686 NOCTUID.E. 



* 



rufous at apex and discal fold. Hind wing semihyaline white, the 

 termen slightly tinged with rufous; the underside with the costa 

 tinged with ochreous. 



Bab. U.S.A., California, Argus Mts., 1 $ co-type, Walter's 

 Station, Arizona, Phoenix, Yuma Co. Exp. 24 millim. 



6035. Conochares catalina. (Plate CLXIX. fig. 17.) 

 Thalpochares catalina. Smith, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. xiv. p. 29 (1906). 



$ . Head and thorax white ; palpi at tips and antennas brownish ; 

 fore tibiae aud tarsi brownish ringed with white ; abdomen yel- 

 lowish white. Fore wing creamy white ; reniform small with 

 faint brownish annulus ; a faint brownish medial band, oblique to 

 the reniform, then inwardly oblique ; a diffused brownish terminal 

 band. Hind wing white, the termen tinged with brown except 

 towards tornus. 



Hob. U.S.A., Arizona, Phoenix (Kanze), 1 rf . Exp. 22 millim. 



6036. Conochares hutsoni. (Plate CLXIX. fig. 18.) 



Thalpochares hutsoni, Smith, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. xiv. p. 28 (1906). 



Head, thorax, and abdomen creamy white, the last tinged with 

 ochreous ; palpi brownish at tips ; antennas brownish ringed with 

 white ; fore tibiae and the tarsi brownish ringed with white. Fore 

 wing creamy white tinged with ochreous ; a faint diffused brownish 

 ochreous antemedial line excurved from costa to median nervure, 

 then incurved; a black point in middle of cell; the reniform 

 blackish with faint white annulus, small, round ; a faint curved 

 brownish ochreous medial shade; postmedial line rather diffused, 

 brownish, obliquely curved from costa to lower edge of reniform ; 

 then incurved and approximated to the medial shade ; an ochreous 

 brown shade before termen, which is white with a punctiform black 

 line except towards apex and tornus ; cilia white. Hind wing 

 white tinged with brownish ochreous, the cilia white ; the under- 

 side white, the costal area tinged with ochreous. 



Hob. U.S.A.. Arizona, Yuma Co., 1 J , 1 °, Phoenix (Jvunze), 

 1 2 • E&P- 20 millim. 



Genus TARACHIDIA. 



Type. 



Tarachidia, Hmpsn. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1898, p. 248 flavibasis. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely porrect, short, slender ; frons with 

 rounded prominence with a slight raised rim at extremity and triangular 

 corneous plate below it ; eyes large, round ; antenna* of male minutely ciliated ; 

 thorax elothed almost entirely with scales, the prothorax without crest, the 

 metathorax with deeumbent crest; tibiae smoothly scaled ; abdomen without 

 crests. Fore wing rather narrow, the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved 

 and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle : 

 9 from 10 anastomosing, with 8 to form a longitudinally narrow areole : 



