. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. 570 xocTi' sightly irrorated with fiisroua: a curved postmedial series of black points and a terminal sories; cilia yellowish white, with a ditFused fuscous line thr()up:h tlioin. Kind wing yellowish white, the veins atid terminal area tin<2;cd with brown; the underside with post- medial series of fnseous points on the veins and terminal series. 2 . Slightly pah^r. Ifab. Algekia, Hammam-es-Salahin (Walslnyham), 4 S, 2 $, type. Exp. 38-44 raillim. Larva feeds in Anmdo p^iragitntes with that of Sesamia non- ai
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. 570 xocTi' sightly irrorated with fiisroua: a curved postmedial series of black points and a terminal sories; cilia yellowish white, with a ditFused fuscous line thr()up:h tlioin. Kind wing yellowish white, the veins atid terminal area tin<2;cd with brown; the underside with post- medial series of fnseous points on the veins and terminal series. 2 . Slightly pah^r. Ifab. Algekia, Hammam-es-Salahin (Walslnyham), 4 S, 2 $, type. Exp. 38-44 raillim. Larva feeds in Anmdo p^iragitntes with that of Sesamia non- ai/rioides, the perfect insects, being almost identical in appearance. MELIANA. Type. Mclia, Curt. Brit. Ent. vi. p. 201 (1829), nee Bilb. Crust. 1S20 . flammea. Meliana, Curt. Brit. Ent. vi. Index (1829) flammea. Neleucania, Smith, Pr. Nat. Mus. xxv. p. 203 (1902) niveicosta. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, fringed witb hair in front; Irons with rounded prominence with corneous plate below it; eyes large, rounded ; antennie of male ciliated; head and thorax clothed with hair, with scales below it and without crests; tibiic fringed with very long hair; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the apex somewhat acute, the termen rather obliquely rouuded ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 and 6, 7 shortly stalked ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base. Sect. I. Antennit of male bipectinate with short branches. 2010, Meliana pectinata, n. sp. Head and thorax white, tinged with violaceous and mixed with some rufous ; tegiilce with slight dark lines at middle and near tips ; legs with blackish streaks ; abdomen ochreous white, tinged with rufous towards extremity. Fore wing white, tinged with violaceous and usually with rufous and irrorated sparsely with black ; a black streak below base of cell and
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