NE0M0X0DES. — MICROMOXODES. 565 



a brown terminal line ; cilia white mixed witli brown at base ; 

 the underside with the costal area irrorated with red-brown, a 

 diffused waved medial line from costa to lower angle of cell and 

 postmedial line from costa to vein 6. 



Bab. Brazil, Sao Paulo (D. Jones), type t J in U.S. Xat. Mus. 

 Exp. 22 millim. 



Genus MICROMONODES, nov. 



Type, M. guarama. 



Proboscis 'fully developed; palpi upturned, slender, the 2nd joint reaching 

 to vertex of head and slightly fringed with scales in front, the 3rd ra 

 long; Irons smooth; eyes Large, round; antennas of male ciliated; thorax 

 clothed chiefly with scales ami without crests, or the metathorax with 

 depressed crest; tibiae slightly fringed with hair; build slender; abdomen 

 without crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved 

 and not crenulate ; veins 3 aud 5 from near angle, of cell ; from upper angle; 

 7, 8, 9 stalked ; 10, 11 from eel!. Hind wing with veins ;;. 4 from angle of 

 cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; <j, 7 from upper angle 

 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



Sect. I. Hind wing with veins 3 4, stalked ; metathorax with depressed 

 crest. 



*430S. Microinonodes mochensis. 

 Pkotedes mochensis, Schaus, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxx. p. 157 (1904). 



$ . Head and thorax whitish tinged with red-brown, the meta- 

 thoracic crest black ; palpi black-brown, the extremity of 2nd 

 joint and the 3rd joint pale rufous with black points at tips ; pectus 

 and legs whitish tinged with rufous, the fore tibiae blackish, the 

 tarsi blackish ringed with white ; abdomen red-brown with slight 

 white segmental lines and white band at base of anal tuft, which 

 is black, the ventral surface whitish at base. Fore wing red- 

 brown with slight blackish irroiation, the basal area whitish, the 



Fig. 161. — Microinonodes mochensis, $ 



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autemedial and terminal areas tinged with fuscous ; subbasal line 

 represented by a slight whitish striga from costa ; antemedial line 

 double, black tilled in with whitish, inwardly oblique and almost 

 straight ; orbicular represented by a black point, the reniform by 

 an elliptical black spot ; a double rather diffused and slightly 

 sinuous blackish medial line ; postmedial line black defined by 

 whitish on outer side, oblique from ccsta to vein 6, excurved to 

 vein 5, then oblique and slightly sinuous, some whitish points 



