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NOCTUID^. 



suffused witli fuscous especially in female, sometimes leaving tlie 

 costal and terminal areas "whitish ; the underside pale, the costal 

 area suffused with rufous and irrorated with white. 



Ah. 1. Fore wing with the orbicular and reniform conjoined by 

 a white streak in lower part of cell. 



Ab. 2. Fore wiug without white centre to orbicular. 



Ab. 3. Fore wing with the white on reniform replaced by yel- 

 lo^Yish, the orbicular sometimes with yellow centre. 



Ab. 4. Vertex of thorax, basal area of fore wing, cell and area 

 on each side of subterminal line suffused with fiery red. 



I/ab. Hawaii, Kauai. Mt. Waimea, 4000' (Perlivs), d' , 1 ? 

 type, Olaa, 6 cJ , 2 2 , Kilauea, 1 $ , Haleakala, 5 c? , 7 $ , Kona 

 {PerJcins), 1 c? . Kvji. 30-40 millim. 



Genus NEPHELODES. 



lype. 



Nciyhelod.es, Guen. Noct. i. p. 129 (1852) emmedonia. 



Monosca, VVlk. Char. Undescr. Het. p. 29 (18()9) emmedonia. 



Monostola, Alph. Eom. Mtini. vi. p. 37 (1892) asiatica. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint fringed 

 •with hair, the 3rd moderate ; frons smooth ; eyes large, rounded ; antenna of 

 male bipeetinate, typically with short branches ending in a bristle, the apical 

 part serrate ; head and thorax clothed with hair only, the pro- and metathorax 

 with spreading crests ; tibiiB fringed with hair ; abdomen witli dorsal series of 

 crests. Fore wing broad, the apes rectangular, the termen rounded ; veins 

 iJ and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upjier angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing 

 with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing witli veins 3, 4 from angle 

 of cell; 5 obsolescent from just below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from 

 upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with cell near base only. 



Sect. I. {Monostola). Antenniie of male bipeetinate to apex, the 

 branches long. 

 A, Fore wing with the postmedial line excurved above inner 



margin asiatica. 



E. Fore wiug with the postmedial line not excurved above inner 



margin injans. 



1655. Nephelodes asiatica. 



Monostola asiatica, Alph. Rom. Mem. vi. p. 37, pi. 2. f. 7, a, b (1892); 

 Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 19-4. 



Fig. 92. — Kephelodes asiatica, ^ . \. 



S . Head, thorax, and abdomen bright rufous ; antennae yellow. 

 Fore wing bright rufous with very slight dark irroration ; the veins 

 and medial area slightly darker, especially towards inner margin ; 

 traces of a subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; antcmcdial 



