CHALCOPASTA. — CENTEOGONE. 



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area. Underside of lore wing sufi'used with brown except the 

 costn ; hind wing pure white. 



llab. U.S.A., Kansas. Arg;is Mts, (Itileif), iu U.S. Nat. Mus., 

 California. E.vp. 32 niillim. 



Genus CENTEOGONE, nov. 



Ty]ie, C. rhloroch)y.vi. 



Proboscis aborted, small ; palpi obliquely porrect, extending to just beyond 

 froris, the 2nd joint moderately scaled, the iird short; frons with corneous 

 prominence with raised edges and central process, a large corneous plate below 

 frons ; eyes large, round ; antennaj of male bipectinate with moderate branches 

 ro apex; thorax clothed ahnost entirely with scales, the pro- and metathorax 

 with small spreading crests ; fore tibi;e short with curved claw on inner side at 

 extremity, the mid and hind tibire smoothly scaled; abdomen without crests. 

 Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and hardly 

 crenulate ; veins 3 and 6 from near angle of cell ; (^ from upper angle; 9 from 

 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with 

 veins ?>, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from below middle of disco- 

 cellulars ; 6, 7 shortly stalked ; 8 anastomosing witli the cell to near middle. 



4o9G. Centrogoue chlorochrysa, n. sp. 



(^ . Head, tegulne, and legs ochreous white mixed witli nifons : 

 thorax ochreous white ; abdomen ochreous white slightly tinged with 

 rufous at middle of dorsum and on ventral surface. Fore wing- 

 pale golden green, the extreme base and costal edges ochreous 

 white thickly irrorated with rufous ; antemedial line re])resented 

 by slight dark points on the veins ; orbicular very small, round, 

 with ochreous white centre defined by fuscous ; reniform with 



Fig. 85. — Ceniragonc chlorochrysa, (J. }• 



rufous centre surrounded by small rufous fuscous-edged spots ; 

 postmedial line represented by an oblique series of dark points on 

 the veins from vein 7 to inner margin, the subtcrminal line by 

 points on veins 7, 6, 4 ; a fine waved brown terminal line with 

 black points iti the interspaces ; cilia red-brown at base, chequered 

 red-brown and white at tips and with fine dark line through them. 

 Hind wing pure white, the cilia brownish from apex to vein 2; the 

 underside with the costal area irrorated Avith rufous. 



Hah. Transvaal, Johannesburg {Cholmley), 1 S type, Gcmsbok- 

 fontein (Janse), 4 c? ; Ouange RivEii Colony, Bloemfontein (Eclrrs- 

 lei/), 1 J . A'.?7>. 34 millini. 



