MT.ROLEUCA. 



681 



white, the terminal area faintly tinged with brown ; the underside 

 white with the costal and inner areas slightly tinged with 

 oehreous. 



Hah. Egypt, Alexandria, 1 S , Cairo (Graves), 1 $ . Eorp. 24 

 millim. Type t J in Coll. Bethune-Baker. 



Genus MEROLEUCA, nov. 



Type, M. microglossa. 



Proboscis aborted, minute ; palpi porrect. extending about the length of 

 bead and moderately fringed with scales below, the 3rd joint short; frons 

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

 round ; antemias of male ciliated ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales 

 and without crests ; build slender ; tibiiE smoothly scaled ; abdomen without 

 crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not 

 crenulate ; 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. Hind wing with 

 veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 

 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



3585. Meroleuca microglossa. 



PoRcilia microglossa, Rmbr. Lep. S. And. pi. 7. ff. 1, 2 & pi. 22. ff. 1, 2 

 (1858) ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 165. 



cT . Head and thorax whitish tinged with pale nifoiis ; palpi 

 with black-brown patches on 2nd and 3rd joints ; tarsi blackish 

 ringed with white ; abdomen brownish white. Fore wing whitish 

 suitused with pale red-brown, the ante- and postmedial areas except 

 towards costa and torniis whiter ; subbasal line black, waved, from 

 costa to vein 1 ; autemedial line black, minutely waved, oblique ; 

 claviform, orbicular, and reniform blackish with some grey scales 

 and detined by black, the first moderate, the second irregularly 

 rounded, the last somewhat constricted at middle and angled 

 inwards on median nervure ; an oblique fuscous shade from 

 middle of costa and incurved minutely waved line from cell to 



Fig. 180. — Meroleuca microglossa, S . ]. 



inner margin ; postmedial line black, oblique towards costa, 

 then forming the outer edge of reniform, then incurved and 

 slightly excurved at vein 1 ; subterminal line only defined by the 

 brown suff'usion on its inner side and with brown patch before it 

 on costa with two white points on it, excurved below vein 7 and 

 at middle and angled inwards at discal and submedian folds ; a 



