432 N0CXTJID3;. 



the outer line very indistinct, obsolete towards costa, then oblique, 

 strongly dentate to vein 3, then less strongly ; traces of a pale 

 waved subterminal line slightly defined by brown on inner side, 

 excurved below vein 7 and at middle; a terminal series of small 



Fig. 77. — Macronodua onusta, 



black lunnles. Hind wing greyish tinged with fuscous brown, the 

 terminal area broadly suffused with fuscous ; a waved blackish 

 terminal line ; a pale line at base of cilia ; the underside whitish, 

 the costal area fuscous irrorated with white, the terminal area 

 irrorated with fuscous, a slight discoidal spot and curved postmedial 

 line slightly incurved at discal fold. 



Hah. Canada, Ottawa (Gibson), 2 5 ; U.S.A., Maine, New York, 

 New Jersey, Illinois, 1 5 type, Iowa. Eity. 34-66 millim. 



Larva. Head bilobed, dark brown, rough. Body cyhndrical, 

 translucent, sordid whitish, reddish shaded over the back. Cervical 

 shield and anal plate large, pale brown ; spiracles black. 



Food-plant, roots of lily ; borer. — H. G. D. 



Genus MONOPTYA, no v. 



Type, M. leucohasis. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, tbe 2nd joint reaching to about 

 vertex of bead and moderately scaled, tbe 3rd ratlier loug ; frons smooth ; 

 eyes large, rounded ; antenriEe of female almost simple ; head and thorax 

 clothed chiefly with scales, the pro- and metatborax with spreading crests ; 

 tibiae moderately fringed with hair ; abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. 

 Fore wing broad, the apex rounded, tlie termen slightly waved ; veins 3 and 5 

 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 

 to form the areole ; 11 from (tell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of 

 cell ; 6 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 

 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



3270. Monoptya leucobasis. 



EiiqAexia kucobasis, Hmpsn. A. M. N. H. (7) xiv. p. 167 (1904). 



5 . Head pale rufous and whitish mixed with some black ; 

 thorax fuscous black with some rufous and whitish on tegulse and 

 vertex ; pectus and legs black mixed with rufous and whitish, the 

 tarsi with whitish rings ; abdomen fuscous mixed with some whitish. 

 Fore wing black glossed with leaden grey, the lines single, black ; 

 subbasal line slightly angled outwards below costa, at submedian 

 fold connected with a streak from base ; some black irroration on 



