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Sect. II. Antennae of male ciliated. 



A. Forewing with short black streak in end of cell in 



discal fold .., vana. 



B. Forewing without black streak in end of cell in 



discal fold. 

 a. Forewing with the white streak on median nervure 



expanding into a spot at lower angle of cell vittala. 



6. Forewing with the wbite streak on median nervure 

 slender. 

 a\. Forewing with slight dark streak in cell in 



discal fold curvil 



61. Forewing without dark streak in cell in discal 



fold uniformis. 



Meliana vana. 



1897. Meliana vana. 



1896. Meliana vittata. 



1929. Meliana curvilinea. 



1982. Meliana uniformis. Sub-family Acronyetinye. 



1659.a. Amphipyra tragopogonis, Linn. Faun. Suec.,p. 316 (1761), Hubn. 



Eur. Schmett. Noct., p. 40. 

 „ turcojnana, Stett. Ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 32. 



Head and thorax grey-brown sometimes with a reddish tinge, or the head 

 and collar with the scales tipped with white ; abdomen grey-brown. Forewing 

 silky grey-brown sometimes with a reddish tinge or slightly irrorated with 

 white ; a black point in middle of cell and two on discoceilulars. Hindwing 

 ochreous white suffused with brown and sometimes with a reddish tinge ; the 

 underside whiter, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, a small 

 discoidal Iunule. 



Habitat. — Europe ; W. & C. Asia; Kashmir, Scinde Valley ;■ Punjab, 

 Sultanpur. Exp. 42 mill. 



1717.0?. Euplexia fasciata, Leech. Trans. Ent. Soc, 1900, p. 68. 



Head and thorax purplish red-brown, the scales sometimes tipped with 

 grey ; tegulse with black medial line ; tarsi fuscous ringed with ochreous, 

 abdomen reddish-brown tinged with ochreous ai)d greyish, the crests darker. 

 Forewing purplish red-brown, the ante- and postmedial areas suffused 

 with grey-white except towards costa ; subbasal line, double, waved, from 

 costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line double at costa, then waved and angled 

 inwards on the veins ; claviform moderate, defined by black and sometimes 



