. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. MONODES. 459 postmedial line, black spots in orbicular and reniform, the medial line rufous and obsolescent. Hah. Bahamas, Nassau {Sir G. Carter)^ 2 J , 1 ^ tj^pe poUotis ; Haiti (Tiveedie), 2 2 type. Exp. 28-30 millim. Sect. III. Antennse of male ciliated. A. Fore tibiae and tarsi of male fi'inn;ed with long hair on outer side. *4155. Monodes agyra. Ccdlopisiria agyra, Druce, P. Z. S. 1890, p. 517, & Biol. Het. ii. p. 601, pi. y(i. f. 6. S . Head and thorax red-brown mixed with reddish ochreous; tarsi blackis
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. MONODES. 459 postmedial line, black spots in orbicular and reniform, the medial line rufous and obsolescent. Hah. Bahamas, Nassau {Sir G. Carter)^ 2 J , 1 ^ tj^pe poUotis ; Haiti (Tiveedie), 2 2 type. Exp. 28-30 millim. Sect. III. Antennse of male ciliated. A. Fore tibiae and tarsi of male fi'inn;ed with long hair on outer side. *4155. Monodes agyra. Ccdlopisiria agyra, Druce, P. Z. S. 1890, p. 517, & Biol. Het. ii. p. 601, pi. y(i. f. 6. S . Head and thorax red-brown mixed with reddish ochreous; tarsi blackish ringed with ochreous; abdomen red-brown mixed with ochreous. Fore wing bright red-brown mixed with some ochreous, the veins of costal area and the median nervure streaked with ochreous white ; subbasal line double, black filled in with yellow, curved, from eosta to vein 1, some yellowish beyond it in submedian interspace; antemedial line double filled in with yellowish, angled outwards below costa, then oblique, waved; clavi- form represented by an oblique yellowish-white streak from median nervure below orbicular to submedian fold near postmedial line ; orbicular and reniform with pale yellow annuli slightly defined by black, the former small, oblique elliptical, the latter inwardly oblique, angled inwards on median nervure, and with small white spots in upper and lower parts ; postmedial line black defined by. Y\g.\Z1.—Monocles agyra, ^. \. yellow on outer side, strongly bent outwards below costa, then minutely dentate, oblique below vein 5, some yellow points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line^'ellowish defined by brown on inner side, cxcurved below vein 7, excurved and minutely waved at middle; a fine terminal dark line; cilia with a fine yellowish line at base. Hind -wing brown with a greyish tinge ; a faint discoidal bar and curved postmedial line; cilia whitish with a brown line through them; the underside whitish irrorated with brown, the termen suffused with b
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