432 NocTurD.^5. 



Larva. Meyr. Erit. Lep. p. 73 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. v. p. 221, pi. 213. 



Dull green or pinkish brown.; dorsal and subdorsal lines paler ; 

 spiracular line pale greenish, rarely pinkish, edged above by dark 

 grey or black ; head pale brown or greenish. Food-plants : Salix, 

 Carduus, LysimacJiia, etc. 5-7. 



1769. Monima cinnamomea. 



Megascma cinnamomea, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 352, pi. 38. f. 6; 

 ilmpsn. Moths Iiid. ii. p. 277. 



2 . Head and thorax pale rufous ; palpi at tips and shaft of 

 antennas above white ; tegulre with bright rufous line before tips 

 w^hich are white ; abdomen brown. Fore wing whitish tinged 

 with rufous and irrorated with brown ; subbasal line rufous, defined 

 by white on outer side, straight from costa to submediau fold ; 

 antemedial line defined by white on inner side, straight, oblique ; 

 orbicular large, with slight white annulus defined by rufous, 

 oblique elliptical : reniform quadrate, defined at sides by white 

 and rufous ; an indistinct dark medial line ; postmedial line rufous, 

 defined by white on outer side, straight, oblicjue ; subterminal line 

 defined by white on inner side, straight, oblique, the area beyond 

 it somewhat darker ; a terminal series of dark points. Hind wing 

 pale fuscous tinged with pinkish and irrorated with brown, the 

 termen and cilia pale rufous ; the underside with discoidal lunule 

 and curved postmedial line. 



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Genus PALPONIMA, nov. 



Type, P. ortJiosioidcs. 



Probo-scis fully developed ; palpi obliquely porrect, the 2nd joint extending 

 about the length of head and fringed with long hair below, the 3rd joint long 

 and dilated at extremity ; frons with roughened truncate conical prominence ; 

 eyes large, rounded ; antennas of male bipectinate, with long branches to apex, 

 of female ciliated ; head and thorax clothed with hair only, tlie latter witii 

 triangular ridge-like dorsal crest ; tibire moderately hairy ; abdomen with 

 dorsal crest on 1st segment only. Fore wing narrow, the apex rectangular, 

 the ternien nearly straight to vein 3, then oblique ; veins 3 and 5 (roni 

 near angle of cell ; fi from upper angle ; 9 from 10, anastomosing with 8 to 

 form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 

 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anasto- 

 mosing with the cell near base only. 



1770. Palponima orthosioides. 



Scmiophora orthosioides, Butl. 111. Het. B. M. vii. p. 56, pi. 128. f. 1 (1889) ; 

 Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 205. 



Head and thorax dark browm mixed with grey ; palpi whitish at 

 tips ; tegulse with black line just before the tips, which are whitish ; 

 abdomen ochreous grey with some dark irroration. Fore wing 

 pale grey-brown to dark grey-brown with fuscous irroration ; 

 subbasal line double, waved, from costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line 



