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noctuid.e. 



very oblique from costa to upper angle of cell, obliquely incurved 

 from lower angle to inner margin ; postmedial line fine, brown, 

 very oblique from costa to vein 7, tben very oblique to inner 

 margin ; an oblique brown streak from just below apex to just 

 below angle of postmedial line ; subterminal line faint, wbitish 

 defined on inner side by brown and obsolescent between veins 6 

 and 4, minutely dentate, incurved below vein 3 ; a fine slightly 

 waved brown terminal line. Hind wing whitish suffused with 

 brown and with a golden gloss ; cilia white tinged with ochreous ; 

 the underside glossy white slightly tinged with brown. 



Hob. Mexico, Jalapa (Trujillo), 1 <3 , 1 2 > Godman-Salvin Coll. 

 Exp. S 32, $ 36 millim. 



Genus CHALCOPASTA, nov. 



Type, C. territans. 



Proboscis fully developed : palpi porrect, extending about the length of 

 head and thickly clothed with hair ; frons with large round corneous process 

 with raised edges and central process and corneous plate below it ; eyes large, 

 round ; antennas of male typically serrate ; thorax clothed with rough scales, 

 the pro- and metathorax with spreading crests, the patagia curled upwards at 

 extremities ; tibiae slightly fringed with hair, the fore tibia with large curved 

 claw on inner side ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the apex some- 

 what produced, the termen evenly curved and not crcnulate; veins 3 and 5 

 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing 

 with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from 

 angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from just below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 

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



Sect. I. Antennas of male serrate. 



A. Fore wing without rufous patch at tornus. 



a. Fore wing with antemedial rufous patch on costa. 



a\ Fore wing with the discoidal patch including the reni- 

 form which is defined by rufous and constricted at 

 middle arianda. 



b l . Fore wing with the discoidal patch including the reni- 

 form which is golden green with a rufous line in 

 middle territans. 



b. Fore wing without antemedial rufous patch on costa houardi. 



B. Fore wing with rufous patch at tornus arizona. 



4587. Chalcopasta arianda. 

 Plusia arianda, Druce, Biol. Oentr.-Am., Het. i. p. 329, pi. 30. f. 1 1 (1889). 



5 . Head and thorax white tinged with rufous ; palpi, antennae, 

 terminal half of patagia, and metathorax rufous ; pectus, legs, and 

 abdomen whitish suffused with rufous. Fore wing brilliant 

 metallic golden green ; the costal area whitish suffused with rufous, 

 narrowing to apex, expanding into a quadrate patch in cell before 

 middle and a discoidal patch, angled inwards on median nervure 

 and including the reniform, which is defined by rufous, constricted 

 at middle and with some golden scales on its inner edge ; the base 



