4 SO N0CTUIDJ2. 



J. Head and thorax ochreous mixed with red- brown ; palpi 

 with the 2nd joint black at sides ; frons with black bar ; tegulee 

 with dark lines at middle and tips ; metathoracic crest blackish 

 tipped with grey ; abdomen ochreous white irrorated with brown, 

 sublateral series of small black spots except towards base, the anal 

 tuft black-brown below. Fore wing red-brown, a broad costal 

 ochreous fascia suffused with rufous, extending at base to inner 

 margin and narrowing suddenly to apex ; subbasal line represented 

 by a slight dark striga from costa and some dark scales below cell ; 

 antemedial line represented by two dark striae from costa, a black 

 point in cell and white line from cell to inner margin, incurved in 

 submedian interspace, then excurved, an oblique fascia of black 

 scales before it on inner area ; claviforru a small elongate pure 

 white 'mark; orbicular absent; reniform very small, narrow and 

 oblique, white with red-browu bar in centre ; a waved blackish 

 medial line except on costal area ; postmedial line represented by 

 two blackish spots on costa, then by minute black streaks on the 

 ochreous area bent outwards below costa, on the brown area slight, 

 double, filled in with pure white and with broad diffused band of 

 white beyond it, incurved to submedian fold, then slightly sinuous 

 and outwardly oblique, some slight brown marks beyond it on 

 costa; an oblique irregular ochreous apical patch with brown point 

 on costa; subterminal line represented at middle by small dentate 

 black marks in the interspaces with some ochreous scales on their 

 outer side, on inner area by a whitish line bent outwards to torn us ; 

 a terminal series of minute black lunules slightly defined by 

 ochreous on inner side and with white points at extremities of the 

 veins ; cilia black-brown with fine pale line at base. Hind wing 

 ochreous white, the inner and terminal areas broadly suffused with 

 brown ; a slight black discoidal lunule ; cilia white with a dark 

 line through them ; the underside ochreous white, the costal and 

 terminal areas irrorated with brown, a black discoidal lunule, 

 crenulate postmedial line, and slight waved subterminal line with 

 blackish spot at discal fold. 



5 . Hind wing wholly suffused with brown. 



Hab. Mexico, Coatepec {Schaus), 1 5, Jalapa {Trujitto), 1 2; 

 Guatemala, Las Mercedes {Champion), 1 2 , Vera Paz {Champion), 

 1 $ , San Isidro {Champion), ] 2; Panama, Chiriqui {Champion), 

 1 2 , Godman-Salvin Coll. ; Jamaica {Kaye), 1 £ ; Cuba, Santiago 

 {Schaus), 2 d , 1 2 , Baracoa {Schaus), 1 tf , Tanamo {Schaus), 1 $ ; 

 Venezuela, Aroa, 2 J , 1 $ ; Br. Guiana, Potaro R. {Eaye), 1 $ ; 

 Brazil, Organ Mts., Tijuca ( Wagner), 1 $ , Sao Paulo {JD. Jones), 

 U, 1 $ ; Paraguay, Sapucay {Foster), 1 tf , 2 2 . Exp. 24- 

 28 millim. 



4181. Monodes jalapensis. 



Acontia jala'pensis, Schaus, Trans. Am. Ent. Soe. xxi. p. 239 (1894). 

 Acontia darpa, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 493 pi 95 f 5 

 (1898). ■ 



Head and thorax dark reddish brown mixed with grey ; palpi 



