MONIMA, 425 



irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal spot, and traces of a sinuous 

 postmedial line. 



Hab. Japan, Yokohama (Jwias, Pnjer), 5 d" , 3 § , type, Kiushiu, 

 1 $ . Exp. 44 millim. 



*1758. Monima nigrorenalis. (Plate XC. fig. 22.) 

 Leiicania nigrorenalis, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 277 (189-1). 



5 . Head and thorax pale grey mixed with dark grey ; palpi and 

 frons at sides and antennae blackish ; tarsi ringed with w'hite ; 

 abdomen red-brown. Fore wing whitish, slightly tinged with pale 

 red-brown and irrorated and striated with blackish ; subbasal line 

 represented by slight black striae from costa and cell ; traces of a 

 nearly straight antcmedial line, with a small black spot beyond it 

 on inner margin ; orbicular represented by a small round black 

 spot ; reniform a rather narrow black lunule, its lower part con- 

 nected by diffused black between veins 2 and 4 with the subterminal 

 line ; a prominent medial black bar from cell to inner margin ; 

 postmedial line bent outwards below costa, oblique to vein 6, then 

 inwardly oblique and nearly obsolete below vein 4 ; subterminal 

 line whitish, rather ill-defined, excurved at vein 7 and middle, some 

 terminal black points ;.cilia white at base. Hind wing pale suffused 

 with reddish brown ; cilia whitish at base ; the underside whitish 

 irrorated with brown, a black discoidal spot, sinuous postmedial 

 line, and some points on termen. 



Hah. SiKHiM (Km/vetl), type t $ in Coll. Elwes. Exp. 42 millim, 



1759. Monima arthrolita. (Plate XC. fig. 23.) 



Graphiphora arthrolita, Harv. Bull. Buff. So c. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 275 (1S74) 

 Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 204. 



Head and thorax pale fulvous brown ; palpi blackish at sides ; 

 abdomen pale brown, irrorated and dorsally suffused with fuscous. 

 Fore wing pale fulvous brown irrorated with fuscous ; a small tuft 

 of black scales at base; subbasal line obsolete; antemedial line 

 indistinct, oblique from costa to median nervure, then erect and 

 slightly waved ; orbicular and reniform with very indistinct 

 yellowish annuli, chietiy defined by the quadaate fuscous patch 

 between them, the former round ; a medial shade oblique from 

 costa to lower angle of cell, incurved in submedian interspace ; 

 postmedial line remote from cell, crenulate, bent outwards below 

 costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique and with traces of another 

 line on its inner side ; subterminal line represented by a curved 

 series of small black spots in the interspaces, somewhat incurved 

 towards inner margin ; a terminal series of small black spots. 

 Hind wing fuscous brown with a yellowish tinge ; cilia pale ; the 

 underside whitish tinged with pink and slightly irrorated with 

 brown, a small discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. 



Hah. U.S.A., California, Sanzalito, 1 6 , 1 $ > type. Exp., 

 6 40, $ 44 raiUira. 



