502 noctuid^:. 



line, which is double, minutely waved, angled inwards on vein 1 ; 

 claviform represented by an oblique red-brown shade ; orbicular 

 very small, bar-shaped, pure white defined by black; reniform 

 oblique bar-shaped, angled slightly inwards on subcostal nervure, 

 its centre blue-black mixed with grey and defined by grey at side?, 

 a chocolate-brown patch before it in cell and another beyond it 

 extending to the postmedial line ; an oblique black line from lower 

 angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line double, except on 

 inner area, very obliquely excurved from costa to vein 5, then 

 inwardly oblique to vein 2 and erect to inner margin, a blue-black 

 and greyish patch beyond it on costal area with some small white 

 spots on costa; subterminal line very indistinct, diffused, pale, 

 strongly defined by black suffusion on inner side towards costa and 

 at middle, angled outwards at vein 7 and below 4, angled inwards 

 to the postmedial line at discal fold, almost obsolete towards 

 torn us ; the veins of terminal area slightly streaked with blackish 

 and with white points at their extremities ; cilia brown with 

 slight whitish lines at base and middle. Hind wing brown, 

 greyish towards base ; cilia with a fine white line at base ; the 

 underside whitish irrorated with brown, the terminal area suffused 

 with brown, a black discoidal lunule, indistinct diffused oblique 

 medial line, and diffused waved postmedial line incurved below 

 vein 4. 



Hah. Brazil, Sao Paulo (D. Jones), 1 § , Castro Parana. Exp. 

 24 miliim. 



*4214. Monodes cenicienta. (Plate CXXXV. fig. 19.) 



Acronycta cenicienta, Dogn. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xli. p. 407 (1897). 



5 . Head and thorax grey mixed with black ; palpi blackish ; 

 tarsi blackish with pale rings; abdomen brownish grey. Fore 

 wing bluish grey irrorated with fuscous and suffused with fuscous 

 hiown on basal and medial areas and before the subterminal line ; 

 the subbasal line indistinct, waved, from costa to submedian fold, 

 defined by grey on outer side ; the antemedial line oblique, double, 

 waved, filled in with grey ; orbicular a small white spot defined 

 by blackish ; reniform very indistinct, blackish, defined partially 

 by grey ; the postmedial line defined on both sides by whitish, bent 

 outwards below costa to just beyond the reniform, excurved to 

 vein 4, then incurved, and with a series of blackish points on the 

 veins beyond it ; the subterminal line grey, excurved at vein 7, 

 angled inwards in discal fold and outwards at vein 4, then 

 incurved ; a prominent series of small terminal black lunules. 

 Hind wing greyish white, the terminal area suffused with fuscous ; 

 cilia white ; the underside white irrorated with brown on costal 

 and terminal areas, a small black discoidal spot and curved fuscous 

 postmedial line obsolescent towards inner margin. 



Hah. Ectadok, Loja, type f $ in Coll. Dognin. Exp. 30 miliim. 



