MONIMA. 413 



oblique and strongly sinuous ; claviform large, filled in with black ; 

 orbicular and reniform grey with whitish annuli, open above and 

 below, defined by the cell being black before and between them 

 and some black between reniform and postmedial line, the orbicular 

 round ; postmedial line grey, defined by black marks on inner side, 

 waved, bent outwards below costa, somewhat angled at vein 4, 

 then oblique, some white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal 

 line white, defined by dentate black marks before it below costa 

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

 middle ; cilia chequered brown and grey. Hind wing grey suftased 

 with brown ; cilia white at tips : the underside whitish thickly 

 irrorated with brown, the costal and terminal areas suffused with 

 brown, a black discoidal lunula, curved postmedial line, and traces 

 of a subterminal line. 



Hah. Russia, Sarepta, 2 c? , 1 $ , Urals ; W. Turkestan, Kirgh- 

 istan, Issyk-kul. Exp., S 36, § 40 millim. 



*1738. Monima fasciculata. (Plate XC. fig. 12.) 



Hadena fasciculata, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 204 (1894). 



2 . Head, thorax, and abdomen ferruginous brown ; tegulae 

 tipped with white ; tarsi ringed with white. Fore wing ochreous 

 whitish, almost entirely suffused with ferruginous and irrorated and 

 striated with red-brown ; subbasal line dark brown, waved, from 

 costa to submedian fold; antemedial line oblique, slightly sinuous; 

 claviform large, defined by black ; orbicular and reniform large, 

 whitish defined by black, the former rounded, open above and 

 below, the latter open above and with brown centre with pale 

 striga on it, a red-brown shade between them ; an indistinct, 

 oblique, waved medial line from cell to inner margin ; postmedial 

 line waved, excurved from costa to vein 4, then incurved, the area 

 beyond it from costa to vein 5 red-brown except for the pale line 

 which defines it ; subterminal line ochreous white, nearly straight 

 and slightly diffused, some black marks on inner side below costa 

 and above inner margin and both before and beyond it above and 

 below vein 5 ; termen whitish with a crenulate black line. Hind 

 wing brown tinged with ferruginous, the termen whitish, the cilia 

 ferruginous ; the underside reddish white irrorated with dark 

 brown, a discoidal lunule, sinuous postmedial line, and patch on 

 termen near tornus. 



Hah. SiKHiM {Kmjvett), type f $ in Coll. Elwes. Exp. 54 

 millim. 



1739. Monima gothica. 



Nodua qothica, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. x. p. 516 (1758) ; Clerck, Icones, pi. i. 

 f. 1 ; Esp. Schmett. i'ii. pi. 76. ff. 1, 2 ; Godt. Lep. Fr. v. p. 80, pi. 61. 

 f. 2 ; Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. p. 138 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. 

 p. 201. 



