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medial line oblique and blackish from costa to upper angle of cell, 

 then faint, brownish, waved ; a slight black streak beyond lower 

 angle of cell; postmedial line blackish slightly defined by whitish 

 on outer side, bent outwards below costa, very oblique and. minutely 

 dentate to vein 6, then more strongly dentate, strongly incurved 

 below vein 3 and excurved below submedian fold, some blackish 

 points beyond it on costa ; siibterminal line very faint, excurved 

 below vein 7 and at middle, then incurved ; a terminal scries of 

 blackish points. Hind wing white tinged with brown ; a slight 

 dark terminal line; cilia white; the underside white slightly 

 irrorated with fuscous, a small blackish discoidal spot and indistinct 

 curved postmedial line. 



Hub. U.S.A., Xcw York, Evans Center (Grote), 1 $, Wisconsin, 

 1 2 type. Exp. 32 millim. 



Genus MONODES. 



Type. 



Monocles:, Ghien. Noet. i. p. 240 (1852) micicoL 



Alpesa, Wlk. xv. 1662 (1858) villicosta. 



Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned, rather slender, the 2nd joint 

 reaching vertex of head, the 3rd moderate ; frons smooth ; eyes large, rounded ; 

 antenna of male typically ciliated; build slender; head and thorax clothed chiefly 

 with scales, the pro- and metathorax with typically slight spreading crests ; fcibise 

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

 wing with the. apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and hardly crenulate : 

 veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anas- 

 tomosing 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. 



Sect. I. Antennae of male strongly serrate. 



4153. Monodes cuprescens, n. sp. 



Head and thorax whitish mixed with brown ; sides of palpi and 

 frons blackish ; tarsi fuscous with slight pale rings ; abdomen white 

 faintly tinged with brown. Fore wing white largely suffused and 

 irrorated with cupreous red-brown ; subbasal line white, oblique, 

 from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line brown defined by 

 white on inner side, curved, minutely dentate below costa and angled 



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Fig. 130. — Monodes cuprescens, c$. f 



inwards on vein 1 ; claviform faintly defined by white at extremity ; 

 orbicular whitish, undefined, round; reniform with white centre 

 defined by brown and white annulus ; a brown medial shade from 

 costa to below cell ; postmedial line brown defined by white on 



