566 uoctuid-e. 



beyond it on costa on a diffused blackish patch ; subterminal line 

 very indistinct, pale, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and 

 excurved at middle ; a terminal series of black points; cilia with 

 fine pale line at base. Hind wing reddish brown ; a faint dark 

 discoidal spot ; a sinuous postmedial line and fine terminal line ; 

 cilia rufous with a fine pale line at base ; the underside whitish 

 irrorated with black, the terminal half suffused with rufous, a 

 black discoidal spot, curved postmedial line, and terminal series 

 of points. 



Hub. Mexico, Jalapa (Schaus), type f $ in U.S. Nat. Mus. 

 Exp. 20 millim. 



Sect. II. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from cell ; metathorax without crest. 



A. Fore wing without black streak in submedian fold on medial 



area marita. 



B. Fore wing with black streak in submedian fold on medial 



area guarama. 



*4309. Micromonodes marita. (Plate CXXXVII. fig. 16.) 

 Photedes marita, Schaus, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxx. p. 157 (1904). 



$ . Head and thorax whitish suffused with red-brown and with 

 a few dark brown scales ; palpi whitish, blackish at sides except 

 at tips ; mid and hind tibiae with blackish patches at sides at 

 extremities; abdomen grey-white, dorsally suffused with brown, 

 the anal tuft pale rufous. Fore wing whitish mostly suffused 

 with red-brown, the inner area paler ; subbasal line double, 

 waved, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line indistinctly 

 double, slightly excurved below costa and inwards in cell, then 

 excurved, oblique and obsolescent towards inner margin ; orbicular 

 represented by a faint oblique yellowish mark ; reniform very 

 narrow and indistinct, with brown centre and whitish annulns ; 

 postmedial line blackish defined by whitish on outer side, strongly 

 bent outwards below costa, then very minutely waved, excurved 

 to vein 4, then very oblique, some white points with brown 

 streaks between them beyond it on costa ; an oblique white fascia 

 from apex to postmedial line defined below by a blackish streak ; 

 subterminal line white, angled outwards at vein 7, excurved at 

 middle and forming a white patch at torn us ; a terminal series of 

 small black lunules slightly defined by whitish on inner side ; cilia 

 pale rufous. Hind wing whitish suffused with brown except on 

 basal area ; a slight dark discoidal spot ; a fine brown terminal 

 line ; cilia whitish with a brown lino through them ; the underside 

 whitish, the costal area and terminal area to vein 4 irrorated with 

 brown, a blackish discoidal lunule, rather diffused waved postmedial 

 line, angled inwards at vein 6 and incurved below vein 4, a 

 terminal series of black lunules from apex to vein 2. 



Hub. Brazil. Sao Paulo (D. Jones), type t c? in U.S. Nat. Mus. 

 Exp. 22 millim. 



