) ; Dyar, 



Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 162. 



Head and thorax brownish ochreous ; antennae with the shaft 



Fig. 166. — Meliana albilinea, (^ . \. 



white ; tegulce white except the tips which are brown, and with a 

 brown line near base often present ; abdomen brownish ochreous. 

 Fore wing ochreous ; the costal area purplish grey ; the veins 

 slightly streaked with brown ; a white streak just above median 

 nervure and some greyish and brown below it, with fine black 

 streaks below base and end of cell ; ciaviform very slightly defined 



