378 >"0CTUiD,i:. 



8195. Moma champa. (Plate CCXXXIV. fig. 18.) 



Moma Champa, Moore, V. Z. S. 1879, p. 403, pi. 33. f. 2; Alpli. Koin. 

 M6m. ix. p. 158, pi. 13. f . 4 ; Huipsn. Mollis Ind. ii. p. 435 ; Seitz, 

 Gross-SchiiK'tt. pal. iii. pi. 2; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 130. 



Moma champa, ab. diffusa, War;-., Seitz, Gross-Schiiiett. Inclo-Austr. xi. 

 pi. 5 (1912). 



r? . Head and tliorax -wliite ; antenna? black except at base and 

 ■with black bar between their bases ; ])alj)i with the 2nd joint above 

 except at cxtreniity and the 3rd jonit black ; frons l)lack at sides ; 

 teguliE with black bars at base and medial black band ; ])atagia with 

 spots at base, band near ti))s and tlie outer edge l)lack ; tibiie and 

 tiirsi banded black and white ; abdomen white, yellow at sides, the 

 dorsal crests black at base, the anal segment with black band, 

 sublateral series of black spots. Fore wing silvery white with a 

 ])inkish tinge ; small basal black spots on costa and median nervure ; 

 subbasal streaks on costii and subcostal nervm'e, a small spot below 

 the cell and lai-ger spots above vein 1 and on inner margin ; ante- 

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

 inner marain, stron"'lv incurved in the cell and incurved at vein 1, 

 a black striga beyond it below submedian told ; orbicular a small 

 black annulus ; reniform represented by two black bars, the outer 

 giving off short streaks ; an oblique black bar from middle of costa 

 and a strong oblique crenulate line from discal fold to inner margin ; 

 postmedial line double, black, bent outwards below costa, down- 

 curved to vein 6, then oblique and crenulate, the outer line forming 

 a small triangular spot at costa and with its crenulations filled in 

 Avith black; subterminal line with oblique black bar from costa, 

 bent outwards and obsolete at vein 7, then lunulate, the lunules 

 between veins 7 and 4 strong ; short black streaks in the interspaces 

 before termen ; a fine terminal black line ; cilia chequered black 

 and white. Hind wing white, the inner area clothed with yellow 

 hair ; the veins of terminal half blackisli ; costal area tinged with 

 fuscous ; a fine black terminal line ; cilia chequered black and 

 white. Underside of fore wing suffvised with fuscous except on 

 inner area, the cell and area just below it clothed with yellow- 

 brown hair, some white marks on costa ; hind wing with black spot 

 at middle of costa, postmedial black bar from costa with excurved 

 line from it to vein 2, and black patch at apex. 



5 . Hind wing with the terminal area more or less strongly 

 suffused with fuscous narrowing to tornus ; underside of fore wing 

 without yellow-brown hair in and below the cell. 



Hah. E. Siberia, Ussuri ; Japan, Kiushiu, 1 5 ; W. CinxA, 

 Chang-yang {Pratt), 1 S ; Punjab, 1 6 , Dharmsala, 1 J type, 

 'Kiingni (Hoc kin ff), 1 2, Umballa, 1 $ ; Sikhim (Mailer), 1 $ ; 

 Assam (Badglej/), -1 d , 3 $ , Kluisis, 1 6 ; Tbatancoee, 1 $ . 

 Exp. 46-58 millim. Type f di/pusa in Coll. Rothschild. 



