MELIANA. 



581 



with medial and terminal black lines ; abdomen ochreous tinged 

 with fuscous except anal tuft. Pore wing ochreous brown thickly 

 irrorated with dark brown; a«. blackish streak below base of cell 

 on a dark brown diffused fascia in and below cell, and thence ex- 

 tending obliquely to termen below apex ; a small pale discoidal 

 spot with some black on each side of it ; a terminal series of 

 blackish points ; a dark line through cilia. Hind wing ochreous 

 irrorated with brown, especially on terminal area ; the veins brown ; 

 the cilia pale. 



Hab. Tristan d'Acunha, 1 S type ; hab. ign. 1 c? type tenebrifera. 

 Exp. 38 millim. 



2017. Meliana vittata. 



Leucania vitiata, Hmpsn. 111. Het. B. M. viii. p. 69, pi. 144. f. 4 (18'Jl); 

 id. Moths Incl. ii. p. 271. 



2 . Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous white with a slight 

 olive tinge ; sides of palpi and Irons blackish ; antennae blackish ; 

 tibifB and tarsi tinged with black. Fore wing ochreous white with 

 a slight olive tinge ; a black streak below basal half of cell ; an 

 oblique black streak above inner margin before middle ; the cell 

 and area just below and beyond it suffused with olive-brown ; 

 a rather dentate white streak on extremity of median nervure, 

 with slight black streaks above, below, and beyond it ; the veins of 

 terminal half whitish defined by slight olive-brown streaks, the inter- 

 spaces of terminal area also streaked with olive-brown ; an oblique 

 pale fascia from apex to vein 2, with slight black streaks beyond it 

 below vein 5, the area beyond it suft'used with olive-brown ; a 

 terminal series of black points ; cilia brown intersected with white. 

 Hind wing ochreous white, the terminal area more or less tinged 

 with fuscous; the underside with the costal and terminal areas 

 tinged and irrorated with brown, some black points on apical half 

 of termen. 



Hab. Madras, Belgaum ( Watson), 2 $ , Xilgiris {Hampson), 2 $ , 

 type ; Tea van core, Pirmad {Mrs. Imray), 1 2 • ^^'^T- »^0-3S 

 miUim. 



2018. Meliana sarca. (Plate XCV. fig. 21.) 



Leucania sarca, Huipsu. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 272 (1902). 



Head and thorax whitish tinged with purplish pink and slightly 

 mixed with fuscous ; palpi fuscous at sides ; abdomen ochreous 

 white, ventrally irrorated with fuscous. Pore wing \vhitish tinged 

 with purplish pink and irrorated with fuscous ; a slight black 

 streak below base of cell ; median nervure with prominent white 

 streak defined above by a black streak in cell and with brownish 

 fasciae above and below it ; a black point in lower angle of cell and 

 a brown streak from lower angle to termen above vein 5 ; a brown 

 fascia from inner margin before middle to termen at vein 2 ; the 

 veins of terminal half white slightly defined by brown streaks, the 



