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of inner margin rufous and white; a fine rufous terminal line ; 

 cilia chequered white tinged with rufous and fuscous and with a 

 dark line near base. Hind wing white, the costal and terminal 

 areas suffused with rufous ; cilia white. Underside of fore wing 

 fuscous, the costal and terminal areas yellowish white. 



Hob. Mexico, N. Sonora (Morrison), 1 $ type, Godman-Salvin 

 Coll. Exp. 38 millim. 



4588. Chalcopasta territans. 



Basilodes territans, H. Edw. Papilio, iv. p. 45 (1884),* Ottolengui, Can. 

 Ent. xxx. p. 105, pi. 5. ff. 3, 4 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 261. 



<S . Head and thorax yellowish white ; palpi, antenna?, and tips 

 of patagia rufous ; pectus, legs, and abdomen white tinged with 

 rufous. Fore wing brilliant metallic golden green ; the costal area 

 white irrorated with rufous, narrowing to apex, expanding into a 

 quadrate patch in cell before middle and into a discoidal patch 

 angled inwards on median nervure with the golden-green reniform 



Chalcopasta territans, J . 



on it with rufous line in middle ; median nervure streaked with 

 white : a white and rufous patch on base of inner margin ; a rufous 

 terminal line; cilia chequered white and rufous. Hind wing white 

 with fine rufous terminal line. Underside of fore wing grey, the 

 costal area white tinged with rufous, the terminal area whitish. 

 Hub. U.S.A., Arizona, Huachuca Mts., 1 <J . Exp. 36 millim. 



4589. Chalcopasta houardi. (Plate CXLII. fig. 10.) 



Plusia howardi. H. Edw. Pacific Coast Lep. xxv. p. 1 (1877) ; Ottolengui, 

 Can. Ent. xxx. p. 106, pi. 5. f. 2; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 261. 



$ . Head and thorax rufous slightly mixed with whitish ; 

 abdomen whitish tinged with rufous. Pore wing brilliant greenish 

 gold ; the costa whitish tinged with rufous, expanding beyond 

 middle into a large conical patch extending to just below lower 

 angle of cell and including the reniform, which is defined by rufous, 

 strongly constricted at middle and figure-of-8-shaped and with a 

 few golden scales on it, the patch defined by a rufous line but 

 extending beyond it towards apex ; the basal area whitish tinged 

 with rufous, with wedge-shaped golden patch on it below costa 

 near base bounded by the fine rufous oblique sinuous antemedial 

 line, the outer edge of basal area very oblique and angled outwards 



