378 KOCTUID^. 



8195. Moma champa. (Plate CCXXXIV. fig. 18.) 



Noma champa, Moore, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 403, pi. 33. f. 2; Alph. Eoni. 

 Mem, ix. p. 158, pi. 13. i". 4; Haipsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 435; Seitz, 

 Gross-Schmett. pal. iii. pi. 2; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 130. 



Moma champa, ab. diffusa, Warr., Seitz, Gross-Schmett. Indo-Austr. xi. 

 pi. 5 (1912). 



rT . Head and thorax white ; antennie black except at hase and 

 with black bar between their bases ; palpi with the 2nd joint above 

 except at extremity and the 3rd joint black ; frons black at sides ; 

 teguli3e with black bars at base and medial black band ; patagia with 

 spots at base, band near tips and the outer edge black ; tibiae and 

 tarsi banded black and white ; abdomen white, yellow at sides, the 

 dorsal crests black at base, the anal segment with black band, 

 sublateral series of black spots. Fore wing silvery white with a 

 pinkish tinge ; small basal black spots on costa and median nervure ; 

 subbasal streaks on costa and subcostal nervure, a small spot below 

 the cell and larger spots above vein 1 and on inner margin ; ante- 

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

 inner margin, strongly incurved in the cell and incurved at A^ein 1, 

 a black striga beyond it below submedian fold; orbicular a small 

 black annulus ; reniform represented by two black bars, the outer 

 giving off short streaks ; an oblique black bar from middle of costa 

 and a strong oblique crenulate line from discal fold to inner margin ; 

 postmedial line double, black, bent outwards below costa, down- 

 curved to vein 6, then oblique and crenulate, the outer line forming 

 a small triangular spot at costa and with its crenulations filled in 

 with black; subterminal line mth oblique black bar from costa, 

 bent outwards and obsolete at vein 7, then lunulate, the lunules 

 between veins 7 and 4 strong ; short black streaks in the interspaces 

 before termen ; a fine terminal black line ; cilia chequered black 

 and white. Hind wing w^hite, the inner area clothed with yellow 

 hair ; the veins of terminal half blackish ; costal area tinged with 

 fuscous ; a fine black terminal line ; cilia chequered black and 

 white. Underside of fore wing suffused with fuscous except on 

 inner area, the cell and area just below it clothed with yellow- 

 brown hair, some white marks on costa ; hind wing with black spot 

 at middle of costa, postmedial black bar from costa with excurved 

 line from it to vein 2, and black patch at apex. 



$ . Hind wing with the terminal area more or less strongly 

 suffused with fuscous narrowing to tornus ; underside of fore wing 

 without yellow-brown hair in and below the cell. 



Hah. E. Siberia, Ussuri; Japais^, Kiushiu, 1 5 ; W. China, 

 Chang-yang {Pratt), 1 S ; Punjab, 1 S , Dharmsala, 1 c? type, 

 Kangra (Hocking), 1 $ , Umballa, 1 5 ; Sikhim (Moller), 1 $ ; 

 Assam {Badgley), 4 c5' , 3 $ , Khasis, 1 6 ; Travancoee, 1 $ . 

 Exp. 46-58 millim. Type f difusa in Coll. Rothschild. 



