MOMMA, 415 



1740. Monima castaneipennis. (Plate XC. fig. 13.) 



Semiophora ca&taneipemiis, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 206 (1894). 



S . Head and thorax bright rufous, the hair slightly tipped with 

 grey ; sides of palpi and frons rather darker ; tibiae with dark 

 brown bands ; abdomen red-brown, the anal tuft and ventral 

 surface bright rufous. Fore wing bright rufous striated with 

 fuscous ; subbasal line fuscous, slightly waved, from costa to sub- 

 median fold; antemedial line indistinct, waved, oblique from costa 

 to median ncrvure, defined by fuscous on inner side ; orbicular and 

 reniform moderate, irrorated with fuscous and with pale annuli, 

 the former oblique elliptical, the latter ill-defined on outer side, 

 the cell before and between them deep chestnut ; an oblique shade 

 of fuscous striation from cell to inner margin ; postmedial line 

 indistinct, grey, waved, with fuscous striation between it and sub- 

 terminal line, to which it is closely approximated, excurved from 

 costa to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line defined by dark 

 red-brown marks on inner side, slightly excurved at vein 6 ; a 

 terminal series of slight dark points. Hind wing greyish sufli'used 

 with brown and with a reddish tinge, the cilia pale rufous ; the 

 underside whitish irrorated with red-brown ; a discoidal point and 

 sinuous postmedial line. 



Hab. Kashmie, Narkundah {McArthur), 1 J type. Exp. 42 

 millim. 



1741. Monima ferrosticta. (Plate XC. fig. 14.) 



Semiophora ferrosticta, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 205 (1894). 



S . Head and thorax grey-white, slightly mixed with pale 

 brown and dorsally tinged with ochreous ; palpi at sides, a bar 

 across frons, and guloe dark brown ; fore legs dark brown on inner 

 side ; abdomen fulvous brown, the base and ventral surface grey, 

 the genital tufts white. Fore wing pale grey sparsely irrorated 

 with brown ; subbasal line represented by a dark point in cell ; 

 antemedial line indistinct, oblique from costa to submedian fold, 

 then slightly angled inwards on vein 1 ; orbicular represented by a 

 slightly curved, elongate, reddish-brown mark with yellowish 

 edges ; reniform large, indistinctly defined by yellowish and with 

 a curved brown mark below it ; a diftused medial fuscous 

 shade angled at median nervure ; postmedial line indistinct, 

 dentate, with more ])rominent points at the veins, bent outwards 

 below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; subterminal 

 line represented by a series of small dark brown and fulvous 

 spots, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, 

 the area beyond it tinged with fuscous ; a terminal series of 

 dark points. Hind wing grey tinged with brown; the cilia 

 whitish ; the underside whitish sparsely irrorated with brown, a dark 



