220 NOCTTJID^. 



below cell and at vein 1 ; a fine rufous terminal line and sometimes 

 a patch on middle of termen ; cilia whitish tinged with rufous and 

 intersected with dark brown. Hind wing whitish suffused with 

 rufous especially on terminal area ; cilia white. Underside of fore 

 wing fuscous, the costal and terminal areas ochreous white ; hind 

 wing white. 



Hah. U.S.A., Arizona, Prescott (Xunze), 1 $ . Exp. 40 millim. 



*4590. Chalcopasta arizona. 



Plusia arizona, French, Can. Ent. xxi. p. 161 (1889); Ottolengui, Can. 

 Ent. xxx. p. 106 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. U. Am. p. 248. 



S . Head and thorax purple-brown mixed with ochreous, the 

 crests darker at tips ; abdomen whitish tinged with brown. Fore 

 wing brilliant metallic gold ; the costa narrowly purple-brown ; a 

 small triangular purple-brown patch from costa at base to inner 

 margin before middle ; a quadrate antemedial patch from costa to 

 median nervure ; a subquadrate patch from costa in and beyond 

 end of cell, extending to near apex ; patches on termen at middle 

 and tornus ; cilia chequered whitish and purple-brown. Hind 

 wing whitish with a fine dark terminal line. 



Hah. U.S.A., Arizona. Exp. 38 millim. This species is unknown 

 to me. 



Sect. II. Antenna; of male minutely ciliated. 



A. Fore wing purple-grey with patches of golden green. 



a. Hind wing white with subterminal. dark shade pterochalcea. 



b. Hind wing brown. 



a 1 . Fore wing with subterminal golden green band con- 

 fluent with the oblique band from middle of cell to 



tornus acantka. 



b 1 . Fore wing with the oblique golden green band only. 

 a 2 . Fore wing with the oblique band narrow and 



elliptical below the cell chalcotoxa. 



b-. Fore wing with the oblique band broad and 



quadrate below the cell acema. 



B. Fore wing silvery white with ante- and postmedial rufous 



bands axbelei. 



4591. Chalcopasta pterochalcea. (Plate CXLVIII. fig. 7.) 



Basilocles pterochalcea, Dyar, Pr. Ent. Soc. Wash. xi. p. 24 (1909). 



J . Head and tegulas grey mixed with reddish brown, the latter 

 with pale tips ; thorax dark brown mixed with grey ; abdomen 

 whitish suffused with rufous. Fore wing metallic brassy; the 

 costal edge grey mixed with red-brown expanding into an irregular 

 brown-edged patch on discocellulars, then narrowing to a point 

 before apex ; the base of inner margin grey and brown expanding 

 into a sharp triangular patch before middle extending nearly to 

 cell ; a subterminal series of slight brown spots excurved below 

 vein 7 and at middle ; cilia grey and red-brown. Hind wing white 



