BASILODES. 



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4571. Basilodes philobia. 



Zatrephcs philobia, Druce, Biol. Ceiitr.-Aru., Ilet. ii. p. 370, pi. 74. f. 8 

 (1897). 



5 . Head and thorax white ; palpi, frons, antennee, and meta- 

 thorax tinged with rufous ; pectus, legs, and abdomen tinged with 

 rufous. Fore wing pale golden yellow with faint silky striae and 

 irrorated with a lew black-brown scales; the costa tinged with 

 rufous at base ; subha^al line I'ejjresented bv an oblique rufous 

 striga from costa ; antemedial line rufous, indistinct and oblique 

 from costa to submedian fold, then more prominent and inwardly 

 oblique ; orbicular large, round, silvery white defined by red-brow)i ; 

 reniform represented by a very large silvery white patch defined by 

 red-brown, extending to below vein 2, its inner side rounded, its 

 extremity extremely produced ; postmedial line red-brown, very 

 strongly excurved from costa to vein 2, then incurved ; apical area 

 whitish ; three red-brown lunules just before termen between veins 

 5 and 2 ; a fine rufous terminal line ; cilia tinged with rufous and 

 chequered with dark brown. Hind wing jmre silvery white, the 

 termen and cilia faintly tiuged with yellow ; the underside with 

 the costa faintly tinged with yellow. 



Bab. Mexico, Jalapa (Iloege), 1 5 , Guerrero (//. H. Smith), 1 2 

 type, Godman-Salvin Coll. Kvi/. 34-42 millim. 



4572. Basilodes pepita. 



Basilnchs pepita, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 3.58, pi. 12. f. 1 (1852); Smith, Cat. 



Noot. N. Am. p. 261. 

 Beobriya chrysopasa, Wlk. Char. L'lulescr. Het, p. 41 (1869). 



Head and thorax pale yellow mixed with some rufous, the hinder 

 part of thorax suffused with dark brown ; palpi brown; frons with 

 lateral brown bars ; antennte ringed with rufous ; pectus and legs 

 ochreous tinged with rufous ; abdomen ochreous suffused with 

 rufous. Fore wing metallic golden yellow; the base of inner 

 margin pale yellow^ tinged with rufous ; subbasal line rufoiis, cui^ved 



Bufilodes pepiia, c?. 



from costa to base at median nervure ; antemedial line indistinct, 

 rufous, very oblique from costa to submedian fold, angled inwards 

 on vein 1 and outwards to inner margin ; orbicular and reniform 

 large, defined by rufous, the former round, the latter with black 

 point on inner side of centre ; traces of a sinuous brown line from 

 lower angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line rufous, very 



