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ill the interspaces of terminal area ; a terminal series of dark brown 

 points : cilia white at tips. Hind wing white ; the veins streaked 

 with brown towards termen ; a more or less developed diffused 

 subterrainal yellow-brown band ; a brown line at base of cilia 

 sometimes present. 



Hah. W. AxxsTRALiA, Sherlock R. (Qlements), 1 d , -i $ , liae- 

 boiirue, 1 c5' . B.vp. 26-36 millim. Type t in ^lus- Oxon. 



*157. Melicleptria mesoleuca. (Plate LVII. tig. 14.) 

 Canthylidia mesoleuca, Lower, ined. 



5 . Head and thorax pale yellow-brown ; palpi below, pectus, 

 legs, and abdomen white. Pore wing silky golden brown, irrorated 

 with white ; a white streak in discal fold from middle of cell to 

 termen, a slight streak above vein 6, and a streak in submedian fold 

 from base to termen, narrowing towards base. Hind wing white 

 irrorated with brown ; the terminal area suffused with brown from 

 apex to vein '2. 



Hah. X. S. Wales, Broken Hill, type f § in Coll, Lower. Exp. 

 28 millim. 



158. Melicleptria neiirias. (Plate LVII. fig. 15.) 



Heliothis neurias, Meyr. Trans. Eiit. Soc. 1902, p. 2(i. 



Head and thorax yellowish brown or grey-brown ; pectus and 

 legs white and brown; abdomen white, dorsally tinged with yellow- 

 brown. Fore wing pale yellow-brown or grey-brown ; the veins 

 more or less prominently streaked with dark brown ; a white fascia 

 through the cell to termen : the interspaces of terminal area some- 

 times streaked with whitish ; a terminal series of dark jioints. 

 Hind wing white, suffused with brown except on costal area or 

 towards termen only. 



Hah. ^. Australia, Cassini I. (./. J. Walker), 1 cJ , Poi't 

 Darwin, 1 2, typet 2 in ColLMeyrick; W. Australia, Sherlock R. 

 {CJemeats), 3 cj , 6 2 . Ea^. 26-34 millim. 



159. Melicleptria cramboides. (Plate LYII. fig, 16.) 

 Letwania cramboides, Guen. Xoct. i. p. 84 (1852). 



Rather dark grey-brown. Fore wing with white fascia through 

 the cell to termen. Hind wing slightly paler ; the underside 

 wliitish, with the veins and termen tinged with brown. 



Hah. Victoria {liaynor), 2 (5 , 1 2 • Exp- 34-40 millim. 



160. Melicleptria osmida. (Plate LYll. fig. 17.) 

 HcUockcilus OS, nidus, Swiiib. A. M. X'. II. (7) viii. p. 12ii (1901). 



Head and thorax pale yellow-brown ; pectus and legs white and 

 pale brown ; abdomen white, dorsally tinged with pale yellow- 

 brown. Fore wing pale yellow-brown, with a white fascia through 



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