512 NOCTXTID^. 



4230. Moncdes targa. (Plate CXXXVI. fig. 1.) 

 Atethmia targa, Schaus, J. N.Y. Eut. Soc. vi. p. 115 (1898). 



Head and thorax brownish white mixed with red-brown ; palpi 

 red-brown, the extremity of 2nd joint pale ; legs red-brown ; 

 abdomen white tinged with reddish brown. Fore wing violaceous 

 white suffused with red-brown and irrorated with dark brown ; 

 traces of a whitish subbasal line from eosta to siibmedian fold ; 

 antemedial line double, brown filled in with white, slightly curved ; 

 orbicular absent; reniform defined by white, very narrow and 

 constricted at middle ; a slight red-brown medial shade ; postmedial 

 line double, brown filled in with white, bent outwards below costa, 

 excurved to vein 5, then incurved and touching lower extremity of 

 rsniform, some whitish points beyond it on costa ; a straight 

 whitish subterminal line from costa before apex to tornus ; cilia 

 with a fine white line at base. Hind wing pure semihyaline white, 

 the apex very slightly irrorated with fuscous : a fine dark terminal 

 line except towards tornus ; the underside with the costal area and 

 terminal area to vein 3 broadly irrorated with red-brown, a black 

 discoidal point. 



Hah. Brazil, Pdo Janeiro, 5 S , ^ao Paulo (D. Jones), 1 c? ; 

 Paka.gtjat, Sapucay (Foster), 1 J , 1 2 ; Akgentina, Gran Chaco, 

 Florenzia (Wagner), 1 cJ , 1 2 . Exj). 22-28 millim. 



4231. Monodes atrisigna, n. sp. (Plate CXXXVI. fig. 2.) 



5 . Head fuscous tinged with grey ; palpi black, whitish at tips; 

 tegular black at base ; thorax white slightly tinged with brown and 

 with a few black scales ; tarsi brown ringed with white ; abdomen 

 white suffused with fuscous except at base. Fore wing white 

 thickly irrorated with cupreous brown, the terminal area suffused 

 with cupreous brown ; subbasal line represented by a black point 

 on costa; antemedial line indistinct, interrupted, with some black 

 scales on it and a black point at costa, oblique, almost straight, with 

 traces of another line before it on inner area ; a minute black striga 

 in submedian fold before the diffused brown medial line; orbicular 

 white with brownish centre, triangular, defined by black on inner 

 side and with oblong black patch on outer before the reniform, 

 which is small, rather constricted at middle with pale brown centre 

 and white annulus slightly defined by black on outer side, some 

 red-brown suffusion beyond it before the postmedial line, which is 

 white defined by brown on inner side, oblique from costa to vein 6, 

 then erect, slightly sinuous, the whole area beyond it cupreous 

 brown ; an indistinct whitish subterminal line from costa to vein 3, 

 angled inwards below costa, then excurved and with slight blSck 

 streaks beyond it ; a fine white line just before termen ; cilia white 

 mixed with brown and with slight brown line through them. 

 Hind wing white with rather diffused terminal brown band and 



