484 NOCTUIDiE. 



Head and thorax ochreous suffused with rufous and mixed with 

 dark brown ; palpi with black patch at sides of 2nd joint ; frons 

 black at sides ; tegulae with slight dark medial line ; tarsi black 

 ringed with whitish ; abdomen greyish ochreous irrorated with 

 fuscous brown. Fore wing ochreous suffused with rufous and 

 irrorated with dark brown, a darker shade in and below cell from 

 antemedial line to termen below apex and vein 2, the veins slightly 

 streaked with black ; subbasal line double, waved, oblique, from 

 costa to veiu 1 and with patch of black scales below vein 1 ; ante- 

 medial line double, waved, oblique, angled outwards below costa 

 and above inner margin ; claviform narrow and elongate, defined 

 by black ; orbicular and reniform small, defined by black and 

 with dark centres, the former round, the latter constricted 

 at middle, with a black streak in discal fold and small spot 

 beyond it ; a curved waved medial line ; postmedial line double 

 at costa, bent outwards below costa, then erect, minutely waved 

 and produced to slight black and white streaks on the veins, 

 some ochreous points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line ochreous, 

 arising from an irregular ochreous apical patch, excurved below 

 vein 7, excurved and dentate at middle and bent outwards to 

 tornus ; a lerminal series of black stria3 ; cilia fuscous. Hind wing 

 reddish brown ; cilia whitish with a dark line through them ; the 

 underside white irrorated with brown, the terminal area suffused 

 with brown from apex to vein 2, a blackish discoidal spot and 

 curved postmedial line. 



Hah. U.S.A., Florida (Doubleday), 2 tf , 2 $ type and type 

 floridana, Enterprise, 2 $ . Exp. 30-34 millim. 



4186. Monodes obliquirena, n. sp. (Plate CXXXIV. fig. 25.) 



Head and thorax ochreous suffused with rufous ; palpi black, 

 whitish towards tips ; frons whitish ; tarsi fuscous ringed w r ith 

 white ; abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing ochreous suffused with 

 rufous especially on medial area to submedian fold, the terminal 

 area suffused with fuscous except towards apex and tornus ; some 

 blackish suffusion on base of inner margin ; subbasal line double, 

 rufous filled in with ochreous, waved, from costa to submedian 

 fold : antemedial line double filled in with yellow, oblique, waved, 

 strongly incurved at vein 1 ; claviform defined by black, narrowing 

 to a point at base ; orbicular and reniform with rufous centres and 

 slight yellowish annuli defined by black, the former small, round, 

 the latter an oblique luuule ; a brown medial line incurved from 

 costa to upper edge of reniform, then sinuous ; postmedial line 

 double filled in with yellow, slightly bent outwards below costa, 

 then incurved, minutely waved and with short black streaks beyond 

 it on the veins with white points on them, some ochreous points 

 beyond it on costa. ; an apical ochreous patch with the subterminal 

 line arising from it formed of small ochreous spots angled outwards 

 between veins 4, 3 and bent outwards to tornus ; a terminal series 

 of minute black lunules defined on inner side by slight ochreous 



