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TUEACINA; MELICLEPTBIA; TIMORA. By W. Warren. 



markings redbrown, forming segmental bands, -well-defined below, toothed and "with a pale point at the 

 spiracles; dorsal line distinct; sublateral lines brownish; feeds on Phlomis. 

 venosa. AE. venosa Christ. (51 a). Fore-wing pale ochreous yellow; the veins finely brownish; an oblique 



dark bar on discocellular; hindwing yellowish white, the veins brownish. Armenia and W. Turkestan. 



ceralopyga. 



6. Genus: Turaciiia Pilng. 



Tongue slender; palpi slender, short, obliquely upturned; frons with a large disc-shaped prominence 

 with raised rim and roughened centre; antennae of $ ciliated; head, thorax, and abdomen, smooth-scaled, 

 without crests; fore tibiae with 3 strong claws, one at extremity, and two close together well before 

 extremity; mid tibiae strongly spined;hind tibise with one spine near extremity; forewing long and narrow; 

 the apex produced upwards and the termen obliquely curved. — Type T. ceratopijga Pilng. 



T. ceratopyga Pilng. Forewing pale grey; subbasal and inner ..lines marked by -slight costal spots.,- 

 the latter also by one on inner margin;, outer line not dentate, widely outcurved above, and incurved 

 below middle; subterminal line indicated by a shade preceding it; terminal line distinct; upper stigmata 

 blue grey; -the orbicular very small, the reniform large; claviform small, with black outline; hindwing 

 ashy grey, with the dark markings of -the underside showing through. Becorded from Merv, W. Turkestan.' 



7. Genus: Melicleptria Hbn. 



Differs from Chloridea Westw. in the foretibiae being short and broad, without lateral spines, their 

 apex with one long claw on outer side and slight short claw on inner; the frontal projection with a corne- 

 ous plate below it. Like those of Chloridea the larvae have the habit .of feeding on the flowers and seeds of 

 their food plants. Type M. scutosa Schiff. 



scutosa. M. scutosa Schiff. (= nuchalis Grote) (50 m). Forewing dull whitish, the marginal areas speckled 



olive-brown; stigmata all large and conspicuous, brown with black outlines; a brown band between the 

 dark outer and white subterminal lines; hindwing white, the veins brown; a broad dark marginal border, 

 with two pale spots between 2 and 4, preceded b}' a simrous outer line; a large black discoidal lunule. 

 Found in central and southern Europe, rare in Britain; in Algiers, Armenia, Kashmir, China, and C'orea. — 

 Larva dark green, the sides and venter yellow; lines yellow, the subdorsal freckled with black; head yellow 

 with black spots; feeding on flowers and seeds of Artemisia (?More rarely on Chenopodium). 



scutatus. M. scutatus Stgr. (50 m). Forewing white, the base and bands on each side of subterminal line 



fuscous ; inner and outer lines double, strongly curved ; orbicular stigma obscure, annular with a dark 

 centre; reniform large, fuscous, in a pale dark-edged ring beneath a brown costal patch; hindwing white, 

 the base, discoidal lunule, and marginal border fuscous, the last with a pale patch between veins 2 and 4 ; 

 fringe white. — Uliassatai. Mongolia. 



The species differs from scutosa, the type of the genus, in the fore-tibia having an additional 

 claw at apex on each side. 



8. Genus: Timora Walk. 



Agrees with Melicleptria structurally; the fore tibia short and broad, its apex with one long curved 

 claw on inner and a short one on outer side; the mid and hind tibiae spined; but the species are of more 

 slender build, with the abdomen smoothly scaled; the forewing is longer and narrower, without the usual 

 transverse lines and stigmata, ochreous or yellow in colour, with longitudinal streaks. Type T. senega- 

 lensis Walk, from Africa.. 



A genus of. small insects, chiefly African and Indian. 



decorala. T. decorata Moore (51 a). Forewing pale straw colour, with pink streaks from base along each fold; 



inner line marked only by white vein-points; an oblique pink band from apex to vein 1, marked by 

 white vein-points; fringe pink; .hindwing strawcolour, sometimes . with -traces of an outer pink. band. — 

 Kashmir; occurs also in India and Burma. . 



arlaxoides. T. artaxoides Moore (51a). Forewing uniform ochreous, at times tinged with pale brown; irindw-ing 



more or less fuscous-tinged.; fringe bright ochreous. — An Indian insect, but occurring also in Kashmir. "■ 



striata. T. striata Stgr-. (= albida Hrnps.) (51a). Forewing pale yellowish brown, whitish along costa; two 



pure white streaks, one along the cell fold from middle of cell to termen, the other along submedian fold : 

 short subterminal white streaks between the veins; hindwing white, the veins and termen yellowish-brown. 

 Algeria, 



