KO. 2039. NOCTUID MOTHS FROM TROPICAL AMERICA— SCHAVS. 493 



COLODES, ne>Ar genus. 



Palpi upturned, second joint reaching vertex, moderately scaled; 

 third joint short. Antennae minutely pubescent. Thorax clothed 

 with scales, the tufts of metathorax and base of abdomen consisting 

 of spatulate scales. Legs smooth; the medial spurs on hind tibiae 

 long. Fore wings: Outer margin faintly crenulate; vein 2 from well 

 beyond middle of cell; 3 close to lower angle; 4 and 5 from lower 

 angle; 6 from upper angle; 7 and 8 stalked; 9 absent; 10 and 11 

 from cell. Hind wings: Veins 3 and 4 from lower angle; 5 obsoles- 

 cent from middle of discocellular; 6 and 7 from upper angle. 



Ty])e of genus. — Colodes selecta Schaus. 



Near Neomonodes Hampson. 



COLODES SELECTA, new species. 



Male. — Head mottled grayish green and brown. Collar and thorax 

 mottled green and reddish brown. Abdomen above fuscous brown. 

 Fore wings dark green, the lines fuscous brown; subbasal twice out- 

 curved; antemedial wavy, dentate, vertical, outwardly edged with 

 white irrorations on costa, cell, and inner margin; an outcurved 

 medial shade touching reniform, not reaching inner margin; orbic- 

 ular annular with a white point on hind edge; reniform outlined 

 with a white point in front and a thick white crescent behind ; post- 

 medial outcurved beyond cell, white on costa, and with some white 

 irrorations otherwise; a broad subterminal sinuous shade, followed 

 by a similar shade opposite cell; terminal streaks on veins, a.nd a 

 terminal line with white points on veins. Hind wiugs dark bronze 

 brown, almost purplish. Fore wings below dark grayish brown; a 

 small white spot at apex. Hind wings below grayish thickly irro- 

 rated with brown; a black tliscocellular line followed and preceded 

 by similar lines ; a broad postmedial shade. 



Expanse. — 15 mm. 



Habitat. — St. Jean, Maroni River. 



Type.— C&t. No. 16540, U.S.N.M. 



NANAMONODES TRILINEATA, new species. 



Male. — Head, coUar, and thorax fuscous gray, the thorax edged 

 behind with black. Abdomen above pale yellow brown. Fore wings : 

 Costal half dark gray, posterior half whitish buff; base fuscous gray; 

 lines fuscous, outcurved; antemedial straighter; medial inwardly 

 edged with white to within cell; postmedial outwardly edged with 

 white to reniform which consists of a fuscous half circle, the post- 

 medial outwardly forming the other half; a subapical fuscous shade; 

 terminal dark spots. Hind wings gray, darker shaded terminally; 

 a dark shade on discocellular. Fore wings below dark gray, the inner 



