. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. BASILODES. TiASIMCA. 209 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 toriuis ; cilia yellowish. Hind wing silvery white tinged with grey, the terminal area suffused with fuscous ; cilia white ; the underside uniform creamy white. Hah. , Arizona. Exp. 32 millim. This species is unknown to me, figured from a drawing from type in Coll. J^rooklyn See. Arts &
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. BASILODES. TiASIMCA. 209 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 toriuis ; cilia yellowish. Hind wing silvery white tinged with grey, the terminal area suffused with fuscous ; cilia white ; the underside uniform creamy white. Hah. , Arizona. Exp. 32 millim. This species is unknown to me, figured from a drawing from type in Coll. J^rooklyn See. Arts & Sciences. Genus BASILICA, nov. Type, B. chnjsosticta. Proboscis aborted, minute ; palpi obliquely porrect, extending about tbe length of head, the 2nd joint fringed with scales (3rd joint broken); frons with large round corneous prouiinence with raised edges and wedge- shaped process in middle, a corneous plate below it; eyes large, round ; anteun;e of female laminate and ciliated; thorax clothed with scales and hair mixed, apparently without crests; tibire 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; fi from upper angle; 9 from 10 anas- tomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. 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, Basilodes chrysostida, Hmpsii. Moths Ind. iv. p. 535 (1806). $. 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; subbasal line reju'e- sented by indistinct double
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