. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 583 2021. Meliana uniformis. (Plate XCV. fig. 23.) Leucania uniformis, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 339 ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 280. $ . Head and thorax whitish tinged with pale pinkish brown; palpi and legs tinged with brown ; abdomen whitish, dorsally tinged with brown. Fore wing pale brownish suffused with pink, leaving paler streaks below the cell, in end of cell, and as an oblique series of streaks from beyond end of cell to apex; the veins white defined by fine very slight brown streaks, the interspaces of terminal hal
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 583 2021. Meliana uniformis. (Plate XCV. fig. 23.) Leucania uniformis, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 339 ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 280. $ . Head and thorax whitish tinged with pale pinkish brown; palpi and legs tinged with brown ; abdomen whitish, dorsally tinged with brown. Fore wing pale brownish suffused with pink, leaving paler streaks below the cell, in end of cell, and as an oblique series of streaks from beyond end of cell to apex; the veins white defined by fine very slight brown streaks, the interspaces of terminal half also streaked with brown ; a slight black streak below base of cell; the antemedial line represented by a black point in submedian fold; a black point in lower angle of cell; a postmedial series of black points, bent outwards below costa and oblique below vein 4 ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing white, the veins and termen tinged with ochreous, some black points on termen from apex to vein 2. Hah. Himalayas, 1 5 type, Dharmsala {Hoding), 1 J ⢠Exp. 34 millim. 2022. Meliana albilinea. Noctua albilinea, Hiibn. Samuil. Ex. Scbmetfc. ii. p. 25, ff. 337, 338 (1827); Eiley, 9ih Eep. Ins. Mo. p. 50, ff. 14, 15; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. ]86. Lcacania diffusa, Wlk. is. 94 (1856). Leucania moderata, Wlk. ix. 114 (185(5)."â Leucania harveyi, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. i. p. 9, pi. 1. f. 14 (1873). Leucania chilensis, Biitl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1882, p. 115. Leucania obscurior. Smith, Pr. Nat. Mus. xxv. p. 185 (1902); Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 1H2. Leucania tetera. Smith, Pr. Nat. Mus. xxv. p. 187 (1902); Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 1()2. Leucania neptis. Smith, Pr. Nat. Mus. xxv. p. 188 (1902); Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 162. Head and thorax brownish ochreous; antennae with the shaft. Fig. 166.âMeliana albilinea, (^. \. white ; tegulce white except the tips which are brown, and with a brown line near base often present; abdomen brownish
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