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jN'Octuidj]:. 



8199. Moma nigrescens. (Plate CCXXXIV. fig. 21.) 



Moma nigrescens, Warr. ined. 



Head and thorax white faintly tinged with ochreous ; antennae 

 black except towards hase and with black bar between their bases ; 

 palpi black except in front towards base and at extremity of 2nd 

 joint ; sides of f rons black ; tegulse with black bar at base and band 

 at middle ; patagia with spot at base, band towards tips and the 

 outer edge black ; pro- and metathorax with black spots, the meso- 

 thorax with pair of spots ; pectus black and white ; legs banded 

 black and white ; abdomen whitish tinged with fuscous, the anal 

 segment with a black band, the ventral surface wdiite with sublateral 

 series of blackish spots. Fore wing white, faintly tinged with 

 ochreous ; small black spots at base of costa and median nervure ; 

 a subbasal black streak on costa ; small spots in and below the cell 

 with a larger spot beyond them above vein 1 ; antemedial line 

 double, black, the inner line more or less interrupted except towards 

 costa, excurved below costa, above and below submedian fold and 

 above inner margin ; orbicular a small black annulus ; reniform 

 defined by black at sides ; a medial black bar from costa and crenu- 

 late line from cell to inner margin ; the area beyond the cell and 

 below the cell between the antemedial and medial lines suffused with 

 purplish fuscous ; postmedial line double, black, the outer line 

 forming a triangular spot at costa, bent outwards below costa, 

 obliquely curved to vein 6 then dentate, incurved below vein 4, 

 some white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line with oblique 

 black bar from costa, bent outwards and obsolete at vein 7, then 

 sinuous, forming dentate marks above and below vein 5 and angled 

 inwards at vein 2 ; a diffused black patch on termen below apex, 

 then short black streaks on the extremities of the veins ; cilia 

 chequered black and white. Hind wing fuscous, the inner area 

 yellow, the veins of terminal half with black streaks ; an indistinct 

 sinuous whitish postmedial line ending at torntis ; cilia chequered 

 black and white. Underside of fore wing suffused with fuscous, 

 some white marks on costa ; hind wing with slight blackish 

 discoidal spot and curved white postmedial band. 



Hah. Ceylon, Uva {Green), 1 S type, Haputale {MacJcivood), 

 1 5 , Maskeliya {Alston), 1 $ . Exp. 40-46 millim. 



Genus BATHYRA. 



Type. 



Baihyra, Wlk. xxxii. 403(1865) sagaia. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, short, sligbtly fringed 

 with hair, frons smooth ; eyes large, round ; antenna of male almost simple ; 

 thorax clothed with hair and hair-like scales, the patagia with tufts of hair at 

 extremities curled upwards, the pro-, meso-, and metathorax with divided 

 crests ; tibiaa fringed with long hair ; abdomen with dorsal series of liairy 

 crests, the crest on 3rd segment very large. Fore wing with the apex rounded, 

 the termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of 

 cell; 6 from upper angle; 7, 8. and 9, 10 stalked in male, in female 9 from 10 

 anastomosing with 8 to form a long narrow areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing 



