. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. CHALCOPASTA. 219 of inner margin rufous and white ; a fine rufous terminal line; cilia chequered white tinged with rufous and fuscous and with a dark line near base. Hind wing white, the costal and terminal areas suffused with rufous ; cilia white. Underside of fore wing fuscous, the costal and terminal areas yellowish white. Hah. Mexico, X. Sonora {Morrison), 1 $ type, Godraan-Salvin Coll. Exp. 38 millim. 4588. Chalcopasta territans. Basilodes terriians,'K.'EA\^\\\o, iv. p. 45 (1884),' Ottolengui, Can. Ent. XXX. p. 105,
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. CHALCOPASTA. 219 of inner margin rufous and white ; a fine rufous terminal line; cilia chequered white tinged with rufous and fuscous and with a dark line near base. Hind wing white, the costal and terminal areas suffused with rufous ; cilia white. Underside of fore wing fuscous, the costal and terminal areas yellowish white. Hah. Mexico, X. Sonora {Morrison), 1 $ type, Godraan-Salvin Coll. Exp. 38 millim. 4588. Chalcopasta territans. Basilodes terriians,'K.'EA\^\\\o, iv. p. 45 (1884),' Ottolengui, Can. Ent. XXX. p. 105, pi. 5. ff. 3, 4 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 261. S. Head and thorax yellowish white; palpi, antennae, and tips of patagia rufous ; pectus, legs, and abdomen white tinged with rufous. Fore wing brilliant metallic golden green ; the costal area white irrorated with rufous, narrowing to apex, expanding into a quadrate patch in cell before middle and into a discoidal patch angled inwards on median nervure with the golden-green reniform. Fig. 83.— Clicdcopasta territans, S• t- on it with rufous line in middle; median nervure streaked with white : a white and rufous patch on base of inner margin ; a rufous terminal line ; cilia chequered white and rufous. Hind wing white with fine rufous terminal line. Underside of fore wing grey, the costal area white tinged with rufous, the terminal area whitish. Hah. , Arizona, Huachuca Mts., 1 J. Exp. 36 millim. 4589. Chalcopasta houardi. (Plate CXLII. fig. 10.) Plusia howardi. H. Edw. Pacific Coast Lep. xxv. p. 1 (1877); Ottolengui, Can. Eat. xxx. p. 106, pi. 5. f. 2; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 261. $. Head and thorax rufous slightly mixed with whitish; abdomen whitish tinged with rufous. Fore wing brilliant greenish gold; the costa whitish tinged with rufous, expanding beyond middle into a large conical patch extending to just below lower angle of cell and including the reniform, which is defined by rufous, strongly constricted a
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