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b^o. Fore wing with the reniform erect, 



brown defined by black at sides tliionaris. 



f^. Fore wing with the orbicular absent, 

 ftio. Fore, wing with the ante- and post- 

 medial areas green virescens. 



iio. Fore wing dark brown, the apical area 



red-brown steiiclea. 



b^. Fore wing with oblique medial wedge- 

 shaped black patch from costa costipuncta. 



b'l. Fore wing with ante- and postmedial 

 oblique wedge-shaped black patches from 

 costa ditrigona. 



4168. Monodes conjugata. (Plate CXXXIV. fig. 9.) 



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



ii. p. 514. 

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



Palpi and frons dark brown ; vertex of head and tegulse brownish 

 ochreous, the latter tipped with black; thorax dark brown, the 

 patagia ochreous at base, the vertex of thorax with some ochreous ; 

 abdomen ochreous white suffused with brown except at base. Fore 

 wing with the 'costal area broadly ochreous, narrowing to apex, 

 with the costal edge dark, and slight brownish streaks in the inter- 

 spaces beyond the cell, the inner area rufous tinged with greyish 

 fuscous, the terminal area fuscous brown except at inner margin ; 

 a diffused blackish streak on base of median nervure ; antemedial 

 line double, excurved, from the ochreous costal area to inner margin ; 

 orbicular and reniform with ochreous centres tinged with fuscous 

 and white, defined by black, open above, the former very narrow 

 and oblique, its lower extremity confluent with the latter which 

 extends to well below the cell and has its outer edge strongly 

 indented ; an obliqiie ochreous streak defined by black and with 

 brownish centre from lower edge of orbicular to submedian fold at 

 postmedial line, which is indistinct, double, oblique from vein 6 to 

 inner margin, angled outwards at vein 1 ; some ochreous points 

 on terminal part of costa ; a terminal series of slight black striae 

 with ochreous points and striae on their inner side ; cilia fuscous 

 with slight pale line at base. Hind wing whitish tinged with 

 fuscous brown especially in female ; a faint dark discoidal lunule ; 

 a terminal series of dark strise ; cilia brownish white with a slight 

 dark line through them ; the underside ochreous white irrorated 

 with brown, thickly on costal area, a large black discoidal lunule, 

 diffused waved postmedial line, and terminal series of small black 

 lunules. 



Hah. Punjab, Simla (Harford), 1 c? , 1 $ type albicostata ; 

 SiKHiM. Exp. 24-28 millim. Type f in Mus. Berlin. 



4169, Monodes fissistigma. (Plate CXXXIV. fig. 10.) 

 Xanthoptera fissistigma, Hmpsn. J. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. xi. p. 446 (1898). 



Head and thorax yellowish white slightly mixed with rufous ; 



