208 NOCTUID.E. 



oblique from costa to below vein 7 where it is acutely augled, then 

 very oblique and slightly incurved at submedian fold ; subterminal 

 line rather diffused, brown, oblique from costa just before apex to 

 the angle of postmedial line, then minutely dentate and exeurved 

 at middle ; a fine brown terminal line ; cilia pale yellow tinged with 

 brown at tips. Hind wing pale yellow suffused with red-brown 

 except on costal area to beyond middle, traces of a discoidal bar 

 and postmedial line exeurved below costa, then oblique ; cilia pale 

 yellow slightly mixed with brown ; the underside pale yellow, the 

 costal and terminal areas slightly irrorated with brown, a slight 

 postmedial line exeurved and slightly waved below costa, then 

 oblique ; a fine terminal line. 



Hal. U.S.A., 1 S type clirysopasa, Virginia, Florida, Kansas 

 (Snow), 2 2 , Colorado. Exp. 44 millim. 



4573. Basilodes chrysopis. (Plate CXLII. fig. 7.) 



Basilodes chrysopis, Grote, Papilio, i. p. 154 (1881) ; Smith, Cat. Noct 

 N. Am. p. 261. 



Head and thorax pale yellow slightly mixed with rufous; palpi 

 brownish ; fore legs tinged with rufous : abdomen pale yellow. 

 Fore wing pale vellow irrorared with olive-brown, the medial area 

 except towards inner margin, the postmedial costal area and the 

 terminal area suffused with olive-brown ; subbasal line represented 

 by a faint brown striga from costa ; antemedial line indistinct, 

 brown, very oblique from costa to submedian fold, angled inwards 

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

 pale yellow, undefined, the former round, the latter with small 

 black spot near inner edge ; postmedial line brown, oblique from 

 costa to below vein 7 where it is angled, then oblique, sinuous and 

 incurved in submedian interspace ; a very indistinct, minutely waved 

 subterminal line. Hind wing yellowish white ; traces of a fine 

 postmedial line exeurved below costa, then oblique ; the terminal 

 area faintly tinged with brown except towards tornus ; cilia white 

 faintly tinged with brown at base ; the underside yellowish white 

 with the costal area faintly tinged with brown. 



Hob. U.S.A., Colorado, Denver (Oslar), 2 2 , New Mexico, 

 Albuquerque Mts. (Oslar), 3 J , 1 $ , Arizona. Exp. 40-44 millim. 



*4574. ? Basilodes mirabilis. (Plate CXLII. fig. 8.) 



Basilodes mirabilis, Xeurn. Papilio, iv. p. 94 (1884); Smith Cat. Noct. 

 N. Am. p. 262. 



,5 . Head and thorax greenish ; antenna? yellowish ; legs and 

 abdomen pale ochreous. Fore wing pale greenish : a large tri- 

 angular dark green patch on base of costal area, the white ante- 

 medial line arising from it, oblique to median nervure where it is 

 sharply angled, then inwardly oblique ; a dark discoidal striga ; 

 a rather elliptical dark green patch on costa towards apex, the 

 white postmedial line defined on inner side by dark green arising 



