450 NOCTUIDiE. 



costal area irrorated with brown, a slight blackish discoidal spot 

 and terminal series of minute lunules from apex to vein 2. 

 $ . Fore wing rather more uniform reddish brown. 

 Hah. U.S.A., Texas, Harris Co., 1 <3 co-type, Dallas {Boll), 1 $ . 

 Exp. 34 millim. 



Genus GONODES, nov. 



Type, (r. liquida. 



Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching vertex of 

 Lead and moderately fringed with scales, the 3rd joint moderate ; frons 

 smooth; eyes large, round ; antennae of male ciliated; thorax clothed chiefly 

 with scales, the pro- and metathorax with spreading crests ; tibiae moderately 

 fringed with hair ; abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing with the 

 apex somewhat produced, the termen excised from below apex to vein 4, then 

 oblique; 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 middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 

 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



A. Fore wing with vein 3 defined above and below by white 



streaks dianipkea. 



B. Fore wing with vein 3 defined above by a white streak 



towards extremity albifissa. 



C. Fore wing with vein 3 not defined by white streaks. 



a. Fore wing with oblique red-brown line from lower angle 



of cell to subterminal line above torn us ... obliqua. 



b. Fore wing without oblique line from lower angle of cell 



to above torn us. 



ft 1 . Fore wing with the orbicular absent liquida. 



b l . Fore wing with the orbicular an oblique wedge-shaped 



whitish mark aroensis. 



*4145. Gonodes dianiphea. (Plate CXXXIII. fig. 30.) 



Gonodes dianiphea, D. Jones, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1908, p. 162. 



cJ . Head and thorax ochreous tinged with rufous and mixed 

 with brown ; second joint of palpi with blackish patch ; frons with 

 slight black lateral bars ; tegulae with indistinct blackish lines at 

 middle and near tips ; mid tibiae with blackish spot near extremity, 

 the tarsi blackish with pale rings ; abdomen pale ochreous, the basal 

 crest mixed with black. Fore wing ochreous slightly irrorated with 

 fuscous, the cell and area just below it on medial area suffused with 

 red-brown, a large triangular brown patch on terminal area from 

 apex to below vein 4 ; subbasal line represented by two black stria? 

 from costa ; a short black streak below base of cell ; antemedial 

 line rather indistinct, double at costa and below cell, angled out- 

 wards below costa, then oblique and rather irregular, the outer line 

 very strongly angled outwards to medial line above inner margin ; 

 orbicular absent ; reniform a triangular brown spot with white 

 annulus partly defined by black and with wedge-shaped white 

 mark running inwards from it above median nervure ; a diffused 

 oblique black striga from middle of costa and oblique brown line 



