MEDASINA.— MENOPHRA. l()-3 



BOAEMIID^. 



Medasina plumosa. (Plate CL. fig. 18.) 



Expanse 3 inches. 



Male. Antenna} heavily phimed throughout. Ground-colour dark or olive-brown, 

 irrorated with numerous black scales. Fore wing with a narrow antemedial waved concave 

 black band; another from costa one third from apex, inwardly-oblique to discoidal nervule, 

 then curved and slightly waved to below fii'st median nervule, then straight to centre of inner 

 margin. Hind wing with a waved postmedial black band. Both wings with an obsolescent 

 grey submarginal band, showing as a conspicuous white spot between second and third 

 median nervules of fore wing ; a series of black antecilial lunules. Underside smoky brown 

 or black ; both wings with dark medial band ; the postmedial bands on a pale ground ; pale 

 patches along outer margin. 



The antennaj are even more heavily plumed than in M. creaiaria and strixaria ; the 

 markings are nearest those of Hemerophila mauraria, the antennae of which are simple at the 

 tips and almost so at base, the median part being moderately pectinated. 



Menophra nigi-ifasciata. (Plate CL. fig. 1.) 



Expanse 1^ inch. 



Female. Pale umber-brown, with numerous short darker striaj. Fore wing with a 

 narrow black band from the costa just before the middle, lunulate to lower extremity of cell, 

 then inwardly-oblique to inner margin one fourth from base, the area immediately inside it 

 clouded with dark brown ; a small black lunule at end of cell; a narrow black band from 

 costa one third from apex, curved outwards to upper discoidal nervule, where it meets a black 

 streak from the outer margin below apex, then inwardly-oblique, slightly curved and waved 

 to inner margiu just beyond the middle ; the outer area slightly speckled with black, and the 

 nervules slightly clouded with dark brown or black. Hind wing with a narrow black, nearly 

 straight band from apex to inner margin two thirds from base; traces of a pale submarginal 

 band, obsolete towards apex. Both wings with interrupted lunulate black marginal band. 

 Underside paler ; the antemedial band on fore wing obsolescent ; a spot at end of cell of 

 hind wing as well as fore wing ; a diffused fuscous patch between postmedial band and outer 

 margin below the apex of each wing. 



Nearest to M. {Hemerophila) retractaria, the bands rather different and coloration 

 totally so. 



