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NOCTDID.T".. 



sliijhtly irrorated with fuscous : a curved postmedial series of black 

 points and a terminal scries ; cilia yellowish white, with a diffused 

 fusoous lino through them. ITind win<^ yellowisli white, the veins 

 and terminal area tin<:;od with brown; the underside with post- 

 medial series of fuscous points on the veins and terminal series. 



2 . Slightly pah>r, 



I/ab. AiAiKKiA, llammam-es-Salahin (Walsin(j7iani), 4 <^ , 2 $, 

 type. E.vp. 3S-44 millim. 



Larva feeds in Arundo pJwar/tmtes with that of Sexamia von- 

 ai/rioides, the perfect insects, being almost identical in appearance. 



Genus MELIANA. 



Type. 



Mclia, Ourt. Brit. Ent. vi. p. 201 (1829), nee Bilb. Crust. 1820 . fiammea. 



Mdiana, Curt. Brit. Ent. vi. Index (1829) fiammea. 



Keleiicaiiia, yinlLli, Pr. U.S. Nat. Miis. xxv. p. 203 (11)02) nivelcusta. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, fringed with hair in 

 front; frons with rounded prominence with corneous plate below it; eyes 

 large, rounded ; antennte of male ciliated ; head and thorax clothed with hair, 

 with scales below it and without crests; tibise fringed with very long hair ; 

 abdomen witiiout crests. Fore wing with the apex somewhat acute, the terinen 

 ratlier obliquely rounded ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper 

 angle; 9 (Vom 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. 

 Hind wing with veins 3, 4 and 6, 7 shortly stalked ; 5 obsolescent from middle 

 of diseocellulars ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base. 



Sect. I. Antennae of male bipectinate with short branches. 



2010. Meliana pectinata, n. sp. 



Head and thorax white, tinged with violaceous and mixed with 

 some rufous ; tegiiloe with slight dark lines at middle and near 

 tips ; legs with blackish streaks ; abdomen ochreous white, tinged 

 with rufous towards extremity. Fore wing white, tinged with 

 violaceous and usually with rufous and irrorated sparsely with 

 black ; a black streak below base of cell and a slight oblique streak 



Fig. 1C3. — Meliana pectinata, ^. \, 



above inner margin before middle; the median nervure and 

 veins of terminal half white defined by fine brown streaks, 

 the interspaces of terminal area also streaked with brown, the 

 white streak on median nervure forming a hook on diseocellulars, 

 a black fascia above terminal part of median nervure, continued as 



