MOMA. 381 



latter open above and slightly angled inwards on median nervure, 

 some black irroration beyond its upper and lower extremities and 

 before its lower inner extremity ; a black bar from middle of costa, 

 and oblique crenulate line from discal fold to inner margin ; jDOst- 

 medial line double, black, slightly bent outwards below costa, 

 oblique to vein 6, then dentate, incurved below vein 4, the outer 

 line forming a small triangular spot on costal area with a white 

 point at costa and white and black points beyond it ; subterminal 

 line with oblique black bar from costa, bent outwards and almost 



Fig. 97. — Moma luclifica, cJ . }. 



obsolete on vein 7, then strong waved, somewhat exeurved at 

 middle ; short black streaks on the extremities of the veins and 

 some black irroration before termen below apex ; cilia chequered 

 black and white. Hind wing white, the inner area clothed with 

 orange-yellow hair ; the veins streaked with fuscous and the costal 

 area slightly irrorated with fuscous ; a more or less developed fuscous 

 subterminal shade from vein 6 to termen at vein 1, sometimes almost 

 obsolete, sometimes bread above and incurved at vein 2 ; a terminal 

 series of black strise ; cilia chequered white and black except towards 

 tornus. Underside of fore wing white with brownish suffusion in and 

 below the cell except towards base and black above it on costa, the 

 costal half of terminal area black with a white postmedial bar 

 from costa and spots above and below vein 5, some small white 

 spots beyond it on costa ; hind wing with small black discoidal 

 spot, irregular mark from middle of costa, postmedial bar from costa 

 and minute streaks on the veins, and streak on costa near apex. 



5 . Hind wing'with the terminal area fuscous broadly at costa, 

 narrowing to a point at vein 1 ; the underside of fore wing withovit 

 yellow-brown hair in and below the cell. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the black markings more diffused; hind 

 wing wholly tinged with blackish except the yellow inner area. 



Hah, Feaistce, Sand Coll. ; Geemany, Zeller, Frey & Leech 

 Colls. ; AusTEiA, Leech Coll. ,- Htingaet ; Switzeeland ; N. 

 Italy ; S. Sweden ; W. Russia, Livonia. Exp. 40-52 millim. 



Larva. Kii-by, Butt. & Motlis Eur. p. 155 ; Hffm. Eaup. p. 77, pi 22. f. 12. 



Greyish blue with dorsal and subdorsal yellow lines and white 

 lateral lines ; the 3rd somite with dorsal white j)atch and the anal 

 somite with lateral white patches ; warts hairy ; 11th somite with 

 a hairy tubercle. Food-plants : Sorhns aiicvparia and Cratcegiis 

 oxyacantha. 9-10. 



