MMN.MM 3. 



193 



bar towards inner margin, minutely waved, excurved below vein 7 

 and at middle ; a terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia blaok- 

 brown, white at apex and middle. Hind wing whitish suffused 

 with brown, the terminal area darker; cilia white ; the underside 

 white, the costal area and terminal area to vein 2 rufous slightly 

 in-orated with black, a black discoidal point with faint dark bar 

 above it from costa, a crcnulatc post medial line from costa to vein 5 

 with black points at the veins. 



Hob. Jamaica, 1 6 type, Newcastle, 1 S • Exp. 24 millim. 



*4200. Monodes hemileuca. (Plate CXXXV. tig. 7.) 



Monocles hemileuca, D. Jones, Trans. Ent. Soc. 190S, p. 160. 



g. Head and thorax white faintly tinged with yellow; palpi 

 and antennas rufous ; pectus, legs, and abdomen white tinged with 

 rufous. Fore wing white slightly irrorated with pale rufous, the 

 terminal half suffused with rufous, its inner edge running obliquely 

 from middle of costa to inner margin at postmedial line ; very in- 

 distinct, irregularlv waved, oblique antemedial and medial rufous 

 lines ; orbicular absent ; reniform oblique, white, rather constricted 

 at middle, with some dark brown scales on its inner edge and 

 diffused dark streak from it to postmedial line, which is red-brown 

 defined by white on outer side, oblique from costa to upper edge of 

 reuiform, then strongly angled outwards in discal fold, incurved to 

 lower edge of reniform and again excurved ; a diffused red-brown 

 subterminal line excurved below vein 7 and at middle, with a round 

 white patch beyond it at apex defined by red-brown on outer side ; 

 cilia pure white at base. Hind wing whitish suffused with reddish 

 brown, a slight brown discoidal bar ; cilia white with a slight 

 brown line through them : the underside white irrorated with 

 brown, the costal area tinged with rufous, a small discoidal spot 

 and curved minutely waved postmedial line with brownish marks 

 beyond it at discal and submedian folds. 



Hub. Brazil, Sao Paulo, type t in Coll. D. Jones. Exp. 24 millim. 



4201. Monodes venustula. 



Noctua venustula, Hiibn. Beitr. ii. 3, p. 78, pi. 4. f. z (1790^ ; id. Eur. 



Schmett., Noct, f. 294 ; Dap. Lep. Fr., Suppl. iii. p. 565, pi. 47. f. 5 ; 



Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Hanst. iii. p. 118; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 230. 

 Tyralis hybnerana, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii. 2, p. 2247 (1793). 



Head and tegulae rufous, the latter with slight whitish line near 

 base and whitish tips ; thorax white tinged with pink, the patagia 

 with slight curved brown medial line, the pro- and metathoracic 

 crests mixed with brown; pectus and legs whitish tinged with 

 brown, the fore legs red-brown ; abdomen whitish suffused with 

 red-brown except at base. Fore wing grey-white suffused with 



