516 • NOCTUIDJE. 



middle of costa, a slight discoidal spot ; postmedial line bent out- 

 wards below costa. then minutely waved, incurved below vein 2, 

 some small black lunules on apical part of term en. 



Hob. Brazil, Castro Parana in Coll. D. Jones. Exp. 24 millim. 



*4237. Monodes stenelea. (Plate CXXXVI. fig. 8.) 

 Pho/edes stcnclea, Scbaus, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxx. p. 156 (1904). 



3 . Head and thorax dark brown ; palpi blackish at sides ; pectus 

 and legs grey-brown, the tarsi with pale rings ; abdomen red-brown. 

 Pore wing dark brown, the apical area red-brown with oblique 

 inner edge from postmedial line to termen at vein 2 ; subbasal line 

 represented by a faint grey striga from costa ; antemedial line 

 whitish with black points on its outer edge at the veins, sinuous, 

 oblique from costa to snbmedian fold, then erect ; orbicular absent ; 

 reniform very narrow and oblique, rufous defined by black, strongly 

 on inner side ; postmedial line represented by an oblique white bar 

 from costa to vein 6 defined by blackish on outer side, then indistinct 

 and slightly defined by whitish on outer side, bent inwards to lower 

 extremity of reniform and sinuous to inner margin; an indistinct 

 whitish subterminal line oblique towards costa, excurved at middle 

 and bent outwards to tornus ; some black points on termen ; cilia 

 black-brown intersected with rufous, wholly rufous at apex, Hind 

 wing pale reddish suffused with brown especially on terminal area ; 

 a faint discoidal spot and slight dark terminal line ; the underside 

 paler with dark discoidal spot. 



Hab. Brazil, Sao Paulo in Coll. D. Jones. Exp. 20 millim. 



4238. Monodes costipuncta. (Plate CXXXVI. fig. 9.) 

 Photcdes costipuncta , Scbaus, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxx. p. 156 (1904). 



3 . Head pale purplish, the palpi with black marks at side of 

 2nd joint, the frons with lateral black bars; thorax grey-white 

 tinged with greenish and mixed with purplish brow r n ; pectus 

 whitish ; legs pale purplish mixed with black, the tarsi black ringed 

 with white ; abdomen grey mixed with fuscous, the basal crest 

 tipped with black. Pore wing greyish suffused with pale olive- 

 green, some fuscous suffusion on antemedial area from cell to inner 

 margin, the veins of terminal area slightly streaked with black ; 

 subbasal line black slightly defined by white on outer side, curved, 

 from costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line indistinctly double filled in 

 with whitish, minutely waved, oblique from costa to just below r 

 cell, theu erect ; orbicular and reniform grey with slight white 

 annuli defined by a few dark scales, the former oblique elliptical ; 

 an oblique wedge-shaped black patch from costa to between the 

 stigmata, its extremity bent outwards as a streak on median nervure 

 below the reniform ; an indistinct oblique sinuous line from loAver 

 angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line slightly defined by 

 whitish on outer side, bent outward below costa, excurved to vein 4, 



