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/; 2, Fore wing red-brown, the orbicular and reniform 

 plight, dark. 

 a 3 . Fore wing with the postmedial line double 



filled with ochreous hyposcota. 



b 3 . Fore wing with the postmedial line indistinct, 



dark insipida. 



41G0. Monodes antica. 



Verigea antica, Wlk. x. 278 (1856). 



Xylina detrcvta, Druee, Biol. Centr.-Ain., Ilet. i. p. 297 (part., nee Wlk.). 

 Verigea concisa, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 481 (part., nee Wlk.). 

 Carudrina fuscimaoula, Hmpsn. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1898, p. 2-16, subsp. 2 

 (nee Grote). 



<$. Head and thorax rufous mixed with dark brown; palpi 

 dark brown, pale at tips; teguloe dark brown at base followed by 

 a black medial line ; pectus and legs dark brown, the tarsi with 

 pale rings ; abdomen dark brown, the base greyish. Fore wing 

 red-brown with slight dark irroration ; subbasal line indistinct, 

 double, waved, from costa to submedian fold : antemedial line 

 indistinct, double, waved, oblique : claviform defined by a few 

 dark scales ; orbicular a white point defined by dark scales ; 



Fig. 135. — Monodea antica, J. \. 



reniform a black bar defined by white and somewhat constricted 

 at middle; a very indistinct medial line, oblique from costa to 

 lower angle of cell, then incurved ; postmedial line double, the 

 outer line very indistinct except at costa and with series of black 

 points beyond it on the veins, slightly bent outwards below costa, 

 excurved to vein 4, then incurved, a series of pale points with 

 blackish stria? between them beyond it on costa; subterminal line 

 indistinct, pale, defined on inner side by brown, excurved below 

 vein 7 and at middle; a terminal series of small black spots defined 

 by slight pale lunules and with white points between them at the 

 veins. Hind wing pale red-brown, the cilia with a fine white line 

 at base. Underside of fore wing clothed with fuscous brown 

 androconia to near termen ; hind wing clothed with fuscous 

 brown androconia to the curved postmedial line, the terminal area 

 greyish irrorated with brown, a black discoidal spot and terminal 

 series of points. 



Hab. Mexico, Coatepec in Coll. U.S. Xat. Mus.; Guatemala, Irazu 

 (Rogers), 1 $ , 1 $ ; Costa Rica, Kio Sucio {Rogers), 2 J , Godman- 

 Salvin Coll. ; Venezuela (Dyson), 1 <3 type. Exp. 30 milliin. 



