582 NocruiDas. 



interspaces also streaked with brown; a terminal series of black 

 ])oints ; cilia clR'(iuore(l white and brown. Hind wing white, the 

 terminal area suffused with fuscous ; the underside with the costal 

 and torminiil areas irrorated and suffused with fuscous, a terminal 

 scries of black points. 



Hah. Br, E. Africa, Machakos (Crawshcnj), 4 c? , 1 ? , type, Eb 

 Urru (Betton), 2 d; Uganda, Mulema (Docjf/eit), 1 $; Natal, Kar- 

 kloof {Marshall), 1 d ; Capk Colony, Transkoi (Miss F. Barrett), 

 1 2 • ^'-'P- 24-30 millim. 



2019. Meliana scotti. (Plate XCV. fig. 22.) 

 Leucania scottii, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1886, p. 391. 



2 . Head and thorax white mixed with pale reddish brown ; 

 abdomen white. Fore wins; ochreous white tinged with brown- 

 pink ; the veins white, defined hy fine brown-pink streaks, the 

 median nervure and vein 4 more prominently white ; the inter- 

 spaces of terminal half with browni-pink streaks ; a brown shade 

 below median nervure and slight black streak in base of submedian 

 fold ; a rather oblique fuscous streak from lower angle of cell to 

 termen above vein 5 ; black points above median nervure at origin of 

 vein 2 and in lower angle of cell ; a terminal series of black points. 

 Hind wing white, the terminal area tinged with brown from apex 

 to vein 2 ; the underside with the costal area slightly irrorated with 

 brown, some black points on termen from apex to vein 2. 



Ilah. Queensland, Eockhampton, 1 5 type. Exp. 28 millim. 



2020. Meliana curvilinea. 



Leucania curvilinea, Hmpsn. 111. Het. B. M. viii. p. 67, pi. 144. f. 3 (1891) ; 

 id. Moths Ind. ii. p. 279. 



Head and thorax grey strongly suffused with purplish red ; tegula> 

 w'ith two dark lines ; abdomen violaceous white, the ventral surface 

 irrorated with black. Fore wing violaceous white irrorated with 

 black ; the veins white defined by fine brown streaks ; a dark streak 

 in the cell in discal fold and the interspaces of terminal area 

 streaked with black ; a slight blackish streak below base of cell 

 and an oblique streak above inner margin before middle; a black 

 point in lower angle of cell ; a postmedial series of points bent 

 outwards below costa and oblique below vein 4; a more or less 

 distinct oblique pale fascia from apex defined below by a triangular 

 brownish shade from termen below apex ; a terminal series of 

 black points. Hind wing white more or less tinged with brown ; 

 the underside ochreous wliite, tlie costal area slightly tinged with 

 violaceous. 



Hah. Madras, Nilgiris (Hampson), 1 c? , 4 $ , type, Palnis 

 (Campbell), 1 c? ; Ceylon, (Jampola (MacJcirood), 1 $, Maskelyia 

 (Pole), 1 2 ; Perak, Coping (Kunstler), 1 c?; Hain^an, Five-Fingered 

 Mts. ( Whitehead), 1 S • Eip- 32-34 millim. 



