MOMA, 377 



6i. Fore wing with the subterminal line forming dentate 



black marks between veins 7 and 5 champa. 



h. Fore wing ochreons white. 



a^. Fore wing with the subterminal line finely dentate 



between veins 7 and 5 aimi. 



h^. Fore wing with the subterminal line forming 

 dentate black spots between veins 7 and 5. 

 a". Fore wing with the postniedial line strongly 



dentate gypsochroa. 



h'^. Fore wing with the postmedial line sliglitly 



dentate ludijica. 



B. Abdomen without dorsal series of distinct black spots ... nigrcscens. 



8194. Moma obsolescens. (Plate CCXXXIV. lig. 17.) 



Moma obsolescens, Warr., Seitz, Gross-Schmctt. Indo-Austr. si. pi. 5 

 (1912). 



Head and thorax white; antennae black except at base an 1 with a 

 black line between their bases ; palpi black above, with white ring 

 at extremity of 2nd joint ; lower part of frons black ; tegulte with 

 black marks at base and medial band ; patagia with black spot near 

 base, oblique bar near tips and the edges black ; dorsum of thorax 

 with four pairs of black spots and the metathorax with lateral black 

 marks ; legs banded black and white ; abdomen white, the crests 

 black except at tips, the sides yellow except towards extremity, 

 sublateral series of black spots. Fore wing silvery white slightly 

 irrorated with blackish ; black pomts at base of costa and median 

 nervm-e ; the costal edge black towards base ; minute subbasal 

 black streaks in and below the cell and a spot above vein 1, ante- 

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

 inner margin and incurved in cell and at vein 1, the inner line 

 strongly incurved in cell, then much interrupted ; orbicular a small 

 black annulus, the reniform defined by a black striga on inner side ; 

 an oblique black bar from middle of costa and oblique crenulate line 

 from discal fold to inner margin ; postmedial line black, bent out- 

 wards below costa, oblique to vein 6, then crenulate and rather 

 inwardly oblique, a wedge-shaped black spot beyond it from costa 

 and a series of short black streaks on the veins ; subterminal line 

 Avith oblique black bar from costa, bent outwards and obsolete at 

 vein 7, then waved ; a series of short black streaks on the extremities 

 of the veins ; a fine black terminal line ; cilia chequered black and 

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

 the veins fuscous, the costal area tinged with fuscous ; a fine black 

 tenninal line ; cilia chequered black and white. Underside of fore 

 wing suffused with blackish except on inner area, the cell and area 

 just below it clothed with yellow-brown hair in male, some white 

 marks on costa ; hind wing with small black discoidal spot, medial 

 and postmedial black spots on costa, and short postmedial black 

 streaks on veins 6 to 2. 



Hah. Punjab, 1 c? , Kulu, Sultanpur {Q-. Touncf), 2 5 type, 

 Mm-ree {Harford), 1 c? , Thundiani {Yerlury), 2 S, Kangra 

 {Hocking), 1 d , 1 ? . F.ocp. 42-50 millim. 



