4:32 



N0CTUIDJ5. 



Larva. Mevr. Brit. Lep. p. 73 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. v. p. 2l'1. pi. 213. 



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

 spiracular line pale greenish, rare!}- junkish, edged above by dark 

 grey or black ; head pale l)ro\vii or greenish. Food-plauts : Sallx, 

 Carduus, L)/simnchia, etc. 5-7. 



1709, Moninia cinnamomea. 



Mciiasema cinuamomra, Moore, P. Z. S. 188 1, p. 352, pi. 38. f. 6; 

 llmp.sn. iMotlis IiiJ. ii. p. 277. 



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

 autcunoB above white ; tegulae with bright rufous line before tips 

 "which are white ; abdomen brown. Fore Aving whitish tinged 

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

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

 antemcdial line defined by white on inner side, straight, oolique ; 

 orbicular large, with slight white annul ns defined by rufous, 

 oblique elliptical; reniform (piadrate, defined at sides by white 

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

 defined by white on outer side, straight, oblique ; 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 

 termcn and cilia pale rufous ; the underside with discoidal lunulo 

 and curved postmedial line. 



Hah. SiKHiM, 7600 feet {Dudgeon) , 1 $ . Exp. 46 millim. 



Genus PALPONIMA, nov. 



Type, P. orthosimdes. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely porrect, tbe 2nd joint extending 

 about the lengtb of bead and fringed with long hair below, the 3rd joint long 

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

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

 of female ciliated ; bead and thorax clothed with bair only, the latter with 

 triangular ridge-like dor.sal crest ; tibia; moderately hairy ; abdomen with 

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

 the termen nearly straight to vein 3, then oblique ; veins 3 and o from 

 near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10, anastomosing with 8 to 

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

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

 mosing with the cell near base only. 



1770. Palponima orthosioides. 



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

 Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 205. 



Head and thorax dark brown mixed. with grey ; palpi whitish at 

 tips ; tegulfe with black line just before tlie tips, which are whitish ; 

 abdomen ochreous grey with some dark irroratiou. Fore wing 

 imle grey-brown to dark grey-brown with fuscous irroratiou; 

 isubbasal line double, waved, from costa to vein 1 : antemedial line 



