MONODES. 401 



-II 57; Monodes devara. 



Eustrotia devara, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 495, pi. 95. f. 15 (1898). 



tf. Head and thorax purplish red-brown; palpi dark at sides, 

 pale in front ; tarsi fuscous ringed with white ; ahdomen fuscous 

 hrown. Fore wing purplish red-brown slightly tinged with fuscous 

 especially towards cost a : the veins slightly streaked with black ; 

 subbasal line indistinct, dark, bent outwards at median nervure 

 and extending to inner margin; antemedial line near middle of 

 wing, oblique, waved, witb a slight oblique dark sbade before it 

 from cell to inner margin ; claviform absent : orbicular represented 

 by a narrow very oblique curved black mark defined by whitish 

 above and below from subcoslal nervure to the reniform which 

 is small, defined by whitish and with black bar on its outer edge ; 

 an oblique sinuous medial line; postmedial line indistinctly 

 double, filled in with pinkish and white towards costa, oblique 



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Fig. 134. — Monodes devara, J. |. 



below costa, excurved to vein 5, then incurved and again excurved 

 at submedian fold, some white points beyond it on costa ; an 

 oblique trifid yellow apical patch ; subterminal line dark, rather 

 indistinct, angled outwards at vein 7, excurved at middle and bent 

 outwards to tornus ; a slight dark terminal line ; a fine white line 

 at base of cilia. Hind wing greyish suffused with brown ; a dark 

 discoidal spot and fine white line at base of cilia, the underside grey 

 irrorated with brown, the costal and terminal areas suffused with 

 brown, a black discoidal spot and diffused postmedial line excurved 

 to vein 4, then incurved. 



$ . Fore wing with the orbicular more quadrate and less oblique. 



Hah. Guatemala, Pantaleon {Champion), 1 § type; Panama, 

 Chiriqui (Champion), 1 $, Godman-Salvin Coll.; Jamaica (Mrs. 

 Swainson), 1 £, Moneague (Walsingham), 1 S , Constant Springs 

 (Wokingham), 1 $ , Castleton (Kaye), 1 $ . Exp. 22 millim. 



4158. Monodes barbarossa, n. sp. (Plate CXXXIV. fig. 3.) 



S . Head and thorax purplish red-brown : palpi fuscous brown, 

 whitish in front and at tips ; lower part of frons whitish ; pectus 

 and legs fuscous brown, the tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen 

 greyish suffused with fuscous. Fore wing purplish red-brown, a 

 diffused blackish wedge-shaped shade from apical half of termen to 

 postmedial line at discal fold, the veins of inner half slightly 

 irrorated with black ; subbasal line dark, bent outwards at median 



