MOM A. 435 



Genus MOMA. 

 Moina, Hiibn. Verz. p. 203 (1818). 



Type, M. ludifica, Linn., from Europe. 



Range. Europe ; India ; Ceylon. 



Eyes hairy ; proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned 

 and clothed with long hair below, the 3rd joint short. Thorax 

 and abdomen without tufts, the latter clothed with long hair at 

 sides. 



Larva forms a cocoon in a rolled-up leaf. 



Sect. I. Antennae of male simple. 



2349. Moma Champa, Moore, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 403, pi. 33, fig. 2 ; C.$ S. 



no. 1213. 



S . Head and thorax white ; the 3rd joint of palpi, a spot 

 between antennas, and the antennae, except basal part of shaft, 

 black ; thorax banded and spotted with black ; abdomen yellow, 



the extremity white, a dorsal series 

 of black spots and ventral series 

 of bands. Eore wing white, with 

 some black marks near base ; about 

 7 prominent but ill-defined waved 

 and dentate black lines ; a ring- 

 spot at end of cell. Hind wing 

 white, the inner area clothed with 



^mm f|| ye ii ovv hair . tlie veins black . tne 



-p. ~ 24fi apex slightly suffused with fuscous ; 



Mama ckampa, tf . {. cilia ot ' both wiu g s chequered black 



and white. 

 2 with the outer area of hind wing suffused with black. 

 Hob. ~N.W. Himalayas ; Punjab ; Nilgiris ; Ceylon. Exp., 

 J 44, 2 5°' millim. 



Sect. II. Antennae of male minutely fasciculated. 



2350. Moma entoxantha, n. sp. 



J . Head and thorax fuscous black and whitish ; abdomen orange, 

 with dark dorsal tufts. Eore wing fuscous brown, irrorated with 

 white and suffused with olive-green and purple shades; double 

 ante- aud postmedial lines, the last whitish at costa and inner 

 margin ; an orbicular black ring-spot and lunulate reniform ; 

 indistinct irregularly sinuous medial and submarginal lines ; a 

 whitish patch at outer angle. Hind wing black, the basal and 

 inner areas orange ; cilia chequered black and white. Underside 

 of fore wing black, with the basal area orange ; a short whitish 

 postmedial band from costa and series of white streaks on the 

 veins to the patch at outer angle ; hind wing with the basal and 

 inner areas orange ; the apical and outer areas blue-black, with a 



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