BASILODES. — BASILICA. 



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from below it. oblique and slightly incurved to inner margin ; sub- 

 terminal line white defined ou inner side by dark green, slightly 

 excurved to vein 4, then incurved, an irregular dark patch beyond 

 it at tornus ; cilia yellowish. Hind wing silvery white tinged with 

 grey, the terminal area suffused with fuscous ; cilia white ; the 

 underside uniform creamy white. 



Hal>. U.S.A., S.W. Arizona. Exp. 32 millim. This species is 

 unknown to me, figured from a drawing from type in Coll. Brooklyn 

 Soc. Arts & Sciences. 



Genus BASILICA, now 



Type, B. chrysosticta* 



Proboscis aborted, minute ; palpi obliquely porrect, extending about the 

 length of head, the 2nd joint moderately fringed with scales (3rd joint broken) ; 

 frons with large round corneous prominence with raised edges and wedge- 

 shaped process in middle, a corneous plate below it ; eves large, round ; antenme 

 of female laminate and ciliated; thorax clothed with scales and hair mixed, 

 apparently without crests; tibije 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 ; 6 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 discucellulars ; 

 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



4575. Basilica chrysosticta. 



BnfUodes chrysosticta, Hinpsu. Moths Ind. iv. p. 535 (1896). 



2 ■ Head and thorax pale brown-pink mixed with whitish ; 

 abdjmen ochreous dorsally suffused with fuscous. Pore 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 repre- 

 sented by indistinct double blackish striae from costa ; antemedial 

 line double, waved, angled outwards on median nervure, blackish 



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Fig. 74. — Basilica chrysosticta, $> . \. 



from costa to median nervure, then brick-red ; orbicular absent ; 

 reniform represented by traces of a small lunule with some black 

 scales on its edges ; medial line black from costa to vein 2, oblique 

 from costa to vein 6 well beyond the cell, excurved to vein 4, bent 

 inwards to near origin of vein 2, then waved, brick-red ; an oblique 

 diffused patch of pale yellow irrorated with red from apex ; post- 

 vol. ix. r 



