CHALC0 PASTA. 



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irrorated with brown ; an indistinct subterminal shade and fine 

 terminal line; the underside while, the apex slightly irrorated 

 with brown, a faint postmedial line on costal area. 



Hab. Mexico, Tehnacan {Mailer), 1 J . Earn. 36 millim. 



4592. Chalcopasta acantha. 



Plitsia acantha, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 329, pi. 30. f. 13 (1889). 



Head, thorax, and abdomen dark brown tinged with greyish ; 

 palpi, pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen more rufous ; 

 tarsi brown ringed with rufous. Fore wing brown suffused with 

 purplish grey ; the basal half of inner area dark olive-brown with a 

 greenish gold spot below base of cell bounded by the brown ante- 

 medial line, which is oblique from costa to submedian fold, then 

 inwardly oblique; orbicular greenish gold slightly defined by 

 brown, oblique elliptical, very large, and connected w T ith the 

 greenish gold on postmedial area ; reniform slightly defined by 

 brown and strongly constricted at middle ; postmedial line slight, 

 brown, oblique from costa to vein 6, inwardly oblique to vein 4, 



Fig. 84. — Chalcopasta acantha, <$ 



then retracted to origin of vein 2 and outwardly oblique to inner 

 margin ; an oblique series of greenish gold spots from apex to 

 vein 3, then expanding into a large patch extending to origin of 

 vein 2 and termen ; cilia dark brown mixed with whitish. Hind 

 wing very dark red-brown ; cilia dark broAvn mixed with whitish. 

 Underside of both wings grey-brown with the costal areas ochreous 

 white. 



llah. Mexico, Guerrero (//. IT. Smith), 1 tf type; Guatemala, 

 S. Geronimo {Champion), 1 § , Godman-Salvin Coll. Exp. 36 millim. 



4593. Chalcopasta chalcotoxa. (Plate CXLVIII. fig. 8.) 

 Basilodes chalcotoxum, Dyar, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. xi. p. 25 (1909). 



cS . Head, thorax, and abdomen dark reddish brown mixed with 

 grey; lower part of frons and ventral surface of abdomen whitish. 

 Fore wing dark red-brown irrorated with grey ; a metallic brassy 

 patch at base from just above to just below cell with another patch 

 beyond it in and above cell, its extremity connected with an oblique 

 patch extending from the cell to tornus ; antemedial line dark 

 brown, oblique, sinuous ; an oblique sinuous medial line from cell 



