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NOCTUID.i;. 



suffused with fuscous especially in female, sometimes leaving the 

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

 area suffused with rufous and irrorated with white. 



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

 a white streak in lower part of cell. 



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



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

 lowish, the orbicular sometimes with yellow centre. 



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

 on each side of subterminal lino suft'used with fiery red. 



Ilah. Hawaii, Kauai, Mt. Waimea, 4000' (Perkins), 6 J , 1 $ 

 type, Olaa, 6 cJ , 2 $ , Kilauea, 1 5 , llaleakala, 5 J , 7 $ , Kona 

 (PerJcins), 1 6 . ii'.t:^?. 30-40 millim. 



Genus NEPHELODES. „ 



Type. 



Nephelodes, Gnen. Noct. i. p. 121) (185'i) emmedoma. 



Monosca, Wlk. Oliar. Uiidesci'. Het. p. 29 (1869) emmedonia. 



Monostola, Alph. Rom. Mem. vi. p. 37 (1892) asiatica. 



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

 with hair, the iJrd moderate; frous smooth ; eyes large, rounded; antennaj of 

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

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

 with spreading crests ; tibiic fringed with hair ; abdomen with dorsal series of 

 crests. Foro wing broad, the apex rectangular, the termen rounded ; veins 

 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing 

 with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with 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). AntennjE of male bipectinate to apex, the 

 branches long. 



A. Fore wing with the postmedial line excurved above inner 



margin asiatica. 



B. Fore wing with the postmedial line not excurved above inner 



margin infans. 



1655. Nephelodes asiatica. 



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

 Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 194. 



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Fig. 92. — Nephelodes asiatica, (^. \. 



J. Head, thorax, and abdomen bright rufous; antennSD yellow. 

 Fore wing bright rufous with verj^ slight dark irroration ; the veins 

 and medial area slightly darker, especially towards inner margin ; 

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



