464 XOCTUIDJE. 



4161. Monodes fuscimacula. (Plate CXXXIV. fig. 5.) 



Hadena fuscimacula, Grote, Bull. Geol. Geog. Surv. Terr. vi. p. 262 

 (1881)'; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 151. 



Head and thorax rufous mixed with greyish ; tegulse deep 

 rufous at base, with dark medial line defined by whitish above : 

 tarsi black ringed with white ; abdomen greyish suffused with 

 fuscous. Fore wing brownish grey irrorated with rufous, the 

 medial area except towards costa and the terminal area except at 

 apex suffused with rufous, the veins irrorated with black ; subbasal 

 line fuscous defined by greyish on outer side, bent outwards at 

 median nervure and ending at subraedian fold ; antemedial line 

 blackish defined by grey on inner side, slightly angled outwards 

 below co^ta, then obliquely excurved ; claviform absent; orbicular 

 and reniform with black centres and grey aunuli, undefined, the 

 former very small, round, the latter narrow and constricted at 

 middle; traces of a dark medial line oblique from costa to median 

 nervure ; postraedial line black defined by grey on outer side, bent 

 outwards below costa, excurved to vein 5, then incurved ; subter- 

 minal line greyish defined by rufous suffusion on inner side, slightly 

 excurved below vein 7 and at middle, and bent outwards to tornus ; 

 a terminal series of black points with minute whitish points 

 between them at the veins; cilia fuscous, greyish at tips. Hind 

 wing greyish suffused with fuscous brown, the cilia whitish with a 

 dark line through them ; the underside greyish clothed with fuscous 

 scales in male and with blackish discoidal spot and diffused post- 

 medial line, in female greyer irrorated with fuscous. 



Hah. U.S.A., Florida, Texas, 1 tf , 1 $ type. Exp. 30 millim. 



4162. Monodes hyposcota, n. sp. (Plate CXXXIV. fig. 6.) 



Caradrina fuscimacula, Hmpsn. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1898, p. 240, subsp. 1 

 (nee Grote). 



Head and thorax ochreous brown mixed with dark brown ; palpi 

 black, whitish at tips : pectus and legs blackish, the tarsi ringed 

 with white; abdomen greyish tinged with fuscous, the anal tuft 

 more ochreous. Fore wing ochreous tinged with rufous and 

 irrorated with fuscous especially on medial and terminal areas ; 

 subbasal line indistinct, angled outwards below costa and ending 

 at submedian fold, a diffused oblique dark shade beyond it from 

 median nervure to inner margin ; antemedial line indistinct, 

 double, oblique, slightly sinuous ; orbicular a minute pale annulus 

 with dark centre, round; reniform very narrow, constricted at 

 middle, with pale annulus slightly defined by fuscous, its centre 

 defined by fuscous and its upper and lower parts filled in with 

 black ; an obliquely curved diffused dark medial shade ; postmedial 

 line double filled in with ochreous, bent outwards below costa, 

 excurved to vein 5, then incurved, a double series of black points 

 beyond it on the veins and some slight pale points on costa ; 

 subterminal line pale slightly defined by fuscous on inner side, 



