THE MOTHS OF INDIA 



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Borolia venalba. $ ± 



Leucania hoiora, Moore P. Z. S. 1881, p. 357, pi. 37, f. 16, 



basilinea, Swinh. Trans. Ent. Soc, 1890, p. 220, pi. vii f. 6, 

 Habitat -Fonuosx; Sikhim,- Bengal, Calcutta, Burma, Bhamo ; Java' 

 1001. Bokolia aspersa, Snell. Tijd. v. Ent. 1880, p. 42, pi. 4, f. I, 



Leucania homopterana, Swinh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890 p. 21^ p] viii 

 f. 12. ' _ ' ' ' 



Habitat.— Burma, Rangoon ; Celebes. 

 1930. Borolia venalba, insert (syn.) 



Leucania linearis, Lucas, P. Soc. Queensl. VIII, p. 85 (1894). 

 & del. L. lineatipcs. 

 Habitat.— China ; Sikhim ; Bengal, Barrackpnr ; Ceylon : Singapore 

 Queensland. 



1930.a. Borolia ineana, Snell. Tijd. v. Ent. 1880, p. 43, pi. 4 } f. 2. 

 Head and thorax whitish tinged with pinkish ; abdomen ochreou's white, with 



" sublateral series of black 

 points. Forewing flesh-pink, 

 leaving paler fascise in discal 

 and submedian folds and 

 above vein 6 ; the veins 

 streaked with white and de- 

 fined by fine, slightly darker 

 streaks, the interspaces of 

 terminal area also with slight dark streaks ; a black point in submedian fold 

 below origin of vein 2, a point in lower angle of cell, a curved postmedial series 

 and a terminal series. Hiudwiug semihyaline white, tinged with ochreous 

 towards termen, on which there is a series of dark points. 

 Habitat.— Sikuiu ; Celebes, Exp. 32 mill. 

 1902. Borolia byssina. 

 1925. Borolia fasciata. 



Genus Meliana. 



Type. 

 Melia, Curt. Brit. Ent. VI., p. 200 (1829), nee. Bilb. Crust. 



1820 , flammea. 



Meliana, Curt. Brit. Ent. VI., Index (1892) flammea. 



Neleucania, Smith, Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. XXV., p. 203 (1902). mveicosta. 

 Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, fringed with hair in 

 front ; frons with rounded prominence with corneous plate below it ; eyes large, 

 rounded ; head and thorax clothed with hair, with scales below it and without 

 crests ; tibiee fringed with very long Lair ,• abdomen without crests. Forewing, 

 with the apex somewhat acute, the termen rather obliquely rounded ; veins 3 

 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing 

 with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hindwing with veins 3'4 and 67 

 shortly stalked ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 8 anastomosing 

 with the cell near base, 

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