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ill the interspaces of terminal area ; a terminal series of dark brown 

 points ; cilia white at tips. Hind wing white ; the veins streaked 

 with brown towards termen ; a more or less developed diffused 

 subterminal yellow-brown band ; a brown line at base of cilia 

 sometimes present. 



Hah. W. Australia, Sherlock R. (Clements), 1 c? , -i $ , Rae- 

 bourne, 1 cj" . Ewp. 26-36 millim. Type f in Mus. Oxon. 



*157. Melicleptria mesoleuca, (Plate LVII. fig. 14.) 

 Canthylidia mesoleuca, Lower, ined. 



5 . Head and thorax pale yellow-brown ; palpi below, pectus, 

 legs, and abdomen white. Pore wing silky golden brown, irrorated 

 with white ; a white streak in discal fold from middle of cell to 

 termen, a slight streak above vein 6, and a streak in submedian fold 

 from base to termen, narrowing towards base. Hind wing white 

 irrorated with brown ; the terminal area suffused with brown from 

 apex to vein 2. 



Hah. iS". S. Wales, Broken Hill, type f 5 in Coll. Lower. Exp. 

 28 millim. 



158. Melicleptria neurias. (Plate LVII. fig. 15.) 



HeUothis neurias, Meyr. Trans. Eiit. Soc. 1902, p. 26. 



Head and thorax yellowish brown or grey-brown ; pectus and 

 legs white and brown; abdomen white, dorsally tinged with yellow- 

 brown. Fore Aving pale yellow-brown or grey-brown ; the veins 

 more or less prominently streaked with dark brown; a white fascia 

 through the cell to termen : the interspaces of terminal area some- 

 times streaked with whitish ; a terminal series of dark points. 

 Hind wing white, suffused with brown except on costal area or 

 towards termen only. 



Hah. K. Australia, Cassini I. {J. J. Walher), 1 S ■, Port 

 Darwin, 1 5 , typet $ in Coll. Meyrick; W. Australia, Sherlock E. 

 (Clements), 3 iS , Q 2 . Exp. 26-34 millim. 



159. Melicleptria cramboides. (Plate LVII. fig, 16.) 

 Leucania cramboides, Guen. Noct. i. p. 84 (1852j. 



Rather dark grey-brown. Fore wing with white fascia through 

 the cell to termen. Hind wing slightly paler ; the underside 

 whitish, with the veins and termen tinged with brown. 



Hah. Victoria (Raynor), 2 (5 , 1 $ • Exp. 34-40 millim. 



160. Melicleptria osmida. (Plate LVII. fig. 17.) 



Heliocheilus osmidus, Swinh. A. M. N. H. (7) viii. p. 12i') (1901). 



Head and thorax pale yellow-brown ; pectus and legs white and 

 pale brown ; abdomen white, dorsally tinged with pale yellow- 

 brown. Pore wing pale yellow-brown, with a white fascia through 



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