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2012. Meliana flammea. 



^f,na Jlammea. Curt. Brit. Knt. vi. pi. 201 (1828) ; Steph. 111. Brit. Eat., 



llaust. iv. p. 'J07: Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 189. 

 Sifmira dithio.^a, Treit. Sclimett. Eur. x. 2, p. 8G (1835). 

 I\'ona(jria aruvdinicola, Donbl. List Brit. Lep. p. 7 (18n0). 

 Meliana steiioptsra, Stand. Eom. Mem. vi. p. 474 (1892). 



Head ai]d thorax whitish tinged with purplish ; palpi and legs 

 ochreous ; abdomen ochreous white slightly irrorated with fuscous. 

 Fore wing flesh-colour, the costal and inner areas irrorated with 

 fuscous, a red-brown shade from middle of cell to submedian fold, 

 met beyond lower augle of cell by a wedge-shaped shade from 

 tcrnien below apex : the discal and submedinn folds tinged with 

 ochreous ; the veins white defined by fine brown streaks, the inter- 

 spaces of terminal area also streaked with brown ; a postmedial 



Fig. 105. — Meliana flaynmea, c?. }. 



series of black points nearly erect from costa to vein 4, then very 

 oblique, often almost obsolete ; a terminal series of black points. 

 Hind wing white, more or less completely tinged with pale reddish 

 brown ; the underside white irrorated with brown, a terminal 

 series of black points. 



Ab. 1. stenojitera. Smaller; fore wing narrower, the medial fascia 

 more distinct. — Amurland. 



Hob. Britaix, Leech Coll. ; Feaxce ; 

 GEEMAsr, Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls. 

 Amurlaxd, Ussuri. Exp. 32-40 millim. 



Larva. Barrett, Lep. Brit. v. p. 129, pi. 200. f. 



Eatlier light brown ; dorsal line pale, dark-edged; subdorsal line, 

 a triple lateral line, and the subspiracular line pale, the last greyi.sh 

 ochreous ; head with dark reticulations. Food-plant, Phragmites. 

 8-9. The larva hides by day in the old reed-stems. 



Holland : 



; Atjsxkia 



Den^mark : 

 Hungary ; 



Mejr. Brit. Lep. p. 6(i. 



2013. Meliana longipennis, n. sp. (Plate XCV. fig. 18.) 



2 . Head and thorax pale reddish brown ; abdomen whitish, 

 dorsally suffused with fuscous, ventraDy tinged with rufous. Fore 

 wing ochreous brown, tinged with rufotis except towards costa, and 

 irrorated with fuscous, especially on inner and terminal areas ; the 

 veins with fine pale streaks and on terminal half defined by fine 

 brown streaks, the interspaces also streaked with brown ; some 

 slight points on termen. Hind Aving white, the terminal area 

 sullused with reddish brown from apex to vein 2 ; the underside 



