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medial line oblique and blackish from costa to upper angle of cell, 

 then faint, brownish, waved ; a slight black streak beyond lower 

 angle of cell; postmedial line blackish slightly defined by whitish 

 on outer side, bent outwards below costa, very oblique and minutely 

 dentate to vein 6, then more strongly dentate, strongly incurved 

 below vein 3 and excurved below submedian fold, some blackish 

 points beyond it on costa ; subtcrminal line very faint, excurved 

 below vein 7 and at middle, then incurved ; a terminal series of 

 blackish points. Hind wing white tinged with brown ; a slight 

 dark terminal line ; cilia white ; the underside white slightly 

 irrorated Avith fuscous, a small blackish discoidal spot and indistinct 

 curved postmedial line. 



Hah. U.S.A., jN'ew York, Evans Center (Grote), 1 $, Wisconsin, 

 1 2 i'JV^- Exp. 32 millim. 



Genus MONODES. 



Type. 



Monocles, Gruen. Noet. i. p. 240 (1852) micicolora. 



Alpesa, Wlk. XV. 1662(1858) vlUicoata. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi uphiriied, rather slender, the 2ud joint 

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

 antennse of male typically ciliated ; build slender ; head and thorax clothed ch iefly 

 with scales, the pro- and inetathorax with typically slight spreading crests ; tibiiB 

 moderately fringed with hair ; abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Fore 

 wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and hardly crenulate; 

 veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anas- 

 tomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 1 1 from cell. Hind wing 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. 



Sect. I. Antenna3 of male strongly serrate. 



4153. Monodes cuprescens, n. sp. 



Head and thorax whitish mixed with brown; sides of palpi and 

 frons blackish ; tarsi fuscous with slight pale rings ; abdomen white 

 faintly tinged with brown. Fore wing white largelj' suffused and 

 irrorated with cupreous red-brown ; subbasal line white, oblique,, 

 from costa to submedian fohl ; antemedial line brown defined by 

 white on inner side, curved, minutely dentate below costa and angled 



Fig. 130. — Monodes cuprescens, (^ , |. 



inwards on vein 1 ; claviform faintly defined by white at extremity; 

 orbicular whitish, undefined, round; reniform with white centre 

 defined by brown and while annulus ; a brown medial shade from 

 costa to below cell ; postmedial line brown defined by white on 



