. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. BASILODES. RASIMCA. 1209 from below it. oblique and slightly incurved to inner margin ; sub- terminal line white defined on inner side by dark green, slightly excurved to vein 4, then incurved, an irregular dark patch beyond it at tornus; cilia yellowish. Hind wing silvery white tinged with grey, the terminal area suffused with fuscous ; cilia white ; the underside uniform creamj'^ white. Hah. , Arizona. Exp. 32 millim. This species is unknown to me, figured from a drawing from type ia Coll. Brooklyn Soc. Arts &
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. BASILODES. RASIMCA. 1209 from below it. oblique and slightly incurved to inner margin ; sub- terminal line white defined on inner side by dark green, slightly excurved to vein 4, then incurved, an irregular dark patch beyond it at tornus; cilia yellowish. Hind wing silvery white tinged with grey, the terminal area suffused with fuscous ; cilia white ; the underside uniform creamj'^ white. Hah. , Arizona. Exp. 32 millim. This species is unknown to me, figured from a drawing from type ia Coll. Brooklyn Soc. Arts & Sciences. Genus BASILICA, nov. Type, B. chrj/sosticta. Proboscis aborted, minute ; palpi obliquely porrect, extending about the length of head, tlie 2nd joint moderately fringed with scales (ord joint broken); frons with large round corneous prominence with raised edges and wedge- shaped process in middle, a corneous plate below it; eyes large, round ; anteuniB of female laminate and ciliated; thorax clothed with scales and hair mixed, apparently without crests; tibiae moderately fringed with hair; (fore legs broken) ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing very broad, the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and slightly crenulate, the tornus with scale-tooth; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anas- tomosing with 8 to form tlie areole; 11 from ceil. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from well below middle of discocellulars; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 4575. Basilica chrysosticta. Sasilodes chrysio^tlcta, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. iv. p. 535 (1896), 5 . Head and thorax pale brown-pink mixed with whitish ; abdomen ochreous dorsally suffused with fuscous. Fore wing pale brown-pink tinged with whitish and irrorated with a few black scales ; a large pale-yellow patch on medial area from cell to inner margin irrorated with some brick-red scales; subbasa] line repre- sented by indistinct do
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