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approximated. Hind wing with the cell short ; A^eins 4, 5 closely 

 approximated for a short distance ; 6, 7 stalked, 7 anastomosing 

 strongly with 8. 



riff. 129. 



Mecyna gilvata, t^ . 



(From Moths Ind. vol. iv.) 



(1) Mectna limbalis Schiff. Wien. Yerz. p. 122. 

 Pyralis rusticalis Hiibn. Pyr. f. 121. 



Europe. 



rn (2) Mecyna gilvata Fabr. Ent. Syst. p. 290. S. & E. Europe ; 



^^^' Pyralis orientalis Eabr. Ent. Syst. iii. 2, Madeira ; Syria ; 



p. 234. Abyssinia ; Aden ; 



Pyralis polyqonalis Hiibn. Schmett. Eur., Pyr. India ; Ceylon. 



' ff. 617, 204, 205. 

 Pyralis diversalis Hiibn. Schmett. Eur., Pyr. f. 102. 

 Mecyna aversalis Gaen. Delt. & Pyr. p. 409, pi. 4. f. 12. 

 „ teriadalis Guen. Delt. & Pyr. p. 409. 

 t „ depi-ivalis Wlk. xix. 806 ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. 

 pi. 179. ff. 1, 1 a. 



(3) Mecyna reversalis Guen. Delt. & Pyr. p. 409. 



U.S.A. ; W. Indies. 

 (4)tMECYNA PRUNiPENNis Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) iv. p. 454 (1879). 



Japan. 



(5) Mecyna ornithopteralis Guen. Delt. & Pyr. p. 411, pi. 8. 



f. 12. Australia. 



(6) Mecyna maorialis Feld. E-eis. Nov. pi. 134. £. 34. 



N. Zealand. 

 (7)tMECYNA virescens Butl. A. M.N. H. (5) vii. p. 329 (1881). __ 



Hawaii. 

 (8)tMECYNA APiCALis, n. sp. (1898, Plate L. fig. 28.) 



S . Head and thorax ferruginous brown ; abdomen pale brown. 

 Pore wing yellow-brown, suffused with ferruginous red and more or 

 less irrorated and suffused with fuscous ; traces of a pale, highly 

 waved antemedial line, especially on inner area ; some black marks on 

 veins at end of cell and slight patches of hyaline membrane in the 

 discal interspaces, with a pale waved line beyond them, dentate 

 beyond the cell and below vein 2 ; an indistinct minutely waved 

 ochreous postmedial line ; a silvery white bidentate mark below 

 apex, with a fuscous streak below it ; a marginal series of black 

 specks ; cilia fuscous, with a white line at base. Hind wing hyahne 

 yellow, with all the veins streaked with fuscous, and a fuscous 

 marginal band. 



