MONODES. 501 



area suffused with black, a black discoidal spot and sinuous 

 postmedial line. 



Hah. S.E. Peru, S, Domingo (Ocl^enden), type f c? in Coll. 

 Druce. Kvjy. 22 millim. 



*4212. Monodes thoracica. (Plate CXXXV. fig. 17.) 

 Oliffia thoracica, Schau?, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. vi. p. 113 (1898). 



(S . Head rufous with slight black marks at base of antennae ; 

 teguliB tipped with white ; thorax rufous mixed with white, the 

 patagia black except towards base ; pectus and legs brown mixed 

 with greyish, the tarsi blackish ringed with white ; abdomen 

 ochreous suffused with brown and with tufts of long yellowish- 

 white hair from the basal stigmata. Fore wing red-brown, the 

 costal area to subterminal line, the cell and areas below its base 

 and beyond and below its extremity suffused with blackish ; 

 subbasal line represented by double striae filled in with whitish 

 from costa, and a striga from cell ; antemedial line double, filled in 

 with whitish, oblique, waved ; orbicular pure white defined by 

 black, elliptical ; reniform red-brown defined by diffused black, 

 small ; postmedial line black, defined on outer side by white 

 towards costa, bent outwards below costa, then minutely dentate, 

 with black and white points beyond it on the veins and streaks 

 below veins 7 and 5, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, some white 

 points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line indistinct, pale, 

 slightly excurved below vein 7 and at middle and with minute 

 dentate black mark on inner side below vein 4 ; some minute 

 white points at middle of termen ; cilia with an indistinct dark 

 line through them. Hind wing white tinged with brown, the 

 terminal area suffused with brown ; a slight discoidal striga and 

 diffused curved postmedial line ; cilia whitish with a brown line 

 near base ; the underside white, the costal area irrorated with 

 brown, a blackish discoidal lunule ; sinuous rather maculate 

 postmedial line and subterminal patches below apex and at discal 

 and submedian folds. 



Hah. Brazil, Sao Paulo {D. Jones)., type t d in U.S. Nat. Mus. 

 Exjp. 34 millim. 



4213. Monodes castrensis. (Plate CXXXV. fig. 18.) 

 Lithacodia castrensis, Scliaus, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxx. p. 161 (1904). 



5 . Head and thorax brown mixed with fuscous and grey, the 

 upper edge of patagia and metathoracic crest blackish, the tarsi 

 ringed with white ; abdomen fuscous brown mixed with grey, the 

 dorsal crest rufous. Fore wing pale brown irrorated with dark 

 red-brown ; a large blue-black patch on antemedial area from 

 costa to submedian fold with a small blackish spot below it on vein 1 

 and a short black streak in submedian fold before the antemedial 



