!?0G nuciiiu.t:. 



strongly iTicurved below vein 4, another indistinct line before it 

 from vein 5 to inner margin ; subterminal line whitish slightly 

 doHned on each side by rufous, incurved above inner margin ; a 

 fine rufous terminal line. Hind wing ochreous white almost 

 entirely suffused witli rufous, the cilia ochreous white ; the under- 

 si<le ochreous white faintly tinged with rufous and with slight 

 subterminal shade. 



llah. Mexico, Tehnacan (Midler), 1 d ■ Evp. 34 millim. 



*4o70. ? Cirrhophanus papago. (Plate CXLll. fig. 6.) 

 Cirrhophamis papago, Barnes, Can. Ent. xxxix. p. 95 (1007). 



Head and thorax orange-yellow ; abdomen pale yellow tinged 

 •with brownish. Fore wing yellow, the veins and submedian fold 

 orange-yellow ; antemedial line orange-yellow, excurved and difFused ; 

 stigmata absent ; postmedial line orange-yellow, diffused, excurved 

 from costa to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line absent. 

 Hind wing yellow suffused with fuscous except towards inner 

 margin ; cilia yellow. Underside of fore wing with the disk 

 sutfused with fuscous ; hind wing pale yellow. 



Hub. U.S.A., S. New Mexico. Exp. 30 millim. This species is 

 unknown to me ; figured from a drawing from type in Coll. W. 

 iJarues. 



Genus BASILODES. rv 



Type. 



Basilodes, Gnen. Noct. ii. p. 358 (1852) pepita. 



Deobriga, Wlk. Char. Undescr. Het. p. 41 ( 1869) j9fp?7rt. 



. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porrect, extending; about the length of head, 

 fringed with hair above and somewhat downeurved at extremity ; frons with 

 large round corneous proiuineiice with raised edges and corneous plate below 

 it; ejes large, round; anteun:e of male huuinate and niinnteh' ciliated; 

 thorax clothrd with I'ougii scales, the prothorax with spreading crest, the 

 nietathorax with rery large crest and the palagia curled up at extremity; tibi;P 

 moderately fringed with hair, the Cure tibiit with curved claw on inner side; 

 abdomen without crests. Fore wing broad, the apex produced and acute, the 

 termen excurved at middle and oblique towards tornus, hardly crenulate ; 

 veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anasto- 

 mosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins o, 4 

 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from below middle of discocellulars ; 0, 7 

 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosiug witli the cell near base only. 



A. Fore wing with large irregular white patch defined by 



black on postmedial area philobia. 



B. Fore wing without white patch on postmedial area. 



a. Fore wing without olive-green patches on costa and at 



apex and tornns. 



n^. Fore wing golden yellow pepita. 



6'. Fore wing pale yellow irrorated with olive-brown ck?\i/sapis. 



b. Fore wing with olive-green patches on costa at base and 



apex and at tornns mirahilis. 



