MEDASINA.— MENOPHEA. 
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BOAUMIID^. 
Medasina plumosa. (Plate CL. fig. 18.) 
Expanse 3 inches, 
Male. Antennae lieavily plumed throughout. Ground-colour dark or olive-browu, 
irrorated with numerous black scales. Fore wing with a narrow antemedial waved concave 
black band; another from costa one third from apex^ inwardly-oblique to discoidal nervule, 
then curved and slightly waved to below first median nervule^ then straight to centre of inner 
margin. Hind wing with a waved postmedial black band. Both wings with an obsolescent 
grey submarginal band, showing as a conspicuous white spot between second and third 
median nervules of fore wing ; a series of black antecilial lunules. Underside smoky brown 
or black ; both wings with dark medial band ; the postmedial bands on a pale ground ; pale 
patches along outer margin. 
The antennae are even more heavily plumed than in M. creataria and strixaria ; the 
markings are nearest those of Hemerophila mauraria, the antennae of which are simple at the 
tips and almost so at base, the median part being moderately pectinated. 
Menophra nigrifasciata. (Plate CL. fig. 1.) 
Expanse 1^ inch. 
Female. Pale umber-brown, with numerous short darker striai. Fore wing with a 
narrow black band from the costa just before the middle, lunulate to lower extremity of cell, 
then inwardly-oblique to inner margin one fourth from base, the area immediately inside it 
clouded with dark brown ; a small black lunule at end of cell; a narrow black band from 
costa one third from apex, curved outwards to upper discoidal nervule, where it meets a black 
streak from the outer margin below apex, then inwardly-oblique, slightly curved and waved 
to inner margin just beyond the middle ; the outer area slightly speckled with black, and the 
nervules slightly clouded with dai'k brown or black. Hind wing with a narrow black, nearly 
straight band from apex to inner margin two thirds from base ; traces of a pale submarginal 
band, obsolete towards apex. Both wings with interrupted lunulate black marginal band. 
Underside paler ; the antemedial band on fore wing obsolescent ; a spot at end of cell of 
hind wing as well as fore wing; a diffused fuscous patch between postmedial band and outer 
margin below the apex of each wing. 
Nearest to M. [Hemerophila) retractarla, the bands rather different and coloration 
totally so. 
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