M ELIAN A. 



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a fuscous wedge-sbaped mark to termeu, where it expands to below 

 apex, and with some short black streaks from its inner edge, above 

 vein 5 extending almost to cejl ; a short black fascia in terminal 

 part of submedian fold ; a terminal series of black points ; cilia 

 brown intersected with white. Hind wing white, sometimes tinged 

 with ochreous ; a more or less prominent terminal series of black 

 points ; the underside with the costal and terminal areas irrorated 

 with black, a slight discoidal lunule. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the black markings replaced by pale 

 brown or grev. 



Hub, Br. E. Africa, Machakos {Crawshay), 4 J, 2 $ , type, 

 Kikuyu (Cratcshay), 2 c? , Eb Urru (Betton), 7 S, 1 2- Gwelil 

 (Betton), 1 S . Exp. 24-30 millim. 



Sect. II. Antennfe of male ciliated. 



A. Tibiae of male thickly fringed with long hair on both sides. 



2011. Meliana rubripennis. 



Leucania rubripennis, Grote & Rob. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. iii. p. 179, pi. 2. 

 f. 77 (1870) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 186. 



S ■ Head aud thorax red-brown ; tegulae white at base, red- 

 brown at tips ; abdomen ochreous brown. Fore wing ochreous ; a 

 purplish-pink fascia from median nervure and vein 3 to submedian 

 fold from base to termen ; a wedge-shaped patch above vein 4 



Fig. 164. — Meliana rubripennis, J' . \. 



extending on termen to below apex, and with slight ochreous streak 

 on it above middle of vein 4 ; costal area tinged with purplish pink 

 towards apex. Hind wing ochreous. Underside tinged with 

 brown. 



Hah. U.S.A., Texas, 1 S type. Exp. 40 millim. 



B. Tibiae of male fringed with hair on outer side only. 



a. {Meliana). Abdomen long and slender; fore wing pro- 

 duced and acute at apes. 

 a}. Fore wing with the veins of costal area streaked with 



white fiarmnea. 



b^. Fore wing with the veins of costal area not streaked 



with white longipennis. 



VOT.. V. 



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