510 



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them ; the iinclersidc with the costal and terminal areas to vein 3 

 irrorated with fuscous, a black discoidal lunule, postmedial waved 

 line excurved below costa and incurved below vein 3, and terminal 

 series of small black lunules. 



Hah. Brazil, Castro Paraila, type f in Coll. D. Jones. Exp. 

 24 millim. 



4227. Monodes grata. 



Elaphria grata, Hiibn. Ziitr. p. 16, ff. 71, 72 (1827) ; Smitli, Cat. Noct. N. 



Am. p. 151. 

 Hadena rasilis, Morr. Proc. Post. Soc. N. H. xvii. p. 158 (1874). 

 Atethmia suhusta, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 290 (part., nee Hiibn.). 



Head, thorax, and abdomen red-brown mixed with grey ; teg'ulse 

 with whitish line near tips. Fore wing red-brown irrorated Avith 

 grey and fuscous, the veins with slight black streaks ; subbasal 

 line defined by white on inner side, from costa to submedian fold ; 

 antemedial line double filled in with white, oblique, slightly bent 

 inwards to inner margin ; orbicular and reniform with black centi'es 

 and white annuli, the former small, round, the latter narrow and 

 strongly constricted at middle ; a faint diffused obliquely curved 

 medial line ; postmedial line defined by white on outer side, 

 excurved from below costa to vein 5, then incurved, some whitish 

 points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line pale defined by fuscous 

 suffusion on inner side, excurved below vein 7 and at middle and 

 bent outwards to tornus ; a series of minute white points at the 

 extremities of the veins. Hind wing yellowish white tinged with 

 brown especially on terminal area from apex to vein 2 ; cilia with 

 a fine white line at base ; the underside white irrorated with 

 reddish brown, a black discoidal spot and indistinct diff'used post- 

 medial line and subterminal baud. 



Hah. U.S.A., Maryland, Florida, Kansas, Mississippi, 2 cj" , 1 $ , 

 Texas; Mexico, Jalapa (Trujillo), lj,l$; Panama, Chiriqui 

 (^Champion), 1 J, Godman-Salvin Coll. Kvp. 26 millim. 



Larva. Head shining pale brown with a curved vertical black 

 band on each lobe. Body robust, joints 5 and 12 enlarged; 

 obscure brown, mottled with darker : a narrow white dorsal line ; 

 a white subdorsal speck on joint 5 and a brown one on 6 ; a slender 

 waved black lateral line, outlining the substigmatsi band above. — 

 H. G. D. 



4228. Monodes stenonephra, n. sp. (Plate CXXXV. fig, 31.) 

 Perigea concisa, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 481 (part,, nee Wlk.). 



(^ . Head and thorax grey mixed with brown ; palpi black, 

 whitish at tips ; pectus and legs fuscous grey, the tarsi with slight 

 pale rings. Fore wing grey irrorated with fuscous, the terminal 

 area tinged with reddish brown ; subbasal line represented by 



