LEUCANIA. — AXYLIA. 
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brown, irrorated with fuscous ; a fuscous streak along median nervure ; faint traces of waved 
medial, postmedial, and submarginal lines ; a blackish spot at middle of cell and speck at 
lower angle ; reniform pale rufous ; a series of marginal specks. Hind wing whitish ; the 
veins and inner and outer marginal areas suffused with fuscous. 
Meliana hamulifera. (Plate CLXI. fig. 5.) 
Expanse $ 1^ inch. 
Male. Fore wing pale grey-brown, suffused and powdered with black ; a white hook- 
shaped mark on the median nervure at the end of the cell ; two indistinct postmedial series 
of black specks; a somewhat indistinct white streak from the apex; a prominent marginal 
series of black specks. Hind wing pale fuscous. Underside fuscous ; the hind wing with a 
black cell-spot and dark postmedial curved line ; both wings with a series of marginal lunules. 
Female paler and more rufous in tint ; the markings of the fore wing less distinct, 
especially the marginal series of specks. 
PHYCIDOPSIS, g. n. 
Antennae bipectinated, with long branches in the male, with long ciliations in the female. 
Palpi upturned ; the third joint short. "Wings long. Fore wing rather narrow ; the venation 
of the normal Noctuid character, except that the upper radial is given off halfway up the 
accessory cell ; the lower radial from opposite the middle of the cell ; the second median 
nervule from some way before the end of the cell. Hind wing ample ; the outer margin 
slightly, excavated below the apex ; costal nervui'e anastomosing with the subcostal to near 
the middle of the cell ; the two subcostals on a short footstalk ; the radial from the middle 
of the cell ; two medians from the lower angle of the cell. 
Phycidopsis albovittata. (Plate CLXI. fig. 13.) 
Expanse If inch. 
Male and Female. Head and thorax dark brown, the latter with numerous grey scales. 
Fore wing dark purplish brown, with a white streak from the base to the apex occupying 
nearly the whole costal half of the wing, including the whole of the cell, then narrowing to 
the apex, and leaving a streak of the ground-colour along the costa from above the end of the 
cell to before the apex ; the basal and lower portions of this white area being irrorated with 
brown scales. Abdomen and hind wing uniform fuscous. 
Axylia hifascia. (Plate CLXI. fig. 6.) 
Expanse 1^ inch. 
Male. Fore wing, costa, and inner margin broadly white suffused with reddish brown ; a 
dark brown streak from the base to the outer margin, widening externally ; a black speck 
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