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MONODES. By Dr. M. Draudt. 
leniilinca. M. kfitilinea Hmps. (39 c) is smaller than the preceding, lighter, with single transverse lines, on 
the averted sides bordered with white, behind the distal line with vein-dots, the undulate line whitish, proximally 
shaded with brown. Hindwing whitish, at the margin brownish. Brazil and Paraguay. 
farija. M. targa Schs. (39 c) differs from the preceding in the purely white semi-transparent hindwing. 
Forewing on the violettish-white ground irrorated with brown and strewn with a darker colour, with double 
brown transverse lines filled up with white, the reniform macula surrounded with white, without a ring-macula; 
a red-brown central shadow is present, the white undulate line is straight. Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina. 
utrisu/na. M. atrisigtla Hmps. (39 d). Forewing on the white ground densely strewn with coppery brown, and 
irrorated with coppery brown in the marginal area; the anterior transverse line is interrupted, indistinctly 
double, the posterior line white proximally bordered with brown; between the small, brown-centred maculae 
with white rings there is a black spot in the cell; undulate line whitish. Hindwing white with a brown marginal 
band. Argentina. 
jonca. M. jonea Schs. (39 d) is one of the largest species, the white ground of the forewing is strewn with 
brownish-grey, in the basal and marginal areas irrorated with brown; transverse lines double, filled up with 
whitish, the white maculae surrounded with black and with brown centres, between them a thick brown central 
shadow and below with a faded black submedian stripe; undulate line indistinct whitish. Hindwing white, 
cast mu i.<:. at the margin brownish. Brazil. — In ab. castronis Strd. (— ab. 1 Hnvps.) the black submedian stripe is absent 
and the central shadow is replaced by 2 narrow streaks. In the $ the basal and marginal areas are darker. 
Castro (Parana). 
editha. M. ediflha Schs. (39 d). Forewing white, densely strewn with coppery brown, with fine white veins, 
double transverse lines filled up with white, and brown-centred maculae with white rings; the straight white 
undulate line is proximally shaded with brown. Hindwing of a pure white, in the $ brownish. Brazil. 
lithodia. M. lithodia Sch.s. (39 d) is a smaller whitish species being in some places irrorated with coppery brown, 
with dark double transverse lines filled up with whitish; of the ring-maculae only the distal border is visible, 
the reniform macula is a whitish spot being proximally and below bordered with black; the white marginal 
area behind the undulate line is irrorated with grey. Hindwing brownish-grey. Brazil and Trinidad. 
ihionaris. M. thloiiaris Schs. (39 d) has coppery-brown forewings with double blackish transverse lines, the 
posterior line towards the costal margin filled up with white, the maculae incompletely bordered with black, 
the reniform macula with white dots above and below; a bent blackish middle line is distally accompanied 
by a brown band; the undulate line is composed of reddish and white lunulae being proximally bordered with 
black. Hindwing coppery brown. Brazil. 
ligata. M. ligata Mschlr., which is doubtfully placed hereto, has a wood-coloured brown forewing, being 
yellowish-brown at the hind-margin and in a broad postmedian band which extends in 2 broad stripes towards 
the margin and is interrupted below the centre and darkened by brown longitudinal streaks; transverse lines 
indistinct, the anterior line yellow, forming high bows, the posterior line brown; maculae obsolete, reniform 
macula distally with 2 small white spots; the undulate line is light, forming 2 strong bows and being proximally 
bordered with dark brown Hindwing diaphanous whitish, on the veins and margin brownish. Expanse of 
wings: 25 mm. Portorico. 
issc. M. isse Schs. (42 d) has brown forewings, before and behind the median area mixed with white, 
the anterior line fine brovm, on both sides broadly bordered with white, before it below the cell a black spot, 
the posterior transverse line white, finely bordered with brown; the oblique white reniform macula is irrorated 
with light brown, distally bordered with dark brown; the postmedian area is of a purer white, below the costal 
margin dark brown; the white undulate line is proximally shaded with brown, distally with silvery grey. 
Hindwing whitish, at the margin brownish-grey. Surinam. 
lithotela. M. lithotela Dyar (42 d). Forewing blackish-brown, the transverse lines indicated by rows of white 
dots; through the cel! extends a long spindle-shaped olive-yellowish diffuse spot separating the two largest 
white dots of the postmedian line; the undulate line is an irregularly broken olive shadow. Hindwing black. 
Expanse of wings: 17 mm. Panama. 
ipsidomo. M. ipsidomo Dyar (42 d) has light lilac-grey forewings with a brownish-black median area obliquely 
extending to the apex, at the costal margin interrupted by a large white-dusted spot in which the narrow light 
reniform macula is situate, behind it in the dark ground a black streak, a similar one in the dark-shaded basal 
area below the median; undulate line light. Hindwing brownish-black. Panama. 
virescens. M. vlrescens Schs. (39 d). Forewing yellowish-green, in the median area whitish, irrorated with red- 
brown. the same in the marginal area except the extreme distal margin, with fine black transverse lines, the 
posterior line towards the costed margin distally bordered with white; the ring-macula is absent, the reniform 
macula is composed of 2 small black spots; the apex is parted by white. Hindwing reddish-brown. Brazil. 
stenelea. M. stenelea Schs. (39 e) is a very small insect with narrow wings, with dark brown, apically red-brown 
forewings, with whitish, partly incomplete transverse lines; the narrow oblique reniform macula is laterally 
bordered with black, the ring-macula is absent; hindwing red-brown. Brazil, 
