486 NOCTDIDiE. 



at extremity ; orbicular with pale brownish centre and white 

 annulus deiined by black, irregularly rounded and produced on 

 outer side ; reniform slightly defined by blackish, with white 

 annulus to upper part and black in lower, twice slightly constricted 

 at middle ; a slight waved medial line, oblique from costa to sub- 

 costal nervure ; postmcdial line represented by black points towards 

 costa, then punctiform, with two series of black points beyond it, 

 bent outwards below costa and incurved below vein 5; traces of a 

 dark subterminal line slightly excurved below costa ; a whitish 

 mark on costa before apex ; cilia dark brown. Hind wing fuscous 

 brown, the cilia white with dark line near base ; the underside 

 whitish irrorated with fuscous, the costal half suffused with rufous, 

 a black discoidal spot and curved crenulate postmedial line. 



Hah. BEA.ZIL, Sao Paulo, tj'pe f in Coll. D. Jones. Exp. 

 26 millim. • 



4189. Monodes apicalis. (Plate CXXXIV. fig. 28.) 

 Oligia apicalis, Scbaus, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. vi. p. 113 (1898). 



Head and thorax pale rufous irrorated with a few deep rufous 

 scales; palpi deep rufous ; tarsi fuscous with pale rings; abdomen 

 pale rufous. Fore wing pale rufous slightly irrorated with blackish, 

 a triangular fuscous brow^n patch on terminal area from costa near 

 apex to tornus and with its r.pex curved up to upper angle of cell, 

 the area above it pale brown and with a pale rufous apical spot on 

 it ; an indistinct d;).rk waved subbasal line from costa to submedian 

 fold ; antemedial line very indistinct, oblique, waved ; claviform 

 represented by a black point at its extremity ; orbicular slightly 

 defined \)\ brown, round ; reniform absent ; postmedial line in- 

 distinct, double, oblique at costa, then minutely waved and 

 produced to black points at the veins, slightly incurved below 

 vein 4, some pale points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line 

 represented by slight pale rufous marks defined on inner side by 

 slight dentate black marks, angled outwards at vein 7, excurved at 

 middle and bent outwards to tornus ; a terminal series of white 

 points at the veins and a fine white line at base of cilia. Hind 

 wing rufous, the cilia with fine white line at base ; the underside 

 pale rul'ous irrorated and suffused with red-brown, a dark discoidal 

 lunule and indistinct crenulate postmedial line. 



Hah. Venezuela, Aroa, 1 S ; Bkazil, Castro Paraiia (D. Jones), 

 1 $ . Exp. 6 32, 5 P)6 millim. 



4190. Monodes pallescens, n. sp. (Plate CXXXIV. fig. 29.) 



5. Head and tegulse dark red- brown; thorax ochreous white 

 with some dark brown on base of patagia and prothorax and a 

 large patch on metathorax : pectus and legs red-brown, the tarsi 

 with pale rings ; abdomen dark greyish brown. Pore Aving greyish 

 white slightly irrorated with rufous extending on costa to medial 



