154 KocTiin.E, 



ine<lian ncrvurc and vein I ; a .small fuscous s{K)t a I lower angle 

 of cell ; a faint diffused sinuous rufous medial line ; postmedial 

 line indistinct, rufous, slightly defined b}' white on outer side, very 

 uiinutely waved and with minute dark points on the veins, slightly 

 excurved from costa to vein 4, then oblicjue ; subterminal line 



Fig. 47. — Trichocosmia inornata, J • 



indistinct, white slightly defined bj' rufous on iuner side and some- 

 what excurved below vein 7 and at middle; a terminal series of 

 slight dark points. Kind wing pure white ; tlie underside with the 

 {i]>ex faintly tinged with rufous. 



Ab. 1. Eore wing witliout the dark spot at lower angle of cell 

 and points on the veins. 



JIdb. U.S.A., Arizona, 1 cS , I'hoenix (Kuiize), 19 J , 10 5 . Exj^. 

 24-28 millim. 



Genus BAGISARA. 



Tv]ie. 



Baffisara, Wlk. sv. 1770 (1858) suhasfa. 



Proboscis fullj- developed ; palpi upturned, the 2ik1 joint reaching to vertex of 

 Iiead and slender, the 8rcl nioderate ; frons smooth ; eyes large, round ; antenna} 

 of male laminate and moderately ciliated ; thorax clothed almost entirely with 

 .""Cales and without crests ; tibise moderately fringed with hair ; abdomen with 

 dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing with veins 3 and 5 IVom neai' angle of 

 cell ; () from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 

 11 froTu cell. Hind wing with veins 3,4 from an'^le of cell; 5 ohsoles^-ent 

 from below ndddle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing 

 with the cell near base only. 



Sect. I. Fore wing with the termen somewhat excised below apex and towards 

 tornus and excurved at middle. 



4498. Bagisara subusta. 



Alcthmia sulusta, Hiibn. Samml. Exot. Schmett. ii. p. 8, ff. 205-6 (1827) ; 



Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 290; Sudth, Cat. Noct. N. Am. 



p. 213. 

 A/ethmia initda, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 12, pi. 8. f. 1 (1852) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. 



N. Am. p. 214. 

 Aiithophila erccta, Wlk. xii. 828 (1857). 

 A'WhUA dUparlUa, Wlk. xiii. 990 (1857). 

 Voaphila con(jcf.ta, Wlk. xv. 1838 (1858). 

 Bnifhura incident, Wlk. xv. 1771 (18.58). 

 La])h!!g)iia trilinea , Wlk. xxxii. t549 (1865). 



Head and thorax pale ochreous yellow ; tarsi tinged with brown ; 

 abdomen pale yellow dorsally tinged with fulvous. Pore wing pale 

 glossy ochreous yellow irrorated with pale brown ; the 1st line 

 almost medial, brown defined by whitish on inner side, angled 

 outwards below costa, then oblique and slightly incurved ; two 



