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Fore wing whitish suffused with brown and irrorated with fuscous, 

 the inner area yellowish white tinged with rufous to the postmedial 

 line, the veins of terminal area streaked with black ; a blackish 

 patch on inner area before the antemedial line, which is very 

 indistinct, oblique from costa to submedian fold, then inwardly 

 oblique ; claviform minute, yellow defined by brown ; orbicular 

 absent ; reniform a narrow oblique lunule defined by brown ; a 

 slight dark spot on middle of inner margin ; a very indistinct dark 

 medial line, diffused from costa to the reniform, and waved from 

 lower angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line blackish filled 

 in with whitish, excurved from below costa to vein 4, then incurved 

 and again excurved below submedian fold, some whitish points 

 beyond it on costa ; an oblique whitish patch from apex, with the 

 rather diffused oblique blackish subterminal line arising from it ; 

 another rather diffused blackish line before termen with slight 

 yellowish spots beyond it ; a terminal series of black points ; cilia 

 blackish and grey with a fine white line at base. Hind wing white, 

 the termen tinged with brown except towards tornus ; cilia white, 

 brown at tips towards apex ; the underside with the costal area 

 irrorated with brown, a small black discoidal spot, indistinct post- 

 medial line with minute black streaks on the veins and terminal 

 series of small black spots. 



Hah. Mexico, Orizaba (Sclums), 1 $ . Exp. 20 millim. 



4199. Monodes basistigma. (Plate CXXXV. fig. 6.) 

 Erastria basistigma, Wit. xv. 1762 (1858). 



$ . Head and base of tegulae pale fulvous ; sides of palpi and 

 frons with some black ; tegulce with black medial line and white 

 tips ; thorax white mixed with brown and black ; pectus and legs 

 pale fulvous, fore tibia? black, the tarsi black ringed with white; 

 abdomen whitish suffused with brown. Fore wing white tinged 

 with pale brown ; the basal area suffused with brown and black, 

 bounded by a curved black line retracted to inner margin ; sub- 

 basal line black defined by white on inner side, strongly angled 

 inwards in cell and retracted to vein 1 ; antemedial line pale brown, 

 double, waved, oblique, with black points at costa and inner 

 margin ; claviform and orbicular absent ; reniform white defined 

 by black except above and with waved brown line in middle, a 

 narrow oblique lunule with irregular outline ; medial line double, 

 irregularly waved, oblique, angled inwards on median nervure, the 

 medial area beyond it suffused with brown ; postmedial line double 

 rilled in with white, the inner lino black, the outer brown, with 

 small black spot at costa, slightly bent outwards below costa, then 

 minutely waved, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, with small 

 black spot before it beyond the reniform and semicircular brown 

 patch beyond it on costa with white points at costa ; subterminal 

 line white, slightly defined by brown on inner side and by a black 



