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THE MOTHS OF INDIA. 



SUPPLEMENTARY PAPER TO THE VOLUMES IN 



"THE FAUNA OF BRITISH INDIA." 



SERIES IV, PART III. 



By 



SiK Geokge F. Hampson, Bart., f.z.s., f.e.s. 



{Continued from ])o,ge Jf,!i,6 of this Volume.) 



Genus Monodes. 



Type. 



Monodes, Guen. Noct., i., p. 240 (1852) , . . . nucicolom. 



Alpesa, Wlk., xv., 1662 (1856) . . . . . . villicosta. 



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

 reaching to vertex of head, the 3rd moderate ; frons smooth ; eyes large, 

 round ; antennae of male typically ciliated ; build slender : thorax chiefly 

 clothed with scales, the pro and metathorax with typically slight spreading 

 crests ; tibiee moderately fringed with hair ; abdomen with dorsal crest at 

 base only. Forewing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved 

 and hardly crenvilate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper 

 angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole : 11 from celL 

 Hindwing with veins 3"4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of 

 discocellulars ; 6" 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near 

 base only. 



A. Forewing with ochreous costal fascia and apical mark. 



a. Forewing with the reniform with white annulus 



defined by black . . . . . . . . conjwjata. 



b. Forewing with the reniform almost obsolete . . fissistii/ma. 



B. Forewing with the costal fascia grey, the apical 



mark ochreous . . . . . . . . trijissa. 



2537. Monodes conjugata. 



Hydrelia conjugata, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 369 ; Hmpsn., Cat. 



Lep. Phal. B. M., viii, p. 473, pi. 134, f. 9. 

 Eurois albicostata, Hmpsn., Moths Ind. ii, p. 228 (1894). 

 2049 a. Monodes eissistigma. 

 1777 a. Monodes tbifissa. 



Monodes trifissa, Hmpsn., Cat. Lep. Phal. B. M., viii, p. 475, pi. 134, f . 12,. 

 (1909). 



5 . Head and thorax ochreous white tinged with rufous, the extremities 

 of patagia with some black scales and the metathoracic crest blackish ; 

 pectus and legs suffused with fuscous brown ; abdomen ochreous suffused 

 with brown, the basal crest fuscous. Forewing with the base and costal. 



