564 



NOCTTJID.E. 



costa and termen to vein 2 tinged with brown, a black discoid al 

 spot and curved rather maculate postmedial line. 



Hah. Brazil, Sao Paulo {D. Jones), ty^e f § in U.S. Xat. Mus. 

 Ex2'). 26 millim. 



Genus NEOMONODES, nov. 



Type, N. hertha. 



Proboscis aborted, minute ; palpi upturned, tlie 2nd joint reaching vertex 

 of head and slightly fringed with scales in front, the 3rd moderate ; frons 

 smooth; eyes large, round; antennae of male ciliated with tuft of hair in 

 front of basal joint; thorax clothed chiefly with scales, the pro- and mcta- 

 thorax with spreading crests ; build slender ; tihiss. moderately fringed with 

 hair; abdomen with dorsal crests on basal segments. Fore wing with the 

 apex rounded, the termen excised from vein 3 to tornus and not crenulate ; 

 vein 3 from before angle of cell; 5 from above angle ; 6 from below upper 

 angle; 7, 8, 9, stalked; 10, 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from 

 angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from just below middle of difcocellulars ; 6, 7 from 

 upper angle ; 8 anastomosing witii the cell near base only. 



*4307. Neomonodes iDertha. 



Eustrotia hertha, Schans, J. N. Y. Ent. Soc. vi. p. 118 (1898). 



c? . Head and tegulse whitish suffused with red-brown ; thorax 

 ochreous white tinged with rufous ; fore legs suffused with brown; 

 abdomen ochreous. Fore wing with the basal half ochreous tinged 

 with rufous, extending to end of cell and on medial area to sub- 

 median fold, the inner medial area and terminal area grey-brown 

 with some white mixed, the costal edge brown ; subbasal line 

 represented by a slight very oblique brown striga from costa ; 

 antemedial line brown, interrupted below the cell, acutely angled 

 outwards below costa and in cell and above and below vein 1 and 

 inwards on median nervure and vein 1, with a brown streak from 



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Fig. 160. — Keomonodes hertha , (^ . \. 



it to postmedial line above vein 1 ; two minute whitish points 

 on discocellulars defined by fuscous ; postmedial line indistinct, 

 double, strongly bent outwards below costa, then minutely waved, 

 excurved to vein 4, then oblique, filled in with white on inner 

 area ; a diffused oblique white band beyond it from vein 6 to 

 submedian fold ; subapical black streaks on veins 8 and 7 ; sub- 

 terminal line white, arising from below apex and incurved below 

 vein 3; the veins of terminal area slightly streaked with white 

 except at apex; a fine blackish terminal line. Hind wing white, 

 the apical area irrorated with red-brown, a slight discoidal point ; 



