220 NOCTriDiE. 



below cell and at vein 1 ; a fine rufous terminal line and sometimes 

 a patcli on middle of termen ; cilia whitish tinged with rufous and 

 iiitersected with dark brown. Hind wing whitish suffused with 

 rufous especially on terminal area ; cilia Avhite. Underside of fore 

 wing fuscous, the costal and terminal areas ochreous white ; hind 

 wing wliite. 



Hub. U.IS.A., Arizona, Prescott {Kunze), 1 5 , E.rp. 40 millim. 



*4500. Chalcopasta arizona. 



riiisla arizona, French, Can. Eiit. sxi. p. IGl (1889); Ottolengui, Can. 

 Ent. XXX. p. J06 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 248. 



d . Head and tliorax purple-brown mixed with ochreous. the 

 crests darter at tijis; abdomen whitish tinged Avith brown. Fore 

 wing brilliant metallic gold ; the costa narrowly purple-brown ; a 

 small triangular purple-brown patch from costa at base to inner 

 margin before middle ; a quadrate antemedial patch from costa to 

 median nerrure ; a subquadrate patch from costa in and beyond 

 end of cell, extending to near apex ; patches on termen at middle 

 and tornus ; cilia chequered whitish and purple-brown. Hind 

 wing whitish A\ith a fine dark terminal line. 



Ilab. U.S.A., Arizona. E.vj). 3b millim. This species is unknoAvn 

 to me. 



Sect. II. Antenna; of male minutely ciliated. 



A. Fore wing purple-grey witli patches of golden green. 



a. Hind wing wliite with subterminal dark shade jiferoc/ia/cea. 



b. Hind wing brown. 



a'. Fore wing with subterminal golden green band con- 

 fluent with the oblique band from middle of cell to 



tornus acaiiiha. 



lA. Fore wing with the oblique golden green band only. 

 a-. Fore wing witli the oblique band narrow and 



elliptical below the cell chalcotoxa. 



b". Fore wing with the oblique band broad and 



quadrate below the cell acema. 



B. Fore wing silvery wliite with ante- and postmedial rufous 



bands ccehelei. 



4o91. Chalcopasta pterochalcea. (Plate CXLVIII. fig. 7.) 



Basilodes pterochalcca, Dyar, Pr. Ent. Soc. Wash. xi. p. 24 (1909). 



d . Head and tegulae grey mixed with reddish brown, the latter 

 with pale tips ; thorax dark brown mixed with grey ; abdomen 

 whitish suffused with rufous. Fore wing metallic brassy; the 

 costal edge grey mixed with red-brown expanding into an irregular 

 brown-edged patch on discocellulars, then narrowing to a point 

 before apex ; the base of inner margin grey and brown expanding 

 into a sharp triangular patch before middle extending neaidy to 

 cell ; a subterminal series of slight brown spots excurved below 

 vein 7 and at middle ; cilia grey and red-brown. Hind wing white 



