116 CATALOGUE OF 



1. Sesamia NONAGKIOIDES. 



Testacea ; alee anticce striga discali margineque exieriore obscurio* 

 ribus ; gutta discali punctisque exterioribus nigris ; posticce 

 albce. 



Cossus nonagrioides, Lefebv. Ann. Soc. Linn. vi. 98, pi. 5. 

 Nonagria hesperica, Ramb. Faun. Andal. Guen. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 



vi. 237. Boisd. Ind. Meth. 134, 1084. Dup. Hist. Nat. Up. 



Fr. Suppl. iii. 470, pi. 41, f. 2. 

 Leucania Hesperica, Herr.-Scheeff. Schmett. Eur. ii. 237, 168 : ii. 



Noct. pi. 67, f. 344, 345. 

 Sesamia nonagrioides, Guen. Noct. i. 96, 151. 



South France. Andalusia. Sicily. 



Genus 6. MELIANA. 



Corpus gracile. Proboscis brevis. Palpi graciles, ascendentes ; 

 articulus 3us conicus, minimus. Antenna? simplices, graciles, cor- 

 poris dimidio longiores. Abdomen alas posticas superans. Pedes 

 graciles, longiusculi ; tibiae posticae calcaribus quatuor mediocriter 

 longis. Ala? longiusculae, sat angustae ; anticae lanceolatae, acumi- 

 nata?, apud costam subconvexae, margin e exteriore perobliquo. 



Meliana, Curt. Brit. Ent. 201. Guen. Noct. i. 96. 

 Senta, p., Steph. III. Brit. Ent. Haust. iv. 

 Chilodes, Herr.-Scharff. 

 Symira, Treits. 



Body slender. Proboscis short. Palpi slender, ascending; 

 third joint conical, very minute. Antennae simple, slender, more 

 than half the length of the body. Abdomen extending somewhat 

 beyond the hind wings. Legs slender, rather long; hind tibiae 

 with four moderately long spurs. Wings rather long and narrow. 

 Fore wings lanceolate, slightly convex in front, acuminated at the 

 tips, very oblique along the exterior border; fourth inferior vein 

 remote from the others, which are approximate. 



1. Meliana flammea. 



Alee antica acutee, rufescente fusca, vitta obscure fusca lineaque 

 transversa exteriore e punctis nigris. 



Melia flammea, Curt. Brit. Ent. v. pi. 201. 

 Meliana sericea, Guen. Noct. 97, 152. 



