meliana] 



CARADRINIDAE 



(Phragmites) ; 8, 9. The larva hides itself by day in the old 

 reed-stems. 



13. Lbucania, 0. 



Head rough-scaled ; eyes hairy. Antennae in $ ciliated. 

 Thorax with or without slight anterior crest. Abdomen not 

 crested. 



A very large cosmopolitan genus, equally common every- 

 where ; it is a development of Meltmchra, to which some of the 

 New Zealand species give such a complete transition that a 

 line of demarcation can hardly be drawn. The larvae all feed 

 on Gramineac. 



1. First and second lines dark, entire . . 2. 



„ „ ,, dotted or absent . 4. 



2. Hindwings brassy-whitish . . 7. vitellina. 



,, not whitish . . . .3. 



3. First line sharply angulated below middle G. conigera. 



„ „ not angulated below middle . 1. turca. 



4. Forewings with black median basal dash . 5. 



,, without black basal dash . . 7. 



5. Reniform forming a clear white dot . . (i. 



„ not forming a white dot . 8. comma. 



6. Hindwings wholly white . . 4. Loreyi. 



,, with terinen fuscous . 9. putrescents. 



7. Forewings witli white median streak throughout 



5. liltoralis. 

 ,, without such streak . . 8. 



8. Second line indicated by dots . . .9. 



,, „ wholly absent . .12. impudens. 



9. Second line indicated by a series of dots . 10. 



„ „ ,, by two dots only . . 13. 



10. Forewings with distinct oblique apical fuscous 



dash . . .11. unipuncta. 



„ without such dash . . .11. 



11. Veins whitish, outlined with fuscous . 10. obsolcta. 



„ not outlined with fuscous . . 12. 



12. Reniform curved-linear . . .2. lithargyrea. 



,, dot-like . . .3. albipuncta. 



13. Hindwings with postniedian series of black marks 



13. straminea. 

 „ without such series . . . 14. 



II. Hindwings dark grey . . .14. impura. 



,, white .15. pallens. 



