242 Mr. A. Ke Witloman on New and Unrecorded Species 
Local distribution. Kytsuv. 
General distribution. Throughout INDIA; CEYLON and 
BURMA ; JAPAN. 
Collection number, 1158. 
bag: 
Ophiusa melicerte. 
Noctua melicerte, Drury, Ill. Exot. Ins. i, p. 46, pl. 
xxiii, fig. 1 (1770); Moore, Lep. Ceyl., ui, pl. clxviii, 
figs. 2, 2a, 2b (larva); Hampson, Fauna Brit. India, 
Moths, u, p. 494. 
Noctua tigrina, Fabr., Spec. Ins., p. 218. 
Achaea catella, Guen., Noct., 111, p. 247. 
Catocala travers, Fereday, Trans. N. Z. Inst., 1x, p. 457, 
pl. xvii. 
Two male specimens taken at Yoshino, Yamato, in 
August, 1900, and Tobetsu, Oshima, August, 1902. 
Hitherto unrecorded from Japan. 
Local distribution. HoNnbo; YEZO. 
General distribution. ETHIOPIAN, ORIENTAL and AUS- 
TRALIAN REGIONS; JAPAN. 
Collection number, 1159. 
Sub-Family MOMINAE. 
Genus MoMA. 
Hiibner, Verz., p. 203 (1827); Hampson, Moths India, 
li, p. 435 (1894). 
112. 
Moma champa, var. ainu. var. nov. (Plate XXX, fig. 19.) 
Moma champa, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., p. 4038, pl. 
xxxill, fig, 2 (1879); Hampson, Moths India, ii, 
p. 435, fig. 246 (1894); Alph., Rom. sur Lép., ix, 
p. 158, pl. xiii, fig. 4 (1897); Leech, Trans. Ent. Soc. 
Lond., p. 525 (1900). 
Trichosea champa, Staud., Cat. Lep. pal., p. 130 (1901). 
Var. ainw differs from the type in having the postmedial line of 
forewings more distinct. This forms a curve from the costa to below 
the middle of the wing, thence inwardly oblique to the inner 
margin. The hindwings are yellowish and broadly bordered with 
blackish. 
