MOM A. 377 



5'. Fore wing with the subteriuinal line forming dentate 



black murks between veins 7 and 5 chainiui. 



h. Fore wing ochreous white. 



a'. Fore wing with the subterminal line finely dentate 



between veins 7 and 5 aimi. 



?/. Fare wing with the subterminal line forming 

 dentate black spots between veins 7 and ,'). 

 a-. Fore wing with the postmedial line strongly 



dentate gi/psochroa. 



Ir. Fore wing with the postmedial line slightly 



dentate ludifica. 



B. Abdomen without dorsal series of distinct black spots ... nigrcscens. 



8194. Moma ol)solescens. (Plate CCXXXIV. Hg. 17.) 



Moma ohsolescens, Warx-., Seitz, Gross-Sehmett. Indo-Austr. xi. pi. 5 

 (191-2). 



Head and thorax Avhite ; antennae black except at base an 1 with a 

 black line between their bases ; palpi black above, with -white ring 

 at extreniit}' of 2nd joint ; lower part of frons black ; tegular 'with 

 black marks at base and medial band ; patagia witli black spot near 

 base, oblique bar near tips and the edges black ; dorsum of thorax 

 with four pau's of black spots and the metathorax witli lateral black 

 marks ; legs banded black and. wliite ; abdomen white, the crests 

 black except at tips, the sides yellow except tov\-ards extremity, 

 sublateral series of black spots. Fore wing silvery white slightly 

 irrorated with blackish ; black points at base of costa and median 

 nervm'e ; the costal edge black towards base ; minute subbasal 

 black streaks in and. below the cell and a spot above vein 1, ante- 

 medial line double, black, excurved below costa and cell and above 

 inner margin and incurved in cell and at vein 1, the inner line 

 strongly incurved in cell, then much interrupted ; orbicular a small 

 black annulus, the reniform defined by a black striga on inner side ; 

 an oblique l)lack liar from middle of costa and oblique crenulate line 

 from discal fold to inner margin ; postmedial line black, bent out- 

 wards below costa, oblique to vein 6, then crenulate and rather 

 inwardly oblique, a wedge-shaped black spot beyond it from costa 

 and a series of short black streaks on the veins ; subterminal line 

 with oblique black bar from costa, bent outAvards and obsolete at 

 vein 7, then waved ; a series of short black streaks on the extremities 

 of the veins ; a fme black terminal line ; cilia clieciuered black and 

 wliite. Hind wing white, the inner area clothed with yellow hair, 

 the veins fuscous, the costal area tinged with fuscous ; a fine black 

 terminal line; cilia chequered black and white. Underside of fore 

 wing suffused with blackish except on inner area, the cell and area 

 just below it clothed with A'cllow-brown hair in male, some white 

 marks on costa ; hind wing with small lilack discoidal sjiot, medial 

 and postmedial black spots on costa, and short postmedial black 

 streaks on veins 6 to 2. 



Hab. Punjab, 1 d", Kulu, Sultanpur {G. Yoimr/), 2 $ type, 

 Murree {Harford), 1 J, Thundiani {Yrrhuri/), 2 6, Kangra 

 {Jlocklnu), 1 d , 1 ? . y^^rp. 42-50 millim. 



