LEUCANIA. — AXTLIA. 91 



brown, irrorated with fuscous; a fuscous streak alonj; median nervine; taint traecs of waved 

 medial, postmedial, and submarginal lines ; a blaekish spot at middle of cell and speck at 

 lower angle; reniform pale rufous; a series of marginal specks. Iliud wiiif^ wliitish; tiie 

 veins and inner and outer marginal areas suffused with fuscous. 



Meliana liamulifera. (Plate CLXI. fig. 5.) 

 Expanse (J ? IJ inch. 



Male. Fore wing pale grey-brown, suffused and powdered with black; a white hook- 

 shaped mark on the median nervure at the end of the cell ; two indistinct postmedial scries 

 of black specks ; a somewhat indistinct white streak from the apex ; a promincut marginal 

 series of black specks. Hind wing pale fuscous. Underside fuscous; the hind wing with a 

 black cell-spot and dark postmedial curved line ; both wings with a series of marginal luuules. 

 Female paler and more rufous in tint ; the markings of the fore wiug less distinct, 

 especially the marginal series of specks. 



PHYCIDOPSIS, g. u. 



AntenuEe bipeetinated, with long branches in the male, with long ciliations in the female. 

 Palpi upturned ; the third joint short. Wings long. Fore wing rather narrow ; the venation 

 of the normal iVoc^«<irf character, except that the upper radial is given off halfway up the 

 accessory cell ; the lower radial from opposite the middle of the cell ; the second median 

 nervule from some way before the end of the cell, llind wing ample; the outer margin 

 slightly excavated below the apex ; costal nervure anastomosing with the subcostal to near 

 the middle of the cell ; the two subcostals on a short footstalk ; the radial from the middle 

 of the cell ; two medians from the lower angle of the cell. 



Phycidopsis albovittata. (Plate CLXI. fig. 13.) 



Expanse If inch. 



Male and Female. Head and thorax dark brown, the latter with numerous grey scales. 

 Fore wing dark purplish brown, with a white streak from the base to the apex occupying 

 nearly the whole costal half of the wing, including the whole of the cell, then narrowing to 

 the apex, and leaving a streak of the ground-colour along the costa from above the end of the 

 cell to before the apex ; the basal and lower portions of this white area being irrorated with 

 brown scales. Abdomen and hind wing uniform fuscous. 



Axylia bifascia. (Plate CLXI. fig. 6.) 

 Expanse 1^ inch. 



Male. Fore wing, costa, and inner margin broadly white suffused with reddish brown ; a 

 dark brown streak from the base to the outer margin, widening externally ; a black speck 



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