MELIANA. 



587 



Avich the costal area tinged with pink, a series of black points on 

 termen from apex to vein 2. 



Hah. Mexico, Jalapa {T-mjillo), 1 5, Godman-Salvin Coll.; 

 Cuba; Haiti (Tiveedie), 2 $ ; Suejnam. Exy. 34 millim. 



2030. Meliana niveicosta. (Plate XCV. fig. 29.) 



Neleueania niveicosta, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxv. p. 205 (1902) ; Dyar, 

 Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 163. 



2 . Head and thorax red-brown ; abdomen ochreous, tijiged 

 with rufous and irrorated with black. Fore wing rufous, with 

 a reddish tinge especially in cell and ou inner area, and irrorated 

 with a few black scales on inner area; the costal edge white ; the 

 veins pale defined by slightly darker streaks; a slightly darker 

 streak in and beyond lower part of cell ; an obliquely-curved post- 

 medial series of black streaks on veins 6 to 1 ; a terminal series of 

 slight black points ; cilia somewhat pinker, with a slightly darker 

 line through them. Hind wing pale more or less suffused with 

 fuscous brown, the cilia whitish. Underside whitish thickly irro- 

 rated with large brown scales ; fore wing and costa of hind wing 

 tinged with pink; the cell and veins of terminal half of fore wing 

 suffused with brown. 



6 . Hind wing pinkish, with ridges of ochreous hair below vein 6, 

 on vein 4, in submedian fold, and on vein 1. 



Hah. U.S.A., Colorado, Glenwood Springs, 2 J , 1 $ . Exp.. 

 34 millim. 



2031. Meliana tenebra, n. sp. (Plate XCV. fig. 30.) 



c? . Head and thorax ochreous brown with an olive tinge ; sides 

 of palpi and frons fuscous ; legs greyish, tinged with purplish pink ; 

 abdomen pale ochreous, suffused and irrorated with fuscous. Fore 

 wing greyish ochreous slightly irrorated with fuscous ; the veins 

 streaked w^ith white ; the cell and apical area tinged with rufous ; 

 a rufous fascia below cell, expanding triangularly beyond lower 

 angle to termen ; the median nervure slightly defined by black 

 extending to termen below apex as a curved difi'used streak ; a 

 black and rufous fascia above vein 1 from before middle to termen ; 

 a terminal series of small black spots. Hind wing fuscous brown, 

 with some black striae on termen ; cilia white at tips ; the under- 

 side whitish grey irrorated with fuscous, a discoidal lunule and 

 terminal series of spots. 



5 . Brownish ochreous without the rufous tinge ; the white 

 streaks on the veins obscured by fuscous streaks ; traces of a curved 

 postmedial series of points ; the terminal series of spots absent ; 

 underside of hind wing without discoidal lunule or terminal series 

 of points. 



Hah. Br. E. Africa, Eb Urru, 1 S type, Mile 478, Uganda Ey., 

 1 2 • Exp. 32 millim. 



