. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. JIOXODES. 40i ami very minutely waved from costa to vein .3, then bent inwards to lower extremity of reniform and oblifiue to inner margin near tornus ; subterminal line absent; a slight whitish line at base of cilia. Hind wing pure white ; the underside with the costal area and terminal area to vein 2 irrorated with brown, a black discoidal. Fig. 13G.—^Tonodes nucicolora, J. f. point, punctiform postmcdial line from costa to vein 2 with small black spots below costa and at discal fold, and black points on apical half of termen


. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. JIOXODES. 40i ami very minutely waved from costa to vein .3, then bent inwards to lower extremity of reniform and oblifiue to inner margin near tornus ; subterminal line absent; a slight whitish line at base of cilia. Hind wing pure white ; the underside with the costal area and terminal area to vein 2 irrorated with brown, a black discoidal. Fig. 13G.—^Tonodes nucicolora, J. f. point, punctiform postmcdial line from costa to vein 2 with small black spots below costa and at discal fold, and black points on apical half of termen. Hah. , Florida (Douhleday), 1 c?, 2 $, type and type unisignata, Enterprise, 2 c?, 3 5, Texas, 1 J type dara ; Bahamas, Andros {Boahote), 1 cS, 1 ? ; Jamaica, Constant Springs ( WuJsint/ham), 2 cf, Castleton (Kai/e), 2 $ ; Bkazil, Bahia {Sleadc- WaJdo)l 1 <S ; Peku, Trujillo. Exp. 22-28 millim. 416G. Monodes subriibens. (Plate CXXXIV. fig. 8.) Miana subrubens, Guen. Noct. i. p. 219 (1852). Head and thorax pale red-brown mixed with some fuscous; sides of palpi and frons blackish; pectus and legs bright rufous: abdomen greyish suffused with rufous. Fore wing greyish suffused and irrorated with brown, the costal area pale rufous, the veins irro- rated with white and black, a triangular brown patch on medial area with its apex in end of cell, below the cell bounded by the ante- and postmedial lines : subbasal line very indistinct, double, bent outwards at median nervure and ending at vein 1; antemedial line double, oblique from costa to median nervure. then inwardly oblique; orbicular and reniform absent; postmedial line black defined by whitish on outer side except towards costa, oblique from costa to vein 5, then bent inwards to lower angle of cell and outwardly oblique to inner margin ; subterminal line defined by dark suffusion on inner side, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excui ved at middle; a series of minute white points at extremities of the veins; a f


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