MELICLEPIRIA. 101 



Pore wing silky ochreous white, with more or less prominent 

 and extensive dark brown suffusion on inner area below the 

 cell and vein 4. Hind wing white, with a slight ochreous 

 tinge ; the veins and terminal area more or less suffused with, 

 brown. 



Hah. W. Australia, Sherlock R. {Clements), 3 d" , 1 2- Ecep. 

 22-26 niillim. Type t in Mus. Oxon. 



164. Melicleptria moribunda. (Plate LVII. tig. 20.) 



Leucania moribunda, Guen. Noct. i. p. *J5 (1852). 



Leucania invaria, Wlk. ix. Ill (1856). 



Leucania fumata, Lucas, Pr. Liun. Soc. N. S. W. (2) iv. p. 1098 (1889). 



Ochreous, more or less thickly irrorated with fuscous brown ; 

 head and thorax tinged with fuscous. Hind wing suffused with 

 fuscous towards termen. Underside of fore wing with obscure 

 discoidal spot. 



Hob. Queensland, Brisbane {Turner), 1 J , 1 5 ; J^- S. Wales, 

 Sydney {Raynor), 6 c? 5 6 9 > type and type invaria. Exp. 28- 

 30 millim. 



165. Melicleptria aleurota. (Plate LVII. fig. 21.) 

 Canthylidia aleurota, Lower, ined. 



Head and thorax grey-white mixed Avith brown : abdomen 

 white, dorsally tinged with ochreous. Fore wing grey-white, 

 thickly irrorated with brown ; a more or less developed post- 

 medial series of black points on the veins excurved from costa 

 to vein 4, then oblique. Hind wing white suffused with dark 

 brown, especially towards termen ; cilia white. Underside of 

 fore wing with the disk suffused with brown and with dark 

 discoidal spot; hind wing white, slightly irrorated with brown. 



Hah. W. Australia, Sherlock E. {Clements), 2 cT , 2 $ , Derby, 

 1 (5 . E.ip. 26 millim. Type f in Coll. Lower. 



166. Melicleptria aherrans. (Plate LVII. fig. 22.) 

 Heliotkis aherrans, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1886, p. 405. 



S . Head and thorax dull brown ; abdomen whitish brown. 

 Fore wing pale dull brown ; slight antemedial dark points on 

 median nervure and vein 1, with traces of a diffused oblique 

 band beyond them ; a postmedial series of small almost dentate 

 black spots curved from costa to vein 4, then oblique ; traces of a 

 rather paler streak from middle of cell to termen and of some 

 subterminal spots ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing 

 pale brown ; the terminal area suffused with dark brown, leaving 

 a pale subterminal mark above and below vein 3. 



Hah. QuEEiNSLAND, Peak Downs, 1 cJ type. Exp. 28 millim. 



