:moemonia. 



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a*. Fore ■wing; largely suffused with red-brown . delilah. 

 b*. Fore wing almost entirely suffused with dark 



brown clicUdonia. 



h'^. Hind wing with the inner area not suffused with 

 brown. 

 a?. Fore wing grey slightly suffused with red- 

 brown neonympha, 



o3. Fore wing white suffused with blue-grey frederici. 



h^. Hind wing with the medial black band obliquely 



curved illecta. 



b. Fore wing on underside white bella. 



7160. Mormonia epione. 



Noctua epione, Drury, 111. Exot. Ins. i. p. 43, pi. 23. f. 2 (1773); Cram. 

 Pap. Exot. ii. p. 9, pi. lOl^ ff. E, F; Smith, Cat, Noct. N. Am. p. 347. 



Head and -tegiilaj reddish brown mixed with grey, the tegitlse 

 with brown medial line and darker tips ; palpi whitish at base ; 

 thorax dark greyish brown ; pectus and legs white mixed with 

 brownish, the tarsi brown ringed with white; abdomen dark 

 brown, the anal tuft white at tip, the ventral surface white. 



Fig. 4. — Mormonia epione, (^ . 



suffused with brown towards extremity. Fore wing dark brown 

 mixed with grey and red-brown ; subbasal line black, slightly 

 angled outwards below costa and ending at submedian fold ; ante- 

 medial line black, oblique, sinuous, an oblique grey shade beyond 

 it from costa to median nervure ; reniform red-brown slightly 

 defined by black and with deeper red-brown centre, elliptical ; a 

 pear-shaped white spot defined by black below end of cell ; post- 

 medial line black, bent outwards below costa, then defined on outer 



