498 NOCTUID.&. 



*4207. Monodes leucostigma. (Plate CXXXV. fig. 13.) 

 Monodes leucostigma, Druce, A. M. N. H. (8) i. p. 299 (1908). 



2 . Head yellowish white ; palpi, antennas and thorax red- 

 brown ; abdomen greyish suffused with brown. Fore wing red- 

 brown with some blackish suffusion on ante- and postmedial areas ; 

 subbasal line blackish, curved, from costa to vein 1 ; antcmedial 

 line indistinct, dark, angled inwards on vein 1 ; orbicular white 

 defined by some black scales, narrow, oblique ; reniform with 

 slight fuscous centre and whitish annulus, narrow, constricted at 

 middle; postmedial line double, brown filled in with whitish, 

 strongly bent outwards below costa, then oblique, some faint pale 

 points beyond it on costa; a faint oblique whitish shade from 

 apex ; subterminal line only defined bj T the contrast between the 

 postmedial and terminal areas, excurved at middle ; cilia with a 

 fine white line at base. Hind wing whitish tinged with red-brown, 

 especially on terminal area; a slight discoidal lunule ; cilia with a 

 fine white line at base; the underside whitish tinged with brown, 

 the costal half irrorated with red-brown, a brown discoidal lunule 

 and sinuous postmedial line. 



Hah. S.E. Peku, Oconeque (Oclcendeu), type f § in Coll. Druce. 

 Exp. 22 millim. 



4208. Monodes algama. (Plate CXXXV. fig. 14.) 

 Bryophila algama, Sehaus, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. rsx. p. 151 (1904). 



Head and thorax black mixed with white, the vertex of head, 

 tegulae, and patagia with white patches, the last and metathoracic 

 crest with some pink scales ; tibiae and tarsi ringed with white ; 

 abdomen grey tinged with brown, the ventral surface black. Fore 

 wing ochreous white, suffused in parts with brown, especially on 

 medial area and medial part of terminal area, the veins irrorated 

 with black scales ; the costal half of basal area black crossed by 

 the curved ochreous subbasal line ; antemedial line black defined 

 by ochreous white on inner side and pure white towards costa, 

 angled outwards below costa, then oblique, sinuous ; orbicular 

 white defined by black, oblique, its lower extremity acute ; reni- 

 form with red-brown and black centre and white annulus defined 

 by black, constricted at middle and angled inwards on median 

 nervure to near orbicular ; a black patch in cell between the 

 stigmata and a black spot beyond the reniform ; a slight curved 

 blackish medial line ; postmedial line black, defined by white on 

 outer side, very oblique from costa to vein 5, excurved to vein 4, 

 then incurved and crossed by minute black streaks on veins 3, 2, 1, 

 a black patch beyond it on costal area with white points on costa ; 

 subterminal line indistinct, whitish, inwardly oblique from costa to 

 vein 6, then sinuous and with two small black spots before it at 

 middle ; a terminal series of slight brown striae ; cilia reddish 

 brown mixed with whitish. Hind wing whitish tinged with 



