510 xorrrnu:. 



them ; the underside with the costal and terminal areas to vein 3 

 irrorated with fuscous, a black discoidal lunule, postmedial waved 

 line excurved below costa and incurved below vein 3, and terminal 

 series of small black lunules. 



Hab. Brazil, Castro Parana, type t in Coll. D. Jones. Exp. 

 24 millim. 



4227. Monodes grata. 



Elaphria, grata, Hiibn. Ziitr. p. If), ff. 71, 72 (1827) ; Smith, Cat, Noct. N. 



Am. p. 151. 

 Hadena rasilis, Morr. Proc. Eost. Soc. N. H. xvii. p. 158 (1874). 

 Atethmia subusta, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Ilet. i. p. 200 (part., nee Hiibu.). 



Head, thorax, and abdomen red-brown mixed with grey ; tegulre 

 with whitish line near tips. Fore Aving red-brown irrorated with 

 grey and fuscous, the veins with slight black streaks ; subbasal 

 line defined by white on inner side, from costa to submedian fold ; 

 autemedial line double filled in with white, oblique, slightly bent 

 inwards to inner margin ; orbicular and reniform with black centres 

 and white annuli, the former small, round, the latter narrow and 

 strongly constricted at middle ; a faint diffused obliquely curved 

 medial line ; postmedial line defined by white on outer side, 

 excurved from below costa to vein 5, then incurved, some whitish 

 points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line pale defined by fuscous 

 suffusion on inner side, excurved below vein 7 and at middle and 

 bent outwards to tornus ; a series of minute white points at the 

 extremities of the veins. Hind wing yellowish white tinged witli 

 brown especially on terminal area from apex to vein 2 ; cilia with 

 a fine white line at base : the underside white irrorated with 

 reddish brown, a black discoidal spot and indistinct diffused post- 

 medial line and subterminal band. 



Hah. U.S.A., Maryland, Florida, Kansas, Mississippi, 2 J , 1 5 , 

 Texas; Mexico, Jalapa (Trujillo), 1 6 , 1 2 ; Panama, Chiriqui 

 (Champion), 1 rf , Godman-Salvin Coll. Exp. 26 millim. 



Larva. Head shining pale brown with a curved vertical black 

 band on each lobe. Body robust, joints 5 and 12 enlarged; 

 obscure brown, mottled with darker : a narrow white dorsal line ; 

 a white subdorsal speck on joint 5 and a brown one on 6 ; a slender 

 waved black lateral line, outlining the substigmatal band above. — 

 H. G. D. 



4228. Monodes stenonephra, n. sp. (Plate CXXXV. fig. 31.) 



Pcrigea concisa, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 481 (part., nee Wlk.). 



c? . Head and thorax grey mixed with brown ; palpi black, 

 whitish at tips ; pectus and legs fuscous grey, the tarsi with slight 

 pale rings. Fore wing grey irrorated with fuscous, the terminal 

 area tinged with reddish brown; subbasal line represented by 



