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MONODES. By Dr. M. Draudt. 
micrommu. M, niicromnia Dyar (42 b) is very similar to costagna, but much smaller, whilst in costagna the upper 
median branch shows a long ochreous stripe, it is absent here, but the space between the two median branches 
is ochreous-yellowish; hindwing much darker. Panama, taken in March till May. 
monyma. M. monyma Drc. (38 f). Forewing light yellow, base of hind-margin and median area irrorated with 
red-brown, the marginal area is blackish brown with a round yellow apical spot, the anterior transverse line 
is indistinctly double, the posterior line brown, distally bordered with yellow; the small maculae are incompletely 
surrounded with brown, between them a faded red-brown median line; the light undulate line is very feeble. 
Hindwing of a pure white. Mexico to Panama. 
commacosta. M. commacosta Dyar (42 c) is very similar to monyma, but smaller and more distinctly marked, 
in the costal part light loam -coloured, below it red-brown towards the margin tinted with purple, in the median 
area black-striped, the distal transverse line narrower, light, straighter. Expanse of wings: 18 mm. Panama. 
agrotina. M. agrotina Gn. {= trientiplaga Wkr., guttula H.-Schaff., arnoides H.-Schdff., aduncula Fldr.) (38 f) 
is a very common, wide-spread species; in the costal part ochre-yellowish, below it more red-brown; the anterior 
transverse line is double, the posterior line only at the costal margin, below it single and distally bordered with 
whitish; the small maculae are finely surrounded with blackish and centred light brown; in the apex there 
is a black dot; before the margin there are small black internerval stripes. Hindwing diaphanous whitish, at 
the margin hued with brown. From Florida to Brazil and Paraguay. This species has been made the type 
of a genus Psilomonodes which has been established in Vol. Ill (p. 217) and to which the palearctic species 
venustula and abbreviata belong. 
proleuca. M. proleuca Hmps. (38 f) is similar to the following species, smaller, more yellowish-white, with 
a large red-brown hindmarginal triangular spot, separated from the likewise triangularly brown marginal area 
by the distal transverse line which is distally very broadly bordered with white; the anterior transverse lines 
and the ring-macula are absent; the reniform macula is very small and narrow, centred with brownish and 
above open; a small white coniform macula is finely surrounded with black; the apex is parted by a curved 
white band. Hindwing light brown, on the veins and margin brownish. Bahamas. 
subobliqua. M. subobliqua Wkr. (= vittata Wkr.. trapezoides Wkr.. mutata Mschlr .) (38 g). Forewing red-brown 
with a broad ochreous costal band; the anterior transverse line is in the brown part a white line, above it a 
black cellular dot, the double posterior transverse line is filled up with a pure white and behind it broadly 
bordered with white; the coniform macula and the small very narrow reniform macula are of a pure white, 
the latter centred with a brown streak. Hindwing yellowish-white, at the margin brownish, in the $ quite 
brown. From Mexico to Brazil and Paraguay. Common. 
jalapensis. M. jalapensis Schs. (= darpa Drc.) (38 g) is very easily discernible by the greyish-brown forewing, in 
the marginal area of a purer brown, with a broad yellowish-white costal-marginal stripe; the transverse stripes 
are rather inconspicuous, the posterior one double, the maculae purple-grey, surrounded with a darker colour 
and centred with brown. Hindwing white, on the veins and margin brownish. Mexico. 
versicolor. M. versicolor Grt. (38g). Forewing dull purple reddish, strewn with brown, in the median area and behind 
it irrorated with a brownish grey, with fine dark transverse lines, the posterior line distally bordered with white 
and with short vein-streaks behind it; the small maculae are indistinctly surrounded with brown, before and 
behind the reniform macula with one black triangular spot each ; the apex is parted by an oblique ochreous spot. 
Hindwing greyish-brown. Canada, United States (New York). -— The dark brown larva is dorsally lighter and 
posteriorly slightly tinted with pink, with a white spot on the 12th ring; it lives on withered leaves of oak. 
chnlccdonia. M. chalcedoiiia Hbn. (= arna Gn., expuncta Wkr., vincta Wkr., irresoluta Wkr., tracta Grt.) (38 g) 
is larger than the preceding, with narrower wings, otherwise very similarly coloured and marked, ochreous- 
brownish, in the basal area and the base of the costal-marginal area more ochreous-yellow, the double transverse 
lines filled up with yellowish, between and behind the small yellow-ringed maculae with a black streak on the 
discal fold; the light apical spot is more brownish, not so yellowish-white as in versicolor. Hindwing diaphanous 
white, at the margin brownish. In the $ the basal area and the base of the costal-marginal area is irrorated 
with brown and not lighter. Canada to New Mexico. 
pnrpnsi. M. purpusi sp. n. (38 g) forms the transition from the preceding species to the following; the ground¬ 
colour is an entirely monotonous greyish brown with a reddish reflection, finely marked with blackish as in 
festivoides, without any white behind the postmedian line which is much straighter and extends much more 
obliquely to the hind-margin than in chalcedonia, the black vein-streaks behind it are quite indistinct, the 
maculae much smaller than in festivoides. Hindwing darker greyish-brown than in the two species. Type in 
the Coll. Purpus in the Berlin Museum from Rascon (S. Luis Potosi, Mexico). 
festivoides. M. festivoides Gn. (= cephalica Btlr.) (38 h) is likewise a very similar species, but on the grey ground 
irrorated with brown, the double transverse lines filled up with whitish, the maculae whitish, strewn with a 
brownish grey, before and behind the reniform macula blackish irroration; the very indistinct undulate line 
albovarie- is light, faded. Hindwing greyish-brown. Canada to Florida and Texas. -— ab. albovariegata Strd. (= ab. 
ycit". ] Hmps.) is on the forewing more intensely mixed with white in the basal and costal-marginal areas and behind 
varia. the distal transverse line. — ab. varia Wkr. (38 h) in contrast with it is more monotonous, lighter, and without 
the black spots before and behind the reniform macula. 
