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THE MOTHS OF INDIA. 



SUPPLEMENTAL PAPER TO THE VOLUMES IN 

 " THE FAUNA OF BRITISH INDIA." 



SERIES III, PART III, 

 By 



Sir George Hampson, Bart., f.z.s., f.e.s. 



(Continued, from page 183 of this Volume .) 



Sub-family Hadeninje. 



Genus Monima. 



Type. 



Monima, Hiibn. Verz., p, 229 (1827) miniosa. 



Cuphanoa, Hiibn. Yerz., p. 229 (1827) stabins. 



Semiophora, Steph. 111. Brit. Ent. Haust., II., p. 188 (1829). gothica. 



Twniocampa, Guen. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. VIII,, p. 477 (1839). gothica. 



Grapliiphora Hiibn. Tent. ined. (nee Ochs.) gothica. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi poi'rect, the 2nd joint fringed with long hair 

 in front, the 3rd moderate ; frons smooth, with corneous plate below it : eyes 

 large, rounded ; head and thorax clothed with hair only, the vertex of head 

 and teguhe with rather ridge-like crests, tbe pro- and metathorax with loose 

 crests ; pectus and legs hairy ; abdomen with lateral fringes of hair and without 

 dorsal crests. Forewing with veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from 

 upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from 

 cell. Hindwing«with veins 3-4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle 

 of discocellulars ; 6-7 stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



Sect. I. Antennae of male bipectinate with long branches to near apex, of 

 female with short branches. 



1705. a. Monima eriza, Swinh. A. M. N, H. (7) VII., p. 494 (1901). 



9 . Grey-brown with slight rufous tinge. Forewing with the orbicular 

 represented by an oblique black bar, the reniform by a V-shaped mark ; the 

 subterminal line broken up into black points, slightly sinuous and incurved 

 in discal fold ; some dark points on termen. Hindwing rather paler ; the 

 underside whitish irrorated with brown and with dark discoidal point. 



Habitat. — Kulu. Exp, 44 mill. 



Ssct. II. Antennae of male bipectinate with rather long branches, the apex 

 serrate, of female serrate. 



A. Forewing with blackish or red-brown patch between 

 orbicular and reniform. 



a. Forewing with dentate black marks before middle 



of subterminal line , fasciculate. 



b. Forewing without dentate black marks before 



middle of subterminal line „„ castaneipennis. 



B. Forewing without black or brown patch between 

 orbicular and reniform ".., ferrosticta. 



