O^a NOCTIID-Iu 



2032. Meliana citrouella. (Plate XCV. fig. 31.) 



yitencania citronella, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxv. p. 20G (1902) ; D>ar, 

 Ciit. Lej). ^■. Am. p. 104. 



$. Head ;ind thorax pale ochreous ; antennae white ; abdomen 

 ochreous, dorsally tinged with brown and ventrally irrorated with 

 brown. Fore wing pale ochreous ; the costal edge white ; a 

 sliglitly darker streak in and beyond lower part of cell : an 

 oblicjuely-curved postmedial series of black points on veins 6-1 ; 

 cilia white. Hind wing whitish uniformly sufiused with fuscous 

 brown, the cilia white. Underside of fore wing ochreous, the sub- 

 costal and median nervures and veins beyond the cell suffused with 

 brown to near terraen ; hind wing white sparsely irrorated with 

 brown, a postmedial series of brown streaks on the veins. 



Hah. U.S.A., Colorado, Glonwood Springs, 2 5 , Denver, in Coll. 

 J. B. Smith, Exp. 32 millim. 



2033. Meliana rubra, n. sp. (Plate XCV. fig. 32.) 



Head and thorax pale brown-pink : abdomen pale ochreous. 

 Pore wing pale brown-pink, sparsely irrorated with black and with 

 somewhat paler streaks in submediau and discal folds, the latter 

 bent upwards to apex ; costal edge whitish ; a subbasal black point 

 in cell and antemedial black points on median nervure and vein 1 ; 

 an ill-defined blackish spot at lower angle of cell ; a postmedial 

 series of black points excurved from costa to vein 4, then incurved ; 

 a terminal series of black points. ' Hind wing semihyaline white, 

 the veins and margins tinged with ochreous ; the underside with 

 the costal area slightly irrorated with dark brown, some terminal 

 black points from costa to vein 2. 



Hah. Brazil, Petropolis (Doer), 1 S fype, B,io Janeiro, 1 d" , 1 $ . 

 E.viy. 30 millim. 



*2034. Meliana prgegracilis. 



Heliophila praqracilis, Grote. Bull. U.S. Geol. & Geog. Surv. Terr. iii. 

 p. 119 (1S77); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 185. 



Slender ; head and tliorax yellowish : abdomen white. Fore 

 wing yellow-white, without markings. Hind wing white. 



Hab. U.S.A., Idaho, ? Colorado, ? jSew Mexico. Exp. 30 millim. 

 This species is unknown to me. 



Genus ZOSTEROPODA. 



Type. 



Zosieropoda, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 67 (1874) hirtipes. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi with the 2nd joint oblique, fringed with 

 long hair in front, the 3rd joint porrect, ratiier long ; frons smooth ; eyes 

 large, rounded ; antenna: of male ciliated ; head and thorax clothed with 



