MELICLEPXRIA. 101 



Fore ■wing silky ochreous white, with more or less prominent 

 and extensive dark brown suffusion on inner area below the 

 cell and vein 4. Hind wing white, with a slight ochreous 

 tinge ; the veins and terminal area more or less suffused with, 

 brown. 



Hah. W. Australia, Sherlock II. (Clements), 3 d" , 1 §. E.vp. 

 22-26 millim. Type t in Mus. Oxon. 



164. Melicleptria moribiinda. (Plate LVI I. tig. 20.) 



Leicca.nia iiioribuiida, Guen. Noct. i. p. !)o (1852). 



LcHcania itivaria, Wlk. ix. Ill (]8o6). 



Lc mania fumata, Lucas, Pr. Liun. See. N. S. W. (2) iv. p. 1098 (1889). 



Ochreous, more or less thickly irrorated with, fuscous brown; 

 head and thorax tinged with fuscous. Hind wing suffused with 

 fuscous towards termen. Underside of fore wing with obscure 

 discoidal spot. 



Hah. (Queensland, Brisbane (Turner), 1 c5' , 1 $ ; N. S. Wales, 

 Sydney (Raynor), S -, 6 $ , type and type invaria. Exp. 28- 

 30 millim. 



105. Melicleptria aleiirota. (Plate LVII. lig. 21.) 

 Canthi/Udia alcarota. Lower, ined. 



Head and thorax grey-white mixed with, brown : abdomen 

 white, dorsally tinged with ochi'eous. Fore wing grey-white, 

 thickly irrorated -nlth brown ; a more or less developed post- 

 medial series of black points on the veins excurved from costa 

 to vein 4, then oblique. Hind wing white suffused with dark 

 brown, especially towards termen ; cilia white. Underside of 

 fore wing with the disk suffused with brown and with dark 

 discoidal spot ; hind wing white, slightly irrorated with brown. 



Hah. AV. Australia, Sherlock 11. {Clements), 2 cT , 2 5, Derby, 

 1 c? • E.cj). 2() millim. Type f in Coll. Lower. 



- 160. Melicleptria aberrans. (Plate LVll. tig. 22.) 

 Ucliotkis aberrant, Biitl. Trans. Ent. Soe. 1886, p. 405, 



S . Head and thorax dull brown ; abdomen whitish brown. 

 Fore wing pale dull brown ; slight anteraedial dark points oji 

 median nervure and vein 1, with traces of a diffused oblique 

 band beyond them ; a postmedial series of small almost dentate 

 black spots curved from costa to vein 4, then oblique ; traces of a 

 rather paler streak from middle of cell to termen and of some 

 subterminal spots ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing 

 pale brown ; the terminal area suffused with dark brown, leaving 

 a pale subterminal mark above and below vein 3. 



Hah. Queensl.\nd, Peak Downs, 1 (S type. Exp. 28 millim. 



