76 >-OCTUID.E. 



waved red-brown teriuiiial line ; cilia red-brown at tips. Hind 

 "wing yellow, the terminal area suffused with red-brown ; a slight 

 oblique brown 230stmedial line from discal fold to inner margin, 

 excurved in submedian interspace ; a waved red-brown terminal 

 line ; cilia red-brown at tips. Underside yellow ; fore wing tinged 

 with brown except on terminal area ; hind wing slightly irrorated 

 with brown, a slight curved postmedial line from costa to vein 2. 



Hah. S. Nigeria, Lakoja, Mt. Patti {Christy), 1 $; Uganda, 

 Ruwenzori (WoUasfon), 1 c? , 1 ? tjpe j^ecflnata ; Madagascar, 

 type t d in Coll. Mabille. JEj^j}- 44-50 millim. 



Genus MOCIS. 



lype. 



Mods, Hiibn. Verz p. 267 (1827) undata. 



Pelamia, Giien. Noct. iii. p. 286 (18.o2) phasianoides. 



Ee'inigia, G-uen. Noct. iii. p. 312 (1852) frwgalis. 



Baratha, WJk. xxxiii. 102l (1865) disseverans. 



Cauninda, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. 190 (1881) undata. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to 

 vertex of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd typically moderate, oblique ; 

 frons smooth ; eyes large, round ; anteniife of male typically ciliated ; thorax 

 clothed almost entirely with scales and without crests ; tibiae of male 

 typically fringed with long hair, the fore tibias not spiiied, the hind tibige 

 spined ; build slender ; abdomen smoothly sealed and without crests. Fore 

 wing with the apex somewhat produced, the termen evenly curved and 

 slightly crenulate ; 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. 

 Hind wing with the cell one-half length of wing ; veins 3, 4 from angle ; 

 5 fully developed from just above angle; 6, 7 from upper angle; S anasto- 

 mosing with the cell near base only. 



Sect. I. {Pelamia.) Antennae of male bipectinate with moderate branches ; 

 tibiae smoothly scaled. 



A. Fore wing with diffused brown shading above the pale 



streak in submedian fold and beyond the oblique post- 

 medial line phasianoides. 



B. Fore wing with a narrow blackish streak above the pale 



streak in submedian fold and narrow blackish band 



beyond the oblique jDOstmedial line electaria. 



7845. Mocis phasianoides. 



Telamia phasianoides, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 286, pi. 22. f. 8 (1852). 



S . Head, thorax, and abdomen grey-white iiTorated with brown ; 

 antennae with the branches brown ; legs brown. Fore wing grey- 

 white irrorated with brown ; an oblique white line from below costa 

 well beyond middle to above vein 1 along which it is bent inwards 

 to base with a wedge-shaped brown patch above it ; a slight brown 

 discoidal striga ; the postmedial line followed by a brown band 

 extending to the oblique rather diffused white subterminal line 

 defined on outer side by brown suffusion ; a brown terminal line ; 

 cilia brownish with a Avhite line at base. Hind Aving white, the 



