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line; a terminal black line interrupted by buff points on veins. Secondaries dull 

 greyish brown. Expanse 24 mm. 



Habitat. — Sao Paulo, S. E. Brazil. 



Tarache praxina. — Head and collar white. Thorax pale olivaceous. 

 Abdomen buff. Primaries white, mottled with light olivaceous green, leaving 

 basal, inner, median, outer and suhterminal white lines; spots white, with a few 

 olivaceous scales ; the suhterminal forming a streak from apes to outer line then 

 curving and nearly straight to inner margin ; fringe pale, spotted with olivaceous. 

 Secondaries whitish ; a small discal point ; faint outer, suhterminal and terminal 

 olivaceous shade. Exjianse 23 mm. 



Habitat. — Castro, Parana. 



Tarache caterva. — Body grey ; black irro rations on abdomen. Prima- 

 ries grey, thinly irrorated with black and brown ; inner line geminate, dark, 

 filled in with huff, angled on sul)costal ; a tine median line, followed by a brown 

 shade to reniform and outer line below it; orbicular and reniform outlined with 

 black; outer line geminate, filled in with buff; a brown space on costa before 

 apex; suhterminal small dark spots; terminal black spots ; fringe grey, with a 

 buff line at base. Secondaries dark grey; a suhterminal interrui)ted black line. 

 Expanse 19 mm. 



Habitat. — Castro, Parana. 



Tarache villica. — Head and thorax dark brown. Abdomen and second- 

 aries dark brown, almost black. Primaries blackish grey ; the outer margin and 

 a median space below cell and above subniedian golden brown ; basal and inner 

 lines fine, black, geminate; orbicular small, golden brown; reniform inwardly 

 edged with a golden brown lunule; outer line fine, black, partly shaded with 

 grey ; a lunular dark suhterminal line. Expanse 22 mm. 



Habitat. — Sao Paulo, Brazil. 



Tarache? pyraliiia. — Head and thorax mottled grey and brown. Ab- 

 domen greyish brown. Primaries silvery white; the lines thick, heavily irro- 

 rated with green, also the cell; basal and inner lines dentate; median line 

 angled before reniform; outer line dentate curving beyond cell, then inwardly 

 oblique; suhterminal suffusing with marginal spots at apex and on middle of 

 outer margin; orbicular small, white; reniform narrow, upright, divided by a 

 black line; a terminal black line; fringe white, spotted with grey. Secondaries 

 whiti.sh yellow, irrorated with grey on basal half; outer margin and subtermi- 

 ually the veins dark also; fringe yellow, spotted with grey. Underneath the 

 primaries are black, with marginal yellow spots; the secondaries yellowish, with 

 median and suhterminal dark shades; a terminal dark line; veins terminally 

 dark. Expansa 30 mm. 



Habitat. — Guadalajara, Mexico. 



Tarache violetta.— Palpi ochreous brown. Head and thorax dark 

 brown. Abdomen and secondaries dull greyish brown. Primaries dark brown ; 

 an interrupted lilacine white line from costa at one-third from base, abruptly 



TRANS. AM. KNT. HOC. XXX. JUNE. 1904. 



