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i"/ ( I . Basilodei philobia. 



Zatrephe, philcbia, Drace, BioL Centr.-Am,, Het. ii, p. 370, pi. 74, t.8 



. Head and thorax white; palpi, frons, antennae, and m< 

 tbora '.iili rufous; pectu nd abdomen tinged with 



rufous. Fore wing pale golden yellow with faini silky striae and 

 irrorated with a tew blacb brown cah , the eo ta tinged with 

 rufous at base; subbasal line represented by an oblique rufous 

 ., from costa ; antemedial line rufous, indistinct and oblique 

 from costa to ubmedian fold, then more prominent and inwa 

 oblique; orbicular large, round, silvery white defined by re< 

 reniform represented I)} a very large silvery white patch defined by 

 - tending to below rein ~i, its innei side rounded, its 

 emity extremel) produced; postmedial line red brown, 

 strong <■'! from co ta to vein 2, then incurved ; apical area 



whitish; three red brown lunulesjusl before termen between reins 

 "j and 2 ; a fine rufous terminal line ; cilia tinged with rufous 

 chequered with dari brown. Hind wing pure 

 termen and cilia faintly tinged with yellow; the underside with 

 the costa faintly tinged with yellow. 



Hab, Mexico, Jalapa {Hoege\ I ? , Guerrero (H. If. Smith), 1 7 

 type, Godman-Salvin Coll. Exp. 24 )- millim. 



4572. Basilodes pepita. 



Batilodei pepita, Onem. tfoct, ii. p. 368, pi. \2. f. ] (1852); 8i 



Noct. -N. Am. p. 261. 

 /- opasa, V\ Ik. 4 Eet. j». II (1869). 



Eead and thorax pale yellow mixed with some rufous, the hinder 

 pari of thorax ifro ed with dari brown; palpi brown; frons wit h 

 lateral brown bars; antennae ringed with rufou and legs 



ochreous tinged with rufous; abdomen ocbreous Buifnsed with 

 rufou . Fore wing metallic golden yellow; of inner 



How tinged with rufous; subbasal line rufi 



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from costa to base at median nervure; antemedial line indistinct, 

 rufous, very oblique from costa to submedian fold, angled inv 

 on vein 1 and outwards to inner margin ; orbicular and reniform 

 large, denned by rufous, the former round, the latter with black 



point on inner side of centre ; traces of a sinuous brown line from 

 lower angle of cell to inner margin; postmedial line rufous, very 



