478 NOCTUID^. 



4177. Monodes monyma. 



Monodes monyma, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 280, pi. 27. f. 8 



(1889). 



Head and thorax pale yellow tinged in parts -with rufous ; palpi 

 •with the 2ud joint fuscous at sides ; legs tinged with fuscous, the 

 tarsi slightly ringed with white ; ahdomen whitish tinged with 

 brown. Fore wing pale yellow, some rufous suffusion on inner 

 area before the antemedial line and on medial area in, beyond and 

 below cell and on inner area, the terminal area fuscous brown with 

 rounded pale yellow apical patch ; antemedial line represented by 

 two slight brown strife from costa and an indistinct double inwardly 

 oblique line from cell to inner margin ; orbicular hardly traceable, 

 very faintly defined by brown, round ; reniform small, defined by 

 brown except above, rather oblique elliptical ; a rather diffused 

 red-brown medial line, oblique from costa to lower angle of cell ; 

 postmedial line brown defined by yellow on outer side, oblique from 

 costa to vein 6, then incurved and excurved in submedian inter- 

 space, some pale points with brown streaks between them beyond 

 it on costa; subterminal line ver}' faint, pale, from the apical patch 

 to inner margin, angled outwards at vein 4 and bent outwards to 

 tornus ; a slight dark terminal line ; a fine pale line at base of cilia. 

 Hind wing j)ure white ; the underside with the costal area tinged 

 with ochreous, a slight dark terminal line on apical half. 



Hah. Mexico, Presidio (Forrer), 1 J; Panama, Chiriqui 

 (Champion), 1 c? , 1 $ type, Godman-Salvin Coll. Exj). 24-26 

 millim. 



4178. Monodes agrotina. (Plate CXXXIV. fig. 18.) 



Cel<ena agrotina, Guen. Noct i. p. 221 (1852). 



Laphygma irientiplaga, Wlk. xv. 1677 (1858) ; Dvar, Cat. Lep. IS". Am. 



p. 112. 

 Celmno quttula, Herr.-Schaff. Zool.-min. Corresp.-blatt. Regensb. xxii. 



p. 154 (1868). 

 Celceno arnoides, Herr.-Schaff. ZooL-iran. Cori'esp.-blatt. Eegensb. xxii. 



p. 154 (1868). 

 Hadena aduncula, Feld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 110. f. 4 (1874). 



Head and basal half of tegulse dark brown ; palpi with ochreous 

 ring at extremity of 2nd joint ; tips of tegulse and thorax ochreous 

 mixed with I'eddish brown; tarsi blackish ringed with ochreous; 

 abdomen ochreous dorsally suffused with dark brown, ventrally 

 irrorated with brown. Pore wing ochreous suffused with dark red- 

 brown, the basal area and the costal half to medial line ochreous 

 irroi'ated with red-brown ; subbasal line dark, angled inwards in 

 cell, outwards on median nervure and ending at vein 1 ; a triangular 

 dark shade before the antemedial line from median nervure to inner 

 margin ; antemedial line double, angled outwards below costa, then 

 oblique, waved ; claviform a small elongate ochreous white mark ; 

 orbicular and reniform small with pale brown centres and ochreous 

 annuli defined by blackish, the former somewhat elongate elliptical, 

 the latter narrow ; an oblique slightly sinuous medial line ; post- 



