. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 564 costa and termen to vein 2 tinged with brown, a black discoidal spot and curved rather maculate postmedial line. Hah. Brazil, Sao Paulo {D. Jones), ty^e f § in 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,
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 564 costa and termen to vein 2 tinged with brown, a black discoidal spot and curved rather maculate postmedial line. Hah. Brazil, Sao Paulo {D. Jones), ty^e f § in 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. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - colorat
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