. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. CHALCOPASTA,—CENTROGOXE. 223 area. Underside of fore wing suffused with brown except the costa ; hind wing pure white. Hah. , Kansas. Argus Mts. {Riley), in Nat. Mus., California. Exp. 32 millim. Genua CENTROGONE, nov. Type, C. cJdorochn/sa. Proboscis aborted, small; palpi obliquely porrect, extending to just beyond frons, the 2nd joint moderately scaled, the ord short; frons with corneous prominence with raised edges and central process, a large corneous plate below frons; eyes large, round ; antennas of male bipe
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. CHALCOPASTA,—CENTROGOXE. 223 area. Underside of fore wing suffused with brown except the costa ; hind wing pure white. Hah. , Kansas. Argus Mts. {Riley), in Nat. Mus., California. Exp. 32 millim. Genua CENTROGONE, nov. Type, C. cJdorochn/sa. Proboscis aborted, small; palpi obliquely porrect, extending to just beyond frons, the 2nd joint moderately scaled, the ord short; frons with corneous prominence with raised edges and central process, a large corneous plate below frons; eyes large, round ; antennas of male bipectinate with ujoderate branches to apex; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales, the pro- and metathorax with small spreading crests ; fore tibiie short with curved claw on inner side at extremity, the mid and hind tibia; smoothly scaled; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and hardly crenulate; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 I'rom upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from below middle of diseo- cellulars ; 6, 7 shortly stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the cell to near middle. 4596. Centrogone chlorochrysa, n. sp. c? . Head, tegulae, and legs ochreous white mixed with rufona; thorax ochreous white ; abdomen ochreous white slightly tinged with rufous at middle of dorsum and on ventral surface. Fore wing pale golden green, the extreme base and costal edges ochreous white thickly irrorated with rufous ; antemedial line represented by slight dark points on the veins; orbicular very small, round, with ochreous white centre defined by fuscous; reniform with. Fig. 85.— Centragone chlorochrysa, (^. \. • rufous centre surrounded by small rufous fuscous-edged spots; postraedial line represented by an oblique series of dark points ou the veins from vein 7 to inner margin, the subterminal line by points on veins 7, 6, 4; a fine
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