M0N0DB8. 483 



Hah. Canada ; U.S.A., Now York, Maryland, Alabama, Florida 

 (Schaus), 1 2, St. John's Bluff (Doublcdai/), 2 £ types irresoluta 

 and vbicta and (?) ama, Texas, Dallas (I loll), 2 <$ , 3 $, type 

 tracta, Colorado, New Mexico. Exp. 2<J-28 millim. Type f 

 expuncta in Mus. Oxon. 



Guene'o's typo arna was probably redescribed by Walker as either 

 irresoluta or vincta and Guenee's label lost. 



41S4. Monodes festivoides. (Plate CXXXIV. fig. 23.) 



Celana festivoides, Guen. Noct. i. p. 220 (1852) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N.Am. 



p. 149. 

 Erastria varia, Wlk. xii. 808 (1857). 

 Oligia cephdtica, Butl. Entom. xxiv. p. 241 (1891). 



Head and base of tegulae ochreous mixed with dark red-brown ; 

 palpi blackish at sides ; thorax grey- white irrorated with fuscous ; 

 tarsi red-brown with slight pale rings : abdomen grey-white 

 irrorated with fuscous, the anal tuft rufous. Fore wing grey 

 tinged with brown and irrorated with fuscous ; subbasal line black, 

 curved, angled inwards in cell and extending to inner margin ; 

 antemedial line black defined by whitish on inner side, angled 

 outwards below costa, strongly incurved in ceil, then strongly 

 sinuous and faintly double towards inner margin ; clavit'orm small, 

 defined by black at extremity ; orbicular and reniform whitish 

 irrorated with fuscous and defined by black, the former round with 

 its inner side formed by the sinus of the antemedial line, the latter 

 open above with black patches before and beyond it and some 

 fuscous suffusion below the cell ; a slight dark medial line ; post- 

 medial line double, black filled in with whitish, slightly bent 

 outwards below costa, then minutely waved, oblique, and touching 

 lower extremity of reniform ; subterminal line very indistinct, 

 diffused, pale, with some fuscous beyond it at discal fold, somewhat 

 excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; a terminal series of small 

 black spots. Hind wing whitish suffused with fuscous brown ; 

 the underside white irrorated with fuscous, a black discoidal spot 

 and indistinct postmedial line with blackish spots in the interspaces 

 towards costa. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing more variegated with white on basal and 

 costal areas and beyond the postmedial line. 



Ab. 2. varia. Fore wing more uniform brown without the 

 black patches before and beyond the reniform. 



Hab. Canada ; U.S.A., Eastern States to Florida and west to 

 Nebraska, New York, 5 (5,1 $ , Evan's Center (Grate), 1 5 type 

 cephalica, Florida, St. John's Bluff (Doubleday), 5 <S type and 

 type varia, Texas, 1 3 . Exp. 26-30 millim. 



4185. Monodes exesa. (Plate CXXXIV. fig. 24.) 



Celmna exesa, Guen. Noet, i. p. 222 (1852) ; Smith. Cat. Noct. N. Am. 



p. 150. 

 Hadenu Jloridana, Wlk. xxxiii. 730 (18C5). 



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