MECODINOPS. MECODINA. 
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front and slightly fringed with hair behind, the 3rd long and 
fringed with hair behind towards extremity ; frons smooth, 
with pointed tuft of hair above ; eyes large, round ; antennae 
of female ciliated ; thorax clothed with hah and hair -like 
scales and without crests ; tibiae slightly fringed with hair ; 
abdomen with some rough hah at base of dorsum but without 
crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the terinen 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 ; 1 1 from cell, the cell on underside clothed 
with rough hair. Hind wing with the cell about one-third 
length of wing ; vein 3 from just before angle ; 5 fully de- 
veloped from just above angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 
anastomosing with the cell near base only. 
Genus MECODINA. 
type. 
Mecoclina, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 372 (1852) lanceola, Guen. 
Bcethantha, Walk, xxxiii. 982 (1865) bisignata. Walk. 
Seneratia, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. 202 (1885) prsecipua. Walk. 
Mecodina leucosticta, n. sp. 
Head and tegulse rufous, the antennae dark brown, the 
palpi grey-brown ; thorax and abdomen purplish grey-brown, 
the patagia with red-brown bars, the tarsi ringed with whitish 
and the fore tarsi whitish at base. Fore wing pale red-brown, 
the terminal area suffused with purplish grey ; a curved red- 
brown subbasal line from costa to submedian fold with a 
slight whitish mark at costa ; antemedial line double, red- 
brown, waved, obsolescent towards inner margin, a small 
white mark on its inner side at costa ; a minute black spot 
with pale annulus in middle of cell ; reniform obscurely 
defined by dark brown ; a deep red-brown medial shade, 
oblique from below costa and narrowing to inner margin ; 
postmedial line brown, obliquely excurved to vein 4, then 
inwardly oblique and waved, a slight whitish mark on its outer 
side at costa ; an oblique wedge-shaped chocolate-brown 
mark from postmedial part of costa with an oblique bar from 
it to middle of termen, the outer side of the patch defined by 
whitish and with white point at its apex ; subterminal white 
points on veins 3, 2, 1 ; a slightly waved chocolate-brown 
line just before termen. Hind wing purplish grey-brown ; a 
rather diffused oblique brown medial line and a postmedial 
line bent inwards and approximated to the medial line below 
the cell ; subterminal line dark brown, obsolete towards 
costa, then defined on each side by cupreous red-brown 
suffusion, incurved below vein 4, defined on outer side by 
whitish below vein 2 and with oblique brown bar from it to 
