MONODES. 503 



4215. Monodes stelligera. (Plate CXXXV. fig. 20.) 

 Microcoria stelligera, Schaus, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxi. p. 1224 (1894). 



$ . Head and thorax dark brown mixed with white and pale 

 yellow; palpi with white rings at extremities of joints ; lower 

 part of Irons and basal joint of antennae white; tarsi dark brown 

 ringed with white: abdomen dark brown mixed with whitish, tho 

 ventral surface yellowish. Fore wing dark brown mixed with 

 grey-white ; subbasal lino represented by small yellow spots below 

 costa and cell with another spot beyond them in cell, the ante- 

 medial line by small spots below costa and cell and on inner 

 margin ; orbicular and reniform round yellow spots, the former 

 small, the latter moderate ; postmedial line with small yellow spot 

 on costa, then represented by a double series of points and spot in 

 submedian fold, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, 

 then incurved, some points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line 

 represented by small obliquely placed yellow spots on and below 

 costa, then by a series of points and an irregular mark at tornus, 

 the point below vein 7 nearer termen ; a terminal series of points. 

 Hind wing pale brown with a golden gloss ; the underside grey- 

 white irrorated with brown, a brown discoidal spot, rather diffused 

 curved postmedial line, and diffused subterminal band. 



Hub. Brazil, Castro Parana (D. Jones), 1 $ . Exp. 30 millim. 



*4216. Monodes mesomela. (Plate CXXXV. fig. 21.) 

 Monodes mesomela, Dogn. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. li. p. 236 (1907). 



cS ■ Head and thorax grey mixed with fuscous brown ; palpi black, 

 greyish at tips ; tarsi black ringed with white ; abdomen grey 

 suffused with fuscous. Fore wing grey slightly tinged with 

 rufous and irrorated with fuscous ; subbasal line represented by 

 black poiuts below costa and cell ; an incurved black mark defined 

 by whitish on inner side on antemedial area from submedian fold 

 to inner margin ; traces of an oblique waved whitish antemedial 

 line ; claviform represented by a diffused black streak ; orbicular 

 and reniform small, whitish, incompletely defined by black, the 

 former tinged with yellowish, rather oblique elliptical, the latter 

 with fuscous lunule in centre, a quadrate black patch between 

 them ; traces of a sinuous line from lower angle of cell to inner 

 margin ; postmedial line indistinct, slightly defined by whitish on 

 outer side, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then 

 incurved to lower edge of reniform, some white points with black 

 streaks between them beyond it on costa ; subterminal line whitish 

 defined by fuscous suffusion on inner side, with oblique black 

 streak beyond it below apex ; a terminal series of small black 

 lunules defined by whitish on inner side ; cilia fuscous and grey. 

 Hind wing white tinged with brown ; a fine black terminal line ; 

 cilia with a slight dark line near base ; the underside irrorated 



