OF WASHINGTON, VOLUME XI, 1909 25 



One female, Tehuacan, Mexico, September, 1908, from Mr. 

 R. Miiller. 



Type No. 12226, U. S. Nat. Mus. 



The distribution of golden upon the fore wings is as in 

 Deva ( ?) ornata Ottolengui, but that species has no frontal 

 process. 



Basilodes chalcotoxum, new species. 



Dark purplish-gray, irrorated with whitish ; lines obsolete ; a band of 

 bronzy golden from the base of cell curves over at the origin of vein 2 

 and touches the inner margin beyond the middle, where it is edged 

 with whitish ; outer line faintly indicated in dark, followed by a bronzy 

 luster, which becomes a small bronze patch on veins 6 and 7. Hind 

 wing dark brown, the outer half of the fringe whitish. Expanse, 32 mm 



One female, Tehuacan, Mexico, September, 1908, from Mr. 

 R. Miiller. 



Type No. 12227, U. S. Nat. Mus. 



The species much resembles Plitsia acema Druce ( Biol. Cent. 

 Am. Lep. Het, i, 330, 1889), described from a single male, 

 but the present species is larger, more slender, while the golden 

 band is narrower and cut in on the outer side at the origin of 

 vein 3. 



Basilodes chryseochilus, new specks. 



Head and thorax ochraceous before, dark brown on the disc. Fore 

 wing purplish to the outer line, the terminal space broadly pale golden, 

 with two olhaceous brown-shaded lines; inner line slender, dark, pro- 

 duced into two long teeth, one on the discal and one on the submedian 

 fold; outer line close to the pale margin, slender, dark, arcuate inward 

 below, retracted subapically obliquely to the costa ; median area indis- 

 tinctly streaked with dark purplish; veins finely lined in brown; reni- 

 form ocherous brown, a little lighter than the ground color, without 

 darker edge; fringe' very pale brown. Hind wing blackish, the fringe 

 very pale brown. Expanse, 35 mm. 



Two females, Tehuacan, Mexico, September, 1908, from Mr. 

 R. Miiller. 



Type No. 12228, U. S. Nat. Mus. 



The form is slender, the fore wings rather long and narrow. 



Antaplaga subfumosa, new specks. 



Head and thorax above orange red : abdomen pale gray. Fore wing 

 silky yellowish, with a smoky shading except along the costa and apex, 

 the shading darkest toward base about vein 1. Mind wing pale smoky. 



