76 NOCTLIU.E. 



waved red-brown tenninal line ; cilia red-brjwn at tips. Hind 

 wing yellow, the terminal area suffused with red-brown ; a slight 

 oblique brown postniediul line from diseal fold to inner margin, 

 excurved in subniedian interspace ; a waved red-brown terminal 

 line ; cilia red-brown at tijjs. Underside yellow ; fore wing tinged 

 with lirown except on terminal area ; hind wing slightly irrorated 

 with brown, a slight curved postmedial line from costa to vein 2. 



Hab. S. Nigeria, Lakoja, Mt. Patti {Christy), 1 9 ; Ugaxda, 

 Ruwenzori {WoUasfon), 1 J , 1 ? type pec fina fa ; Madagascar, 

 type t d in Coll. Mabille. £x2). 44-50 millim. 



Genus MOCIS. 



Type. 



Mods, Hiibn. Vcrz p. 267 (1827) undala. 



Pelamin, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 286 (1852) phasianoides. 



Remigia, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 312 (1862) frugalis. 



Baratha, Wlk. xxxiii. 1021 (1865) disseverans. 



C'auiiinda, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. lUO (1881) uiidata. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to 

 vertex of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd typically moderate, oblique; 

 irons smooth ; eyes large, round ; antennae of male typically ciliated ; thorax 

 clothed almost entirely with scales and without crests; tibiae of male 

 typically fringed with long hair, the fore tibiaa not spined, the hind tibiae 

 spined ; build slender ; abdomen smoothly se-aled and without crests. Fore 

 wing with the apex somewhat produced, the termen evenly curved and 

 slightly crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper 

 angle; 9 from 10 ana'^tomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. 

 Hind wing with the cell one-half length of wing; veins 3, 4 from angle; 

 5 fully developed from ju.st above angle; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anasto- 

 uiosing with the cell near base only. 



Sect. I. {Pelaniia.) Antennoe of male bipectinate with moderate branches ; 

 tibiae smoothly sciiled. 



A. Fore wing with diffused brown shading above the pale 



streak in subtnedian fold and bey(3iid the oblique post- 

 medial line phasianoidcf: 



B. Fore wing with a narrow blackish streak above the pale 



streak in submedian fold and narrow blackish band 



beyond the oblique postmedial line clcciaria. 



7845. Mods phasianoides. 

 Pelamia phasianoides, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 286, pi. 22. f. 8 (1852). 



J . Head, thorax, and abdomen grey-white iiTorated with brown ; 

 antenn:e with the branches brown ; legs bi*own. Fore wing grej'- 

 white in'orated with brown ; an oblique white line from below costa 

 well beyond middle to above vein 1 along which it is bent inwards 

 to base with a wedge-shaped brown ]:)atch above it ; a slight brown 

 discoidal striga ; the postmedial line followed by a brown band 

 extending to the oblique rather diffused white subterminal line 

 delined on outer side by brown suffusion ; a brown terminal line ; 

 • ilia brownish with a white line at base. Hind wing white, the 



