222 NOCTUIDJE. 



to inner margin ; traces of a postmedial line oblique from eosta to 

 vein 6, then oblique and minutely waved : cilia with a fine pale 

 line at base. Hind wing red-brown with a cupreous gloss ; the 

 cilia with a fine pale line at base ; the underside grey-white 

 irrorated and suffused with red-brown. 



Bab. Mexico, Tehnacan (Midler), 1 J . Exp. 32 miilim. 



4594. Chalcopasta acenia. 

 Plusia acema, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 330, pi. 30. f. 14(1889). 



c? . Head, thorax, and abdomen purplish grey mixed with broAvn ; 

 palpi, pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen whitish tinged 

 with ochreous. Fore wing red-brown suffused and irrorated with 

 purplish grey ; a brilliant golden patch in cell from base to near 

 extremity, extending to just below it at base and to just above it 

 at extremity and confluent with a very broad oblique golden band 

 extending from cell to inner margin near tornus ; reniform small, 

 indistinct, brownish faintly defined by grey, strongly constricted at 

 middle and with small golden spots in upper and lower parts ; a 

 faint postmedial line, oblique from costa to vein 7, then inwardly 

 oblique to the golden band at vein 3 ; the terminal area rather 

 redder irrorated with a few golden scales ; cilia whitish with a 

 dark brown line through them. Hind wing brown irrorated with 

 grey ; cilia whitish with a brown line through them. Underside of 

 both wings grey suffused with brown, the costal area of fore wing 

 ochreous. 



Bab. Mexico, Guerrero (B. H. Smith), 1 <$ type, Godman-Salvin 

 Coll. Exp. 28 millim. 



*4595. Chalcopasta ccebelei. (Plate CXLII. fig. 11.) 



Antaplaga kahelei, Kiley, Ins. Life, v. p. 333 (1893); Dyar, Cat. Lep. 

 N. Am. p. 183. 



3 . Head and thorax white mixed with bright rufous ; palpi 

 white, rufous at tips ; rufous bars above frons and between 

 antenna? ; tegulae with rufous bands at sides : patagia edged with 

 rufous ; pro- and metathoracic crests rufous ; abdomen white 

 slightly tinged with rufous. Eore wing silvery white, the base 

 and costal and inner margins rufous to the nearly straight erect 

 narrow rufous antemedial band which is unusually near base ; a 

 minute black discoidal lunule ; postmedial line strong, double, 

 rufous filled in with pale yellow, dilated at costa, oblique to vein 6, 

 strongly incurved below vein 5 and very slightly excurved below 

 submedian fold, a rufous fascia iu discal fold from it to the rufous 

 subterminal line, which is very near termen, incurved and slightly 

 waved from costa to vein 4, the area beyond it pale yellow ; a 

 rufous terminal line ; cilia white with the tips rufous at apex and 

 towards tornus. Hind wing white tinged with brown except inner 



