634 



NOCTUIDJE. 



6031. Conochares altera. (Plate CLXIX. fig. 14.) 



Tomacontia altera, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxix. p. 209 (1903). 



c? . Head, thorax, and abdomen pure white ; palpi at tips and 

 antennae rufous ; fore legs in front, mid tibiae, and the tarsi tinged 

 with rufous; anal tuft tinged with ochreous. Fore wing with the 

 basal half silvery white : a slight oblique antemedial dark striga 

 below costa; terminal half white suffused with brownish grey, 

 defined on inner side by the blackish medial line with some rufous 

 suffusion beyond it, angled outwards in cell to the reuiform and 

 slightly in submedian fold ; reniform grey with white annulus and 

 white striga in centre, elliptical ; postmedial line faint, curved, 

 whitish, with white suffusion before and be vond it at costa; sub- 

 terminal line white with a faint olive tiuge before it and minute 

 black marks above and below vein 6, slightly excurved below vein 7 

 and at middle and incurved below vein 3 ; a black terminal line ; 

 cilia white with dark patches at apex, discal fold, and tornus. 

 Hind wing white, the terminal area suffused with brown from apex 

 to submedian fold ; cilia white. Underside of fore wing brown, 

 the inner area white, the costa white except towards base. 



Hob. U.S.A., California, San Diego ( Wright), 1 S , New Mexico, 

 Hot Springs, Arizona. Exp. 28 millim. 





6032. Conochares elegantula. 



Thalpochares elegantula, Harv. Can. Ent. viii. p. 55 (1876) ; Smith, Cat. 



Noct. N. Am. p. 300. 

 Tarache semiopaca, Grote, Bull. Geog. Geol. Surv. Terr. iv. p. 182 (1878). 



Head and thorax pure white ; palpi and antennae reddish brown ; 

 legs tinged with red-brown, the fore tibiae and tarsi brown ringed 



Fig. 196. — Conochares elegantula, S . %. 



with white ; abdomen white, the anal tuft tinged with yellowish. 

 Fore wing with the basal half pure white, the costal edge brownish ; 

 a subbasal brown point in cell ; a slight medial blackish line, ex- 

 curved in cell and slightly in submedian fold, followed by a broad 

 red-brown band expanding at inner margin to tornus ; reniform 

 blackish defined by white, elliptical, a silvery blue patch above it 

 and a sinuous band from its inner edge to inner margin on the 

 brown area; terminal area yellowish white; subterminal line 



