MOXIMA. 



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purplish red ; palpi blackish ut sides ; abdomen grey-biown, the 

 anal tuft tinged with rufous. Fore wing grey-brown, more or less 

 strougly tinged with rufous asd slightly irrorated with black ; the 

 subbasal line represented by black points on costa and in and below 

 cell, the antemedial line by points on costa, veins, and inner 

 margin ; orbicular and reniform with fuscous centres and pale 

 annuli, the former small, round, the latter constricted at middle ; 

 postmedial line represented by a curved series of points on the 

 veins ; subtermiual line indistinct, pale, defined on inner side by 

 very obscure brown marks, angled outAvards at vein 7 and slightly 

 excurved at middle ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing 

 pale, irrorated and suffused with fuscous brown ; the cilia whitish 

 with a brown line through them ; the underside whitish irrorated 

 with brown, a discoidal spot and postmedial series of points on the 

 veins. 



Hah. Britaik, Leech Coll. ; France ; Germany, Zellcr Coll. ; 

 Switzerland, Frey Coll. ; If. Spain ; Italy ; Scandinavia ; Russia : 

 Armenia; Asia Minor, Pontus, Taurus. Exp. 28-32 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 74 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit v. p. 197, pi. 209. f. 1. 



Green or brown with pale yellowish dots ; dorsal and subdorsal 

 lines pale yellow or whitish ; spiracular line yellow, often spotted 

 with reddish ; posterior edge of anal somite yellowish or whitish ; 

 head sometimes marked with white or black. Food-plants : Oak, 

 hawthorn, Saliv, etc. 5-6. 



1751. Monima fausta. 



Orthosia fausta, Leech, P. Z.S. 1889, p. 513, pi. 50. f. 2. 



Grey-brown to ochreous brown or dull red-brown ; sides of palpi 

 and frons blackish ; tarsi with dark bands ; abdomen fuscous brown. 

 Fore wing more or less strongly irrorated with brown; an indistinct 

 waved subbasal line from costa to submedian fold, with a black 

 point beyond it in cell and often another above vein 1 ; antemedial 

 line represented by black points on costa, submediau and median 

 nervures, vein 1 and inner margin, sometimes traceable as a waved 

 line; orbicular and reniform with faint pale annuli, the former 

 round ; traces of an oblique medial shade sometimes present 

 ■ from cell to inner margin; postmedial line represented by a serits 

 of dark points on the veins, excurved from costa to vein 4, then 

 oblique ; subterminal line indistinct, pale, slightly defined by somewhat 

 puuctiform brown marks on inner side, or almost obsolete, slightly 

 incurved at discal and submedian folds ; a terminal series of dark 

 points, the termen crenulate. Hind wing fuscous brown, the cilia 

 ochreous with a brown line through them ; the underside pale, 

 irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal lunule and rather punctiform 

 sinuous postmedial line. 



Hub. Japan, Yezo (Pn/er), 1 J, Yokohama (Pryer), 3 J, 3 ?, 

 type. Exp. 36-40 millim. 



