MONODES. I7."j 



blackish stkeak in middle of cell, discoidal lunule and terminal 



series of minute lunules. 



iJab. W. China, Cluing- Yang (Pratt), 1 d type. Exja. 30 

 millim. 



-1171. Monodes trifissa, n. sp. (Plate CXXXIV. fig. 12.) 



Enrols albicostata, Huipsn. Muths 1ml. ii. p. 228 (part). 



2 . Head and thorax ochreous -white tinged -with rufous, the 

 extremity of patagia with .some black scales and the metathoracic 

 crest blackish ; pectus and legs suffused with fuscous brown ; 

 abdomen ochreous suffused with brown, the basal crest fuscous. 

 Fore wing with the base and costal area to just beyond postmedial 

 line grey slightly irrorated with black, the inner area and a broad 

 curved fascia from end of cell to apex ochreous, the cell and area 

 beyond its lower extremity rufous and the medial part of terminal 

 area grey with slight dark streaks on the veins and in interspaces ; 

 subbasal line represented by a slight oblique black striga from 

 costa : antemedial line absent ; orbicular white with an ochreous 

 tinge in centre and slightly defined by brown at sides, narrow, 

 very oblique, its lower extremity produced to three oblique white 

 streaks with a bar across their extremities below the reniform 

 which is represented by a very slight ochreous lunule ; an oblique 

 ochreous streak from below the orbicular to submedian fold at 

 postmedial line, which is very indistinct and double from costa to 

 vein 3, strongly bent outwards below costa, bent inwards at vein 3 

 and sinuous to inner margin : a terminal series of black points. 

 Hind wing greyish wholly suffused with fuscous brown ; the under- 

 side ochreous irrorated with fuscous, a blackish discoidal spot, 

 curved waved postmedial line, and terminal series of stria?. 

 Hab. Punjab, Simla (Harford), 1 $ type. Exp. 24 millim. 



*4172. Monodes plectilis. (Plate CXXXIY. fig. 13.) 

 Axylia plectilis, Guen.Noct. i. p. 135 (1852). 



J . Head, thorax, and abdomen pale brown. Fore wing pale 

 brown: the veins with fine dark streaks; a black streak in sub- 

 median fold from base to middle of wing; a wedge-shaped leaden- 

 fuscous patch below the cell and vein 4 from middle of cell to termon 

 towards which it expands; orbicular and reniform minute, with 

 brown centres and whitish annuli defined by black, a black streak 

 between them in lower part of cell ; a rufous streak from reniform 

 to termen and another below the leaden-fuscous patch. Hind wing 

 -white ; cilia brown at middle and at tips towards apex. 



Ilali. Sierra Leone, type t 6 in Coll. Oberthur. Exp. 20 

 millim. 



