218 



NOCTUHl.T,. 



very oblique from costa to upper angle of cell, obliquely incurved 

 from lower angle to inner margin ; postmedial line fine, brown, 

 very obli(jue from costa to vein 7, then very oblique to inner 

 margin ; an obli()ue brown streak from just below apex to just 

 below angle of postmedial line; subterminal line faint, whitish 

 defined on inner side by brown and obsolescent between veins <» 

 and 4, minutely dentate, incurved below vein 15 ; a fine slightlv 

 waved brown terminal line. Hiiul wing whitish suffused Avith 

 brown and with a golden gloss ; cilia white tinged with ochreous ; 

 the underside glossy white slightly tinged with brown. - 



Hah. Mexico, Jalapa (Tnajillo), 1 J , 1 $ , Godman-Salvin Coll. 

 jFj-p, cJ -32, 2 36 millim. 



Genus CHALCOPASTA, nov. 



Type, C. icrri/nns. 



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

 be;id and thickly clothed with hair ; trous with large round corneous process 

 with raised edges and central process and corneous plate below it ; eyes large, 

 round ; antenna; of male typically serrate ; thorax clothed with rough scales, 

 the pro- and metathorax with spreading crests, the patagia curled upwards at 

 extremities ; tibite slightly fringed with hair, the fore tibiae with large curved 

 claw on inner side ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the apex sonie- 

 w'hat produced, the termen evenly curved and not crcnulate; veins 3 and 5 

 I'rora near angle of cell; fi from upper angle; D from 10 anastomosing 

 with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins .3, 4 from 

 angle of cell; o obsolescent from just below middle of discocellulars; fi, 7 

 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



Sect. I. Antennas of male serrate. 



A. Fore wing without rufous patch at tornus. 



a. Fore wing with antemedial rufous patcli on costa. 



a^. Fore wing with the discoidal patcii including the reni- 

 form which is defined by rufous and constricted at 



middle ariaucla. 



V. Fore wing with the discoidal patch including the reni- 

 forra which is golden green with a rufous line in 



middle territans. 



h. Fore wing without antemedial rufous patch on costa houardi. 



B. Fore wing with rufous patch at tornus arizona. 



4587. Chalcopasta arianda. 

 Tlusia arianda, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 329, pi. 30, f. 1 1 (1889). 



$ . Head and thorax white tinged with rufous ; palpi, antenna?, 

 terminal half of patagia, and metathorax rufous ; pectus, legs, and 

 abdomen whitish suffused with rufous. Fore wing brilliant 

 metallic golden green ; the costal area whitish suffused with rufous, 

 narrowing to apex, expanding into a quadrate patch in cell before 

 middle and a discoidal patch, angled inwards on median nervure 

 and including the reniform, which is dcfiuod by rufous, constricted 

 at middle and with some golden scales on its inner edge ; the base 



