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MELICLEPTRIA; NEOLLEPTRIA. By W. Warren. 
yellowish ochreous, the lines and markings grey and fairly distinct, especially the reniform stigma and the dark 
fuscous band between outer and subterminal lines, but this band is often absent; orbicular stigma annular, 
with a dark centre; hindwing with an irregular diffuse blackish border, becoming paler along margin. A species 
of wide distribution, occurring at Ivulu, Sultanpur, and Allahabad in the N. W. Himalayas and in Bhutan, 
N. India; Bombay, S. India; Ceylon; Burma; Formosa; Java; Queensland, N. Australia; Samoa; and Tahiti; 
otherwhere only found in the extreme east of the palaearctic region, — Japan and China, — and in W. Africa. 
Larva pale greyish green, the dorsal area browner; lateral stripe broadly yellow on the hinder part; four pro¬ 
minent small black spots on the side of each segment; head reddish; feeding on Physalis peruviana, and 
probably other plants. 
obsoleta. C. obsoleta F. (= armigera Hbn., pulverosa Walk., uniformis Wlngrn., punctigera Wlngrn., 
umbrosus Grote, insularis Walk.) (Vol. 3, pi. 50 k). Forewing greyish ochreous, sometimes flushed with 
rufous; the lines and markings indistinct; the dark grey reniform stigma and a grey band beyond outer line 
generally plainer; the orbicular stigma annular, with a dark centre; hindwing ochreous with a broad blackish 
margin, the discocellular and veins dark. Larva brownish red; dorsal line fine, greyish green, with some in¬ 
terrupted grey green subdorsal marks; spiracles black in a yellowish lateral stripe, with the centre reddish; 
the red tints sometimes replaced by green; feeding on flowers of many plants. A cosmopolitan species, found 
throughout India, in Ceylon, Perak, and Singapore, in Java, Australia, Tasmania, N. Zealand, Hawaii and the 
rubrescens. Gilbert Islands; the subsp. rubrescens Walk. (27 h) is a form from Australia, with the fore wing, like the head and 
thorax, suffused with reddish in the $ with all markings indistinct; while the $ is olive grey with all the 
signata. lines and the veins rufous, conciselym arked; the subsp. signata (= ab. 1 , Hmps.) from Hawaii, has the fore- 
conferta. wing marked with a prominent angled dark brown median band diffused externally; the form conferta 
Walk. (27 i) from New Zealand has the forewing suffused with olive fuscous. 
caesia. C. caesia spec. nov. (27i). $ Forewing lilac grey tinged with olive; the lines rufous; the inner outwardly 
oblique, thrice outcurved between veins, dentate inwards on them, with a small rufous claviform stigma attached 
to it; the orbicular and reniform stigmata with rufous outline, their centres black and red; the rufous median 
shade passing between them; outer line deeply lunulate dentate, rufous with the teeth dark; a subterminal 
row of dark marks; terminal dots precise, black; fringe pink with a grey line before the tips; hindwing yellow¬ 
ish straw colour, with broad black border narrowing off at each end; fringe straw colour with reddish spots; 
underside of both wings straw colour; reniform black; outer line rufous, followed by a broad black subter¬ 
minal band from fold to fold; head and thorax lilac grey; abdomen deep yellow. 1 $ from Brisbane district, 
Queensland. 
rufa. C. rufa spec. nov. (27 i). $ Forewing blurred brickred, with cloudy black scaling towards base and along 
inner margin; all the markings dull; orbicular and reniform stigmata small, black; outer line double, followed 
by a cloudy dark shade; hindwing pale straw, with black terminal border and the fringe rufous; underside of 
both wings yellow, becoming rufous towards apex; a subterminal reddish band marked with black from fold to 
fold; reniform stigma black; head and thorax rufous; abdomen yellower. 1 $ from the Angabunga River, 
British New Guinea. 
2. Genus: Meltcleptria Hbn. 
Differs from Chloridea Westiv. 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 corneous 
plate below it. Like those of the genus Chloridea , the larvae have the habit of feeding on the flowers and seeds 
of their foodplants. Type M. scutosa Schiff. 
scutosa. M. scutosa Schiff. (= nuchalis Grote) (Vol. 3, pi. 50 m). Forewing dull whitish, the marginal areas 
speckled olive brown; stigmata all large and conspicuous, brown with black outlines; hindwing white, the veins 
brown; a broad dark marginal border, with two pale spots between veins 2 and 4, preceded by a sinuous 
outer line; a large black discoidal lunule. Larva green; dorsal and spiracular lines yellow, black-edged; sub¬ 
dorsal line freckled with black; head green; feeding on Artemisia. This palaearctic (and N. American) species 
is recorded from Kulu in the N. W. Himalayas, India. 
3. Genus: Efeocleptria Hmps. 
Tongue developed; frons with rounded prominence with a corneous ridge across it; palpi obliquely 
